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1945-2008

Phumzile John Gomomo

… 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…

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1863-1928

Henry Reed Ngcayiya

… a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession after a few years, and became an interpreter in the…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of … education…

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted…

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1966-1987

Ashley James Kriel

… two sisters, Michel Assure and Melaney Adams. He grew up in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. Bonteheuwel is a township on the Cape Flats and was predominantly working…

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1949

Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela

… Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus , after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape . She…

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1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total,…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and moved to Pretoria … and upon…

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1924-1999

Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia

… political activism traversed national liberation struggles in two countries, namely, India and South Africa. In 1936, faced with economic hardship, his…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made … with long wires were one of his favourites…

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Richard Goldstone

… where he obtained a BA LLB degree with honours in 1962. World-renowned South African judge, Richard Goldstone has served in the most influential courts in…

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Potlako Leballo

… He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline … clients. He had his own firm, James Kantor & Partners, in…

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1952

Willis Nxumalo

…   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 …

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku was born in Durban in 1955.  A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, … the piano was chopped up to make firewood one winter…

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1960-1999

Sifiso Nkabinde

… Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a … primary school and secondary school, where he matriculated in…

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1923

Diamond Bozas

… responsible for the establishment of the TEACH Museum in Empangeni and he served on the Advisory Board of that museum. He was a primer mover in the building…

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John S. P. Motloheloa

… John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…

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1739-1793

Baron Joachim van Plettenberg

… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and … law at the University of…

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1880

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

… Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary …

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1974

Herschelle Herman Gibbs

… South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town on 23 February 1974. He completed his secondary … national cricket team, the Proteas, at the…

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Thys Dullaart

… Dullaart completed his National Diploma in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a … arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization. After serving as a…

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T W Thibedi

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and,…

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1853-1917

Dr. Leander Starr Jameson

… parents moved to London, he went to school at Goldolphin in Hammersmith. Jameson went for a medical profession at the University College Hospital, London in…

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1940

Johnson Phillip Mlambo

… Johnson Mlambo was born in Johannesburg on 22 February 1940. He did his secondary … his studies, he worked at Pretoria Pottery Cement in Jupiter in 1958…

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1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an…

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1857-1941

Baden Powell

… Charterhouse School during which time he took part in a number of activities including acting, singing and cadet corps and art. In the woods near the school…

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1897-1976

Helen Elizabeth Martins

… Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and…

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