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1927

Joseph Morolong

… Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African … African Congress of…

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1814-1882

King Sekhukhune

… men under the authority of 'appointed' headmen to work in white farms and diamonds mines. The money they earned in these employments was taxed and used to…

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1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… by his beloved family, Kunene died peacefully at his home in Madison, America.  He was 93 years old. [i] Daniel Kunene was born in Edenvale, South Africa on…

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1915-1984

Thelma Gutsche

… Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West , Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. … tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929…

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1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon…

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1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp , western Gauteng , in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters … Sect that…

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1966

Bellington Mampe

… Bellington Mampe was a Poqo activist, He died in hospital while in custody.Mr Bellington Mampe died in September 1963 after being detained for 140 days at…

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Wycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi

… the  All African Convention  (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later practised…

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1981

Isaac Mofokeng

… Isaac Mofokeng was born in Rustenburg in 1981. He attended the Mokutuli and Seipone primary schools in Sebokeng and Orange Farm respectively. Later he…

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1928-2009

Suliman Moosa Esakjee

… Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of … Transvaal Indian Congress.  Esakjee played a major role in the…

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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola

… The family moved to Marabastad and then to Atteridgeville in 1942 where he enrolled at De Jong Primary School and completed standard six in 1947. He…

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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).  He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand…

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… and women’s rights, Sadie Forman (nee Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish poet and writer, emigrated from Lithuania to South…

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1952

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa

… Patrick (called Pat) Mautloa was born 24 September 1952 in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal. Mautloa's family moved to Soweto in 1954. He attended Mehlaleng…

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… Barend Jacobus du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… Laurence Neil Nathan was born in Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape ) in 1959 to Jewish South African parents. He grew up in Sea Point where he…

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1947

Phillmon Velangetshe Sangweni

… Sangweni was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1947. He worked for many years for a carpet company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. …

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1955

William Kentridge

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, … gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept…

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… as a bookkeeper, Seedat entered the political struggle in 1938. He was elected secretary of the Communist Party of … (CPSA – now the South Afrian Communist…

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1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… industry. That industry recklessly dumped petroleum waste in Saro-Wiwa’s home region, the Nigerian delta, which gave … taught briefly at the University of…

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1903-1972

J B Marks

… staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1919, his parents succeeded in getting him enrolled at the Kilnerton Teachers` Training College…

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1904-1986

Jean van der Poel

… Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her … cum laude and won her the Royal Empire Society prize. In…

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1956-2009

Lucas Seage

… Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…

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1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

… William Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… Vuyi Lesley Mbalo was born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to…

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Stanley Silwana

… South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended the party night school founded in 1925 in Ferreirastown,  Johannesburg . A…

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1773-1830

David Stuurman

… was born around 1773, probably near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi … to a wagon wheel, whipped with sjamboks,…

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1918-1975

Thomas Patrick Murray

… Primary School and the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg, Murray was apprenticed to the engineering … and Company Limited where he attained…

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1656-1734

Anna De Koningh

… Groot Constantia. It is believed that Anna was born in bondage somewhere around 1656 in Batavia, meaning she was very young when she arrived at … of whom…

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