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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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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…

B-0068312

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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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…

B-0067328

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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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…

B-0067978

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…

B-0008557

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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Pauline Podbrey

… Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in  Durban  in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come…

B-0068314

1950

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

… Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as … his father was headmaster. When his…

B-0008985

1957

Kate O’Regan

… Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum…

B-0008849

1917-1985

Jordan Kush Ngubane

… Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in Ladysmith, he entered Adams…

B-0068246

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…

B-0068268

1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but … guitar, and by chance he came across a…

B-0094958

1951

Patricia De Lille

… a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children in an Afrikaans…

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1922-1998

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji

… Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth,…

B-0008487

1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High … of Arts at the University Witwatersrand…

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1852-1918

Schalk Burger

… 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During this period he … Claudina de Villiers. Burger was elected…

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1950

Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi

… Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg.  Selebi was the African National Congress … to the Soviet Union's World Federation of…

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Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and…

B-0123406

Ambrose Makiwane

… Ambrose Makiwane was born in Soweto. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. This, coupled with that his…

B-0069129

1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the … his Junior Certificate at the Fred Clark…

B-0067967

1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now … secondary schooling at St Ansgars Institution,…

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895.  His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the …

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