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1928-2010

Jean Clarice Middleton

… Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban . She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of ……

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… Cassim Amra was born in 1919 in Durban Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal).  He attended Sastri … George Singh and other activists who played a crucial role in…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She … clubs which brought her into contact with people…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced … because he had known those affected…

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1926

Leonora van den Heever

… Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein . She went on to complete her MA in English …

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, matriculating in 1948.’…

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1981

Julius Sello Malema

… involvement Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a domestic worker in Seshego…

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Margaret Chuene Mncadi

… Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and … of the Witwatersrand. She established a medical practice in…

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1826-1884

King Cetshwayo

… (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth,  … Mpande…

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… Moebien Wadee was born in Sophiatown in 1943. He schooled in the area before his family moved to Kliptown. He studied …

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1958

Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande

… Dr Emmanuel Bonginkosi "Blade" Nzimande was born in Kwa-Dambuza, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

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1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August … at Catholic schools and for some years was a brother in…

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1886-1946

Franciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt

… Louis) De Vriendt was born on 2 September 1886**1874 in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a famous … Philomina Eulaers. De Vriendt first…

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1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… Bulelani Ngcuka was born on 2 May 1954 in Middledrift, Eastern Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married … Ngcuka…

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mid 1800s-1921

Martin Lutuli

… Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a … Union . She joined the  African National Congress (ANC) …

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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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1906-1980

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi

… Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of … between Engcobo and Idutywa. He moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become…

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1945

Marlise Joubert

… Marlise Joubert was born in Elim (near Levubu), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province ). She grew up in Warmbaths (Bela Bela) and has degrees in…

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… is internationally renowned for her unrelenting efforts in advocating democracy, environmental conservation and human rights. [i] She was born in Nyeri, part…

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1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township … the case with Sophiatown, whose destruction was completed in…

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1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended … the slopes of Table Mountain. Daniels had a number of…

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1934-2012

Ellen Lambert

… Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of 19 in…

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1932

Harold Athol Fugard

… Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and…

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1924-2008

Esther Barsel

… Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother…

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1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

… instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste later in life. Kippie's first musical instrument was the clarinet … which he played with his first band…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of … Africans. He was an eccentric who often rode horseback in…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

…   Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no …

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