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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine…

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1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… Manonmony Pillay was born in Pretoria , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) on 30 November 1908. … Her family was originally from the Thanjavur district in India and…

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five … piano teacher. He matriculated at Bonnievale High School in 1961, after which he…

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1928-1980

Kate Dinkwetsi Molale

… 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 …

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth…

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1927-2005

Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse

… (better known as Allan) was born on 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven … Hendrickse, both school teachers. Hendrickse was…

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1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High school up to what was standard 8 in those days. Together with…

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1917

Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko

… Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in …

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1893-1975

Max Yergan

… Max Yergan was born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he … and Springfield College. From about 1920 to 1936 he lived in South…

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1900-1963

Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe

… Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father, John Knox Bokwe , in…

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J. Congress M. Mbata

… J. Congress M. Mbata was born in Johannesburg in 1919 and studied at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1804-1856

Chief Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the …

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in…

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Jean Powell

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art … College, London and for a one year’s post Diploma in two dimensional and…

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1918-1979

Suliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie

… Born in 1918, he was a businessman in Evaton and played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier … A businessperson, played…

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Dilizantaba Mji

… Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then … at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he graduated in 1952…

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1924-2002

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

… Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, … Worcester where she attained her Senior…

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1945

Graça Simbine Machel

… Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister … it possible…

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1960

David Dabede Mabuza

… David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High … Teacher’s Certificate from Mngwenya College of…

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1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… her conversion to Catholicism and her participation in the slave trade. Angolan nationalist historians would … recent African feminists [1] . Njinga was born…

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1961

Dali Tambo

… When Tambo was a baby, his parents were exiled. He arrived in England on 15 September 1960 with his mother. Tambo attended Lancing College in West Sussex in…

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1931-2012

Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson

… Justice Arthur Chaskalson was born in Johannesburg on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in…

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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation … A son to a farm worker, Mabizela did his primary education in Port Elizabeth where he also…

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1949

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

… University of Zululand . She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Science (BSc) and left the country in 1976 to complete her MB ChB at the University of Bristol…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… worked as a cook at Tolstoy Farm and Thambi Naidoo was in charge of marketing and sanitation. As she grew up, her … used to tell her stories of the struggle…

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. … joined the underground African National…

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1860-1930

Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo

… Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu,India, had…

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1871-1952

Dr. Hans Merensky

… Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and … passed with honours. He completed his practical training…

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1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki…

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1812-1893

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

… Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen was born in 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near…

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