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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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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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1956

Patric Tariq Mellet

… Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. … people from what was regarded as a…

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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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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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1826-1884

King Cetshwayo

… King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…

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1929-2008

Billy Nair

… Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten) Nair, … six months for a dairy, but was fired…

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…

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1836-1914

Joseph Chamberlain

… cabinet. A successful businessman, he became the mayor of Birmingham, using his term to implement policies regarded as being ahead of their time. He was…

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1959

Mzwakhe Mbuli

… for the young Mbuli.  After experiencing the death of his fellow students, Mbuli’s school went on strike and he … Mbuli refers to this event as “God’s…

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1871-1946

John Langalibalele Dube

… John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February … sun’. Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha…

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1938

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya…

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