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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…

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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…

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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…

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… was an infant when his father passed away, which resulted in his brother Jongintaba Dalindyebo acting as King. … at the ‘Great Place’ Mqhekezweni when his…

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1897-1962

Richard Granville Baloyi

… Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became…

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1927-2011

Elsie Nair

… Elsie Nair (nee Goldstone) was born in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal ) in 1927. After completing her primary school education, she joined her mother…

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1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… Jayaseelen “Jay” Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham … Naidoo matriculated from Sastri College,…

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1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954, on a farm in Tygerhoek near Caledon. An outstanding intellectual, … of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’…

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2006

Daniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi

… Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto.  He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high … 2011|Mail and…

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1974

Wim Botha

… Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban…

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1963

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane

… Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six…

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… International award winning filmmaker Junaid Ahmed was born in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary…

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 3 January 1892. After his father … died, Tolkien and his mother went to…

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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…

B-0100311

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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1947

Ben Skosana

… Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from … pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier University in Canada, where…

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The Taung Child

… In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart …

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1947

Ben M. Skosana

… Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from … pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier University in Canada, where…

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… as the National-minded Bloc. He was active as a young man in efforts to revive the ANC in the late 1930s, was chosen Transvaal provincial secretary in 1938,…

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1949-2009

Henry Eric Isaacs

… Henry Eric Isaacs was born March 21 in 1949,He grew up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His … an Afrikaner,one grandmother Zulu,two aunts…

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1910-1969

Florence Matomela

… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx control regulations…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… Stephen Lee was arrested in 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he … African nationality as a…

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1918-1998

Mark Shope

… Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a … miner, and Railway and…

B-0009039

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…

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1954

William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr

… as Advocate Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa [i] . After matriculating from … the University of Cape Town (UCT) where…

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