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1957

Kate O’Regan

… up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980, an LL.M. from the…

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1872-1940

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman

… 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to South Africa with his … by their hostility he in time won the…

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1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

… (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. He was the owner of an eating-house in the city, which in due course became a … for black politicians. In 1933 he was a…

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1909-1985

Moses Josiah Madiba

… November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. Although … from the South African…

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1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall … words, she acquired "an…

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1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His father was … man who decided to move to South…

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1897-1962

Richard Granville Baloyi

… Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a taxi owner. In…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

… Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian, Coloured mother and a Muslim shopkeeper. He … by his father Yusuf Howa,…

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1929-2017

Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada

… Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr. Yusuf Dadoo  and the Cachalia brothers, who were leaders of the freedom movement in the Transvaal…

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1932-2002

Soromini Kallichurum

… kwaZulu-Natal ). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at the ‘non-White’ section of the University of Natal. She…

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1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

… England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, Georgiana…

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1953

Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

… Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953  Durban . She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone … She obtained a BA in…

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1931-1998

Justice John Mowbray Didcott

… (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in … president from 1952 to 1954. He was also…

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1918-2000

Ismail Chota Meer

… (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His … Sastri College in 1939. Meer studied Law…

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1861-1951

Sefako Mapogo Makgatho

… Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe Josiah Makgatho of the Makgatho chieftaincy at Ha Mphahlele. Sekhukhune was … the…

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1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later … his undergraduate and Honours degrees at the…

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1870-1950

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

… Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in English, and he only entered school at the age of 12, when his elder…

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1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal . Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation…

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Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern…

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1961

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

… the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) .  He co-founded the … in 1983 and was elected as…

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1929-2026

Leon Levy

… Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, he was educated…

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1953

Penny Siopis

… Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the…

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1934

Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu

… was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu.  He attended the local primary … while a pupil at St John…

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1952

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

… (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew … Sibasa, Limpopo …

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1867-1946

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

… a younger brother, William, and three or more sisters, two of them named Mina and Joyce. It seems they were all given … was given his father’s middle-name,…

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1915-1974

Michael Alan Harmel

… Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant … in Marxism-Leninism and deeply devoted to the liberation of all…

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the … is appropriate because it is a modern…

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1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial … however, is that Queen Njinga's rise to power as a woman of…

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1952

Glenn Moss

… Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He … attended Pretoria Boys High. On…

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