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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member … National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when it was…

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1954

Vincent Oliphant

… Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port … Methodist Primary School, and his secondary education in…

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1958

Paul Konings

… Paul Konings was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the …

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1944

Subbiah Moodley

… the African National Congress (ANC), recruits. He was born in Umgeni Road in 1944, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents … indentured workers…

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq … was an adventurer and left his family to seek his fortune in…

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set out to do:  to present to her … it all." (From Marina Grut's book T he…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and…

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1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She … her future husband, the late Harold Wolpe . They…

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1950

Peter Hain

… Peter Gerald Hain was born on 16 February in 1950 in Nairobi Kenya but he grew up in Pretoria after his south african born parents returned …

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1810-1841

Rev. George Champion

… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion … joined the American…

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1955

Gana Makabeni

… Gana Makabeni  was born in the Transkei.  He attended a Communist night school and … Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s…

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver died … as a tailoress and then started a tailoring business in Durban…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he … and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977,…

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1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee …  (ANC) from 1958…

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1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  … of Art, Durban, and he decided to advance…

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Joel Joffe

… Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Abraham … Joffe studied law at the University of the…

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1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo was born on 22 August 1924 in Omangundu near Ondangwa in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. He attended the Ongwediva…

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1926-1982

Poomoney Moodley

… Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River , Natal on 28 June 1926 to … themselves were children of Indian indentured labourers in Natal. In 1930, when Poomoney…

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1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… of the separate graduation ceremonies held at the time. In addition he edited the students newspaper, Student Call, from1955-56. Maharaj completed his BA in…

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1955

Shirley Gunn

… Gunn enrolled for a degree in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her … While studying for her Honors degree, she became involved…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern … (now known as Limpopo), at a place named…

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1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

… African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . … African…

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1916

Philemon Mathole

… Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…

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1928-2011

Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi

… secondary school education at St Peters Secondary School in Rosettenville 1947.  He then went on to Fort Hare College in the Eastern Cape, where he graduated…

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1921

Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein

… As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were … Africa , where meetings were held at…

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1963

Justice Sfiso Mkame

… Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…

B-0008568

1930-2006

Mazisi Raymond Kunene

… Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother … and later Kwa-ahluzingcondo High.  After matriculating in…

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1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… his primary school education at Mathonsi Primary School in Mandeni around 1983. He then proceeded to do his high school education at Vryheid State High…

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1945

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

… Sedibe (known as Jackie Sedibe) was born at White River in Mpumalanga . Sedibe’s mother was a domestic worker and her father (whose surname was Mdluli)…

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