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… on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of … within the strict tenets of Dutch Calvinism. Kruger fought in the Battle at Vegkop in 1836, where they fought against Mzilikazi. Shortly after …

… Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil. President … vendor.  At the age of 14, he got his first formal job in a copper processing factory as a lathe operator. Lula …

… troops at the beginning of World War I Commissioned in the Royal Engineers, in 1886 Kitchener was appointed governor of the British Red Sea territories and subsequently became commander in chief of the Egyptian army in 1892. In 1898 he crushed the …

… Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town , Western Cape . Despite a very poor … of Cape Town where studied where she completed her B.A. in 1947. Kies began her teaching career at Athlone High School in 1948, the same year the National Party  (NP) came into …

… 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth … educated by private European tutors. His father passed on in 1906 and was taken under the wing of his uncle Menelik II … 2014]|Libcom.org, 1935-1980s: The reign of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia , from Libcom.org [online] available at …

… South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high … earning power. For seventeen years she held that position in Vienna, where she reigned as first coloratura of the famed …

… Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi … way to Fort Hare, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1944, later obtaining advanced degrees in anthropology, … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… Mthuthuzeli Tom was born on 7 September 1959, in the village of Mpongo outside East London, and was one of … father was a factory worker at a battery assembling plant in East London. Tom was exposed to the union movement at a … Commercial High he attended union meetings and took part in strategising sessions. After matriculating in 1980, he …

… D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the …

… Bernard Gcwensa was born in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary … school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at Collies School in Tugela near Pomeroy in the Msinga area. He did not receive …

… Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei . After the death of his first wife, … When she was 13, she was sent to a boarding school in Mt. Authur. She remained there until she passed her Junior …

… was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West Province].  While he … brothers, who were leaders of the freedom movement in the Transvaal. Kathrada’s political work began in 1941, at …

… Alan Robert Lipman was born on 6 June, 1925 in Johannesburg into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman … joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1948 because “it was then the only organisation where …

… Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and … parliamentarians. Little is known of his early years in the party. However, it does appear that he did not make a … remarkable impression. Momberg was to become more visible in the late 1970s and through to his passing away in 2011. …

… Gordon Mulholland was born in Cape Town on 30 April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney … home. She worked as an usherette at the Alhambra Theatre in Cape Town, doing three shifts a day. Mulholland was sent … childhood. He then attended Marist Brothers College in Rondebosch. He left school without matriculating.  At the …

… Daniel Simon Letanka was born at Saulspoort in the Rustenburg district of the Transvaal in 1874 and attended the Native College in Grahamstown in the Cape. Hoping to raise money to continue … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - …

… Desai, a  Transvaal Indian Congress  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. … Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security Police in 1971, used her home at 12 Harold Street, Roodepoort, as an underground base. This was a second home to Timol, and in return for running errands, Desai would allow Timol use of …

… George Christopher Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled in London. His family, silk weaving traders, came to the Cape in 1826 and settled in Grahamstown. When he was twelve his …

… John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four … Hannah Priscilla Edwards. He went to Cranbrook School in Kent and then went on to study at Sidney Sussex College at … chapter 3 of volume 3, part 1, of The Road to Democracy in South Africa; published by the South African Democracy and …

… Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After … elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the  Bantu World,  working his way up to political columnist, in which capacity he became a supporter of the Africanist …

…   Nxumalo was born in Magud, Natal in 1952. He is a self-taught sculptor who has participated in numerous group exhibitions.  He won an award in 1972 at …

… King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He … at Khethomthandayo and received formal instruction in traditional Zulu customs. In 1968 his father died and a regent was appointed to look …

… The Early Years Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in the small hamlet of Bishops Stortford, England. He was the … and his father, that the business opportunities offered in South Africa would be able to provide Rhodes with a more promising future than staying in England. At the tender age of 17 Rhodes arrived in Durban …

… Peter Mokaba was born on 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school … He nevertheless managed to complete matric on his own in 1978 and then went on to enrol with the University of the North in 1980. He was detained under the Terrorism Act in 1977 and …

… Harold Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached to a law …

… Raymond Mhlaba was born in Mazoka village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings died in childhood. Mhlaba attended school at Healdtown,a Methodist …

… Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa) in 1997 and completed his B.Comm Honours degree in 2002. … at www.news24.com   [Accessed 07 December 2011]|Who’s Who SA (2011). ‘ Gwede Mantahse: Secretary-General of the ANC ’ …

… Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai was born on 10 April 1932 in Durban. He grew up as an Indian but was "reclassified" Coloured in 1957. His father was an accountant born in India and his mother was classified as Malay.As a teenager …

… Phumzile John Gomomo was born on a farm in Adelaide on 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late … Primary School and Marry Mount High School. He left school in standard 6 (grade 8), because of family poverty, and … Gastrow, S. (1992). Who’s Who in South African Politics, no 4 , Johannesburg: …

… Article first published in The Sunday Independent  January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam … night at his Queenstown, Eastern Cape home, will go down in the annals of South African music as one of the jazz pioneers who played a pivotal role in the birth and evolution of our kind of jazz. History will …