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1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop…

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1911

Sam Kahn

… Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South…

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1926-2008

Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa

… 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…

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1936

Moritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein

… Manu Herbstein was born in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape …

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade … to challenge:…

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1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… 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…

B-0008788

1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… 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…

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1956-1985

Fort Calata

… 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…

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1938-2016

Judith Mason

… 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…

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1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… 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…

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1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… 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 …

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… 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…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… Ndeutala Hishongwa was born in 1952 in Okalili, northwest Namibia. She trained as a nurse and in 1974 joined SWAPO-in-exile in Zambia. She was sent to ……

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1859-1936

Meshach Pelem

… Meshach Pelem was born in Mxumbu near King William's Town in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in…

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1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… 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…

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… 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…

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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. Kekana’s father was a carpenter and lay … instructed Kekana at the carving…

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1942-1985

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

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

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… 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…

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1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… 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…

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Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

… 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…

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… formal education, spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the … sixteen children. Upon the annexation of…

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

… 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…

B-0007768

1935-2009

Cassim Saloojee

… 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…

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1937-2002

Justice Gizenga Mpanza

… 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…

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1934-2006

Vusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make

… 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…

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1926-1995

Joe Slovo

… Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg . Slovo…

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1941-1985

Judson Diza Kuzwayo

… 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)…

B-0077958

1954

Wendy Schwegmann

… 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 …

B-0008998

1906-1967

George John Golding

… George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a … school principal, editor, involved in politics …

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