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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained…

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1932-2016

Mewa Ramgobin

… in Greyville, Durban. He enrolled at the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal-UKZN) and was active in the National Union of South African…

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within…

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal , a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an interest in art as a child, and by the age of…

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1931-2018

Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'

… 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist … In 1956, Boraine was ordained and received…

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and … French polishing and the buying and…

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His…

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1923-2013

Denis Mayer

… Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the … Light Horse unit in the Anglo-Boer War . On…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… and he credited him for instilling in him an informed love of books. At the age of 16, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT…

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1910-1977

Percy John "Jack" Hodgson

… born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John … until she remarried a few years later…

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress  (ANC) from December 1952 … was the most widely known and…

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1954

William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr

… Nassau High School, Hofmeyr enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he completed a BA in Economics … . After this, Hofmeyr went on to join the…

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting … support him. This…

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1936-2012

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander

… Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and … maternal grandmother) had been freed off…

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Thomas G. Karis

… Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South African liberation…

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1868-1913

King Dinuzulu

… Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his … wife. His father's descent was English and his mother…

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1937

Adriaan Vlok

… where he matriculated in 1956. Following three months of military training in Pretoria during 1957, he began work for the Department of Justice in the…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…

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1945

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

… born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up. Most of his schooling took place at the…

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1893-1947

Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan

… Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold Medallist of Dublin University and became a D. Litt. in 1918…

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1932

Mimi Coertse

… vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and earning power. For seventeen years she … position in Vienna, where she reigned…

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… his political awareness was formed under the influence of his English teacher, Ben Kies.  After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for…

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1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was born of a musical family. Her grandfather and…

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1957

Saleem Badat

… Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and … from Boston University (United States),…

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1928-2023

Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

… Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s … District, KwaZulu. His mother was the daughter of King…

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1925-1983

Cassim Mohammed Bassa

… was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a businessman, and his wife Fathima. … to work as a research…

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1954

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  Walter  and  ……

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town…

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