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1920-1977

Elmon Malele

… Elmon Malele was born in Mapulaneng in the Limpopo Province (Transvaal) in 1920. Malele came to Johannesburg in 1943, and stayed in … National Congress (ANC)…

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1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only … grew up near Stellenbosch, then Tamboerskloof and later in Kommetjie,…

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1943

Sindiwe Magona

… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of … later won a scholarship…

B-0008372

1878-1942

Paul De Groot

… Paul de Groot was born in Surabaya, Indonesia on 11 January 1878. Paul de Groot … received training for the stage at the  Toneelschool  in Amsterdam. His…

B-0007982

1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed … to become a teacher and eventually an…

B-0007869

1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

… Jacob Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started … about boxing that he decided to turn professional in 1979. At a…

B-0008489

1926

Johannes Jacobus Degenaar

… Johannes Jacobus Degenaar was born on 7 March 1926 in Ladysmith. As a young man he was sent to the Cape to study … University of Stellenbosch, where he…

B-0007981

1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (Bra Ike) was born in Ga-Makgato (Blouberg Municipality) on 26 February 1931.  … his Standard 6 (Grade Eight) at Uitkyk Secondary…

B-0068219

1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu…

B-0008833

1952

Gert Petrus Swart

… Swart was born in Durban in 1952. After matriculating from Queensborough High School in 1969, he enrolled at the Natal Technical College, Durban, … Co…

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1809-1882

Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman

… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at … Merriman was appointed curate of Street…

B-0008547

1930-2014

Nelson “Nana” Mahomo

… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s…

B-0008383

1932-2012

Sister Bernard Ncube

… Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho , where she received a diploma in Theology and in … Catholic…

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1929-2000

Esme Bodenstein

… Esme Bodenstein was born on 6 July 1929 in Johannesburg . She trained as a physiotherapist at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Cape Town . There…

B-0094568

1923

James “Jobe” Hadebe

… James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant … and active member of the…

B-0008138

1926

Kesval “Kay” Moonsamy

… “Kay” Moonsamy was born on 5 July 1926. He was active in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from the mid-1940s onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer…

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1878-1941

Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke

… Simon Peter Matseke was born in Pretoria in 1878, but little is known about his early life except that … Dutch. Following the war he was employed as a…

B-0008492

1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… Ismail " Tatamkhulu Afrika"  Joubert   was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a … on 7 December 1920. His parents…

B-0065030

1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

… Andrew Michael Boraine was born in Pietermaritzburg on 18 February 1959.He is the eldest of … 1974, and the Diocesan College (Bishops) from 1975 to 1976.In…

B-0007872

1972

Leoni Marinovich

… photographer, Leonie's (nee Swanepoel) work is represented in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Johannesburg. Leoni has co- … documentary shoot for the…

B-0008448

2016

Juda Ngwenya

… Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper,…

B-0123560

1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis) was born in 1949 in Cape Town . In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National … [23 July 2012]| SAPA, (1998),…

B-0091115

1925

Tamsanqa Tasque Tshume

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations … Youth League…

B-0121649

1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931, once women were allowed degrees from…

B-0009231

1911-2002

Errol T. Shanley

… Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents and Anna Else Bernhardt born in … Member…

B-0068445

1937

Sylvia Neame

… Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, … as well as a twin sister named…

B-0095076

1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest … attended Melbourne Road Primary and Parkhill…

B-0008529

1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) from the mid-1930s to … took over the leadership. He had only…

B-0008226

Zulumathabo Zulu

… Transcendence, African Origin of Mathematics, A Woman in the Bush, The Triangle Tool of Analysis, African Origin of … Rituals, and African Mathematical…

B-0123661

1920

Marutle Flag Boshielo

… Boshielo was born to a poor family in 1920 in Phokoane village, in the Sekhukhuneland district in Northern Transvaal, now …

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