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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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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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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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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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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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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…

B-0008195

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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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… (Mangena apparently used her father's name for a surname. In all her correspondence she is referred to as 'Victoria … did train Africans as nurses Victoria…

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1965

Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko

… Moroka. Mazibuko then attended Marianhill High School, in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal , and completed her high school … at the University of South Africa (UNISA)…

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1947-2010

Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo

… was born on 28 October 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing career in choirs and concert groups while still at school. Mhlongo…

B-0065035

1966

Jodi Bieber

… Jodi Bieber has lived in Johannesburg for the past 35 years. She studied … founded by David Goldblatt. Her photographic career began in September 1993 as a…

B-0007853

1945

Achmad Cassiem

… Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… ‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa.  However, he was more commonly … used the name Cecil Barnard until he left…

B-0068433

1804-1856

Chief Kgosi Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the …

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John Gomas

… John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of … Town branch of the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CP) in the late 1920s…

B-0008110

1919

M. J. M. Williams Shope

… M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a … miner, and Railway and Harbours worker, he became…

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1930-2015

Maggie Smith

… Maggie Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the…

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1952

Saint Mokoena

… He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He … High School were he received art classes until Standard 9. In 1977 he left school…

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