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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… 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,…

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1850-1916

Lord Kitchener

… 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…

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1926-2017

Helen Kies

… 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…

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1882-1960

Mary Fitzgerald

… Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to…

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1913-2011

Ilse Naude

…  Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near Caledon . After completing secondary … Illse proceeded to study for her…

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Nombuso Mchunu

… On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for … permanent work. Her exposure to union documents resulted in her…

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June Rose Nala

… June Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

… 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, ……

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He … at Khethomthandayo and received formal…

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1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… 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…

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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… 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…

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1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… 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…

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1959-2010

Mthuthuzeli Tom

… 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…

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1874-1959

Daniel Francois Malan

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

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1874-1932

Daniel Simon Letanka

… 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…

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1814-1893

George Christopher Cato

… 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…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… 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…

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1938-2011

Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg

… 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…

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

… 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…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family … 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group…

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1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… also known as James Stuart, is most noted for his role in exposing brutality at African National Congress camps in 1984 , which culminated into the ‘ Stuart…

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Gwede Mantashe

… 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 …

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1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… 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…

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1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… 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…

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… 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 … at the…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… 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…

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… Tielman Roos was born in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South … when he was only 23 years old. He opened a law practice in Cape Town, but…

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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… Johanna Hendrina Strydom.  Johanna Scheepers was born in 1915. During the depression of the 1930s Scheepers and her … the case with many Afrikaans women, she…

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… 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…

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