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… Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931, eventually establishing himself as a peddler. He …

… Born in 1962 in Johannesburg, Kirchhoff spend his early years in Norway and Massachusetts before returning to Johannesburg … Surveying at Wits University, and spent 14 months working in Antarctica as both a meteorologist and surveyor. He spent …

… He was born at Nsengeni in the Vryheid district. He attended the Nsengeni Mission School. In 1968 he moved to Emondlo Township and attended the … Lower Primary School where he became interested in drawing. He also attended the Thabani Higher Primary …

… Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant … items for his community. He spent time as a migrant worker in Johannesburg but returned home after an industrial accident in which he lost a finger. Hlungwani’s earliest extant …

… Stanza Bopape was born on 26 April 1961 in Mamelodi East. He began high school studies at Rebalelaka … League branch. After matriculating he became involved in his community and was elected in 1987 as the first General Secretary of the South African …

… Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg , daughter of EI Asvat, came under the … and became fully conversant with the political situation in the country. It was in the 1940s that Zainab became politically active. She … 19 August 2009]|Barmania, N. 2008. South African Indians in London - From Gujarat to Tooting via Durban [Online]. …

… Robert Moffat was born on 21 December 1795 in Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were not wealthy. He was father-in-law to the missionary-explorer, David Livingstone and … secure employment, Robert Moffat moved south to Cheshire in England, where he worked as a gardener. After some …

… Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her career teaching history at schools and was involved in the trade union movement.  She became a member of the …

… as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. One day in 1884, a Christian lady by the name of Miss Schreiner, who …

… Pukwana was a renowned saxophonist born on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth . The young Pukwana grew up studying the … to play with the Broadway yanks and later the Four Yanks. In a turn of events that would alter his music career, … B & Gordon, S, (1997), Beyond the Blues: Township Jazz in the '60s and '70s , (David Phillip), p.19| Afribeat Chris …

… Ayesha Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an … Laws, especially the Group Areas Act and the Pass Laws . In 1951, when a call came from a trade union movement to stage a one-day strike, she decided to throw in her weight against the unjust laws. She went to the trade …

… some time making Afrikaans records and teaching singing. In 1934 she went to Germany to study singing and acting and returned to South Africa in 1937. After her return she did pioneering work in the cultural field. She was involved in various …

… Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at …

… Fanie de Villiers was born on the 13th October 1964 in Vereeniging. In 1985 he started playing for the Northern Transvaal cricket team and in the 1992/93 cricket season he started his career for the …

… Bheki Myeni was born on 10 October 1954 in Hlabisa, Natal. Myeni's parents died when he was a young … his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in Natal. Myeni started carving wooden spoons, knives and walking sticks and making clay models when he was in Standard VI, his last year of schooling. His interest in …

… Ephraim Ziqubu was born in 1948 in Rorkes Drift, Natal. Ziqubu received his training at Rorke\'s Drift. In 1969 he was employed as a potter. He joined Katlehong Art …

… of a group of Ethiopian slaves freed by a British warship in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, then taken round the African coast and placed in the care of missionaries in South Africa. "We were overawed in her presence and by the …

… Campbell. She was educated at St. Anne's Diocesan College in Natal and at St. Leonard's School in Scotland where, in her own words, she acquired "an enthusiasm for History, … de Beer, M. (1988). Who did what in South Africa. Craighall, Johannesburg: Ad Donker.| …

… Piet Retief was born on 12 November 1780 in the Wagenmakersvallei, (known as Wellington today), Cape … Debora Retief. His ancestors were from Provence in France. Piet Retief lived with his father until he was 27, after which he left the farm. He settled in Stellenbosch, Cape Province and tried his hand at a number …

… Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave home in order to gain a basic education. After completing his …

… Steve Hilton-Barber was born in Tzaneen, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province) in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of … and Media Studies degree from Rhodes University. In 1986 he joined Afrapix and worked as a stringer for …

… one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head of the Sociology Department at UCT, a post he took over in 2009. He also chairs the board of the National Institute … promulgated after his and Sarah Mosoetsa's pioneering work in creating a Charter for the fields of study in 2011.      …

… Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six … area. Despite his youth the event was significant in his life particularly since he was forced to change …

… Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of … to form his own team, to the disapproval of many in the football world. Amidst stern opposition, Motaung … Chiefs. Kaizer Chiefs is now one of the biggest teams in the country. Motaung also co-founded the Premier Soccer …

… Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join … Bantu Methodist Church, of which he became president. In the interwar period, he testified before two parliamentary …

… Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art … run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he started attending art classes offered at the … Magwa and Thando Mama. Barely out of high school, Xaba in one of his untitled paintings addresses an issue that …

… Sushila Mashruwallah was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was …

… University Education Diploma from Rhodes University, an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, … his significant contribution to scholarship, especially in the field of Industrial Sociology. His book Cast in a Racial Mould (1985), showing how changes in the labour …

… Selby Themba Ngendane was born about 1929 in the Eastern Cape and attended Fort Hare, where he was active in the African National Congress Youth League during the … Defiance Campaign . Moving to  Johannesburg  to study law in 1953, he joined the Africanist movement in Orlando …

… Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi was born on 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu ( Western Cape ). She was the Deputy President … Ntwanambi joined the National Council of Provinces in 1999, serving in various capacities including as Chairperson of the Select …