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… Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town , Western Cape … draughtsman. During the 1980s, Lombard worked in the audio-visual department of a large construction …

… by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal (North-West Province). At … Sono and was recruited to his team, Jomo Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented South Africa in the first international game against Cameroon in Durban. …

… Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little … missionary, Reverend S. C. Pixley, took an interest in him and arranged for him to go the Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts in the USA. Seme did his BA degree at …

… Richard  Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an  African National …  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in the Ermelo district in 1907, the son of a tenant farmer. …

… Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s sextet. She …

… Elliot Mfaxa was born August 26, 1926 at KwaGusha Farm in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to … earned a teaching certificate at Clarkebury Institution in 1948-49. where he became involved in politics and met P. K. Leballo. In 1949 he was recruited …

… Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in Cape Town … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964 , Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - …

… Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina … father moved the family out of Free State after the racism in the  area they were living became intolerable, eventually settling in Sophiatown. Victims of the infamous Sophiatown forced …

… Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin … was ten. He was raised as a Catholic. Cronin graduated in 1966 from St Joseph's College, then served nine months in …

… Born Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South … She matriculated from the Pretoria High School for Girls in 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a BA Degree in Fine Art. She …

… Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in …

… He was not only a man of religion, but was deeply involved in education, sport and politics. Sigamoney was born in 1888 after his indentured labourer grandparents arrived in South Africa in 1877. His grandfather, Frances Sigamoney … L., (2011), ‘ Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa ’ fromthe Industrial Worker , May …

… Stephanie Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was … and the Pretoria High School for Girls.  Faure had a post in a firm of attorneys and was at the same time trained in English elocution by the famous theatrical figure Muriel …

… Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice (nee … was given the opportunity to study rather than sell fruit in the market. In 1954 she won a scholarship to the well …

… Andrew Murray was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew … Utrecht the Netherlands for further theological studies. In 1848 at the age of nineteen he experienced a conversion to Christianity. He returned to the Cape in 1848 after having been ordained as a Minister as The …

… Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape ) …

… homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. Kekana’s father was a carpenter and lay … instructed Kekana at the carving workshop until 1938. In 1939, the carving centre was closed unexpectedly. Kekana … , where he struggled to sell his work. After five years in the city, he accepted an invitation from Sister Pauline to …

… of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1936 to 1949. In 1956, when Fort was born, Canon Calata was one of the accused in the Treason Trial . Fort Calata and his wife Nomonde met in 1974 in Cradock. In 1979, the couple lived in Dimbaza, …  [Accessed 8 April 2011] Carlin, J. (1993), SA general gave 'order to kill'  from the UK Independent , 11 …

… Wendy Schwegmann was born in 1954 in Zululand, where she spent her youth. She has a diploma in Interior Design from Natal Technical college and is a …

… Diza Kuzwayo was born August 25,1941 at Adams Mission in rural Natal and completed his junior certificate at the … joined the African National Congress (ANC) as a teenager in 1957,he organized community groups in the KwaMashu area of Durban,then joined an Umkhonto we …

… The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the … and the Transvaal denied all non-whites the right to vote. In Natal, nearly all non-whites were not allowed to vote. In the Cape Province, an important number of Black and Coloured men were allowed to vote under a …

… Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf … he worked as a jewellery salesman, and had to rent rooms in his boss’ house. This is because it was difficult for …

… after completing Standard 6 because he was ‘too old’. In 1954, he went to Durban looking for employment. When he first arrived in Durban in 1954, he went to Lakhani House, where the trade union …

… Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the … of an African Methodist  Episcopal minister,Make grew up in Mohlakeng township of Randfontein.His family subsequently … 91 ”“ 93| Sapa (2006)  “Former PAC leader Vusi Make dies in Pretoria” . Mail and Guardian [online] Available at: …

… George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a …

… Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few … started school. Because Ebrahim's parents had difficulty in getting him a place in the overcrowded schools, he only … Evidence in mitigation of sentence, State vs Maseko and two others.| …

… Born in 30 November  1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian Congress …

… formal education, spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the … sixteen children. Upon the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877, he moved to the Vredefort district in the Orange Free State, then to Weltevreden near the …

… Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl , in the Western Cape . She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a multi-racial school in Paarl called Bethanie School. Her father, Henry Josephs, …

… Kate Dinkwetsi Molale was born in 1928 and died in 1980 after a car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the …