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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

… Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and his mother, Margaret, was also at the forefront of church’s activities…

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1958-2004

Martin Tose

… born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the ruling National … victory. The year was also characterised…

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1953-1993

Sam Tambani

… Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni …

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1926

Johannes Jacobus Degenaar

… man he was sent to the Cape to study at the University of Stellenbosch, where he completed his M.A. in 1948 and a … in 1950. He later went on to study at the…

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1915

Reverend Beyers Naudé

… who was close to his father, Jozua Naudé.  Naudé was one of eight children and was born into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of…

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1908-2003

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

… was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was the chairman of the British…

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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… He was highly influential in the re-emergence of the Black labour movement and one of the first in the White-left to appreciate the significance of the Black…

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1809-1882

Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman

… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester … with W. E…

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1945

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

… fast-tracked for advanced training in Moscow. She was one of three women who were chosen for the programme. After the … Sedibe was deployed in for a period…

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… Khanyesa in the North West Province . She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko and her father was Khaonyatse/Gaonyatse … Teachers’ Union. The issues then were…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a graduate of the prestigious Fort Hare University and graduated in 1935 … Cape when his father was appointed…

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1894-1961

James la Guma

… A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, Arnold, and his wife Jemima. While the domestic…

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… England for Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South Africa … that available to his peers at the…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied … arranged for someone to get a permit to…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… and Eulalie remained with her grandparents. From the age of six Eulalie attended boarding schools where she displayed early on, some of her leadership skills…

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1967-1991

Vuyani Mabaxa

… up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s, he was one of many…

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer … the White minority increasingly weakened the…

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India…

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1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

… Cape Town in early 1930s. Mafekeng left school at the age of 15 to support the family.  Her first job was at a “canning … married a fellow factory worker in…

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1879-1931

Stephen William Black

… Stephen Black was the son of Henry and Sarah Black. He was born in September 1879 in … was engaged by George Kingswell who was owner and editor of The Owl…

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He was the son of Henry Francis Burton, a magistrate and civil commissioner. … first studied literature and…

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1888-1956

Sonja Schlesin

… later immigrated to South Africa, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in June 1892.  In 1903,  M.K Gandhi , who had … campaigns, enrolled as an attorney in…

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1925-2012

Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias

… School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942. At the age of 15 even before he finished his schooling, he decided to study medicine after his sister, Val,…

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1795-1840

King Dingane ka Senzangakhona

… career. Instead, Dingane enters the record when on the 22 of September 1828 he, with the assistance of his half-brother Mhlangana and servant Mbopha,…

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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a … whatever form, whether against Boers or Black…

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1959

Jane Alexander

… Her figures are characterised by their mixture of human and non-human elements and a disquieting presence. … exemplified in her early work Butcher Boys,…

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1930-2013

Amina Cachalia

… and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was a companion of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi . He was also…

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… family moved to Elandslaagte, Northern Natal, the centre of coal mining, where they felt that there would be better … a strong interest in public affairs. He…

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1921

Richard Ernest van der Ross

… der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was principal of a…

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1850s-1911

Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba

… Church minister on 2 December 1875. He became a teacher of biblical studies. After his ordination, he volunteered to … and taught at Lovedale Institution. In…

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