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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew … melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his…

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1936-2017

Philip Ata Kgosana

… Philip Ate Kgosana was born in 1936 in Makapanstad in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a … to challenge: A documentary History of…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now  Kwazulu-Natal ), South Africa. Mrs … (then Miss Mathe) was a trainee nurse at…

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1925-1961

Patrice Émery Lumumba

… 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern … the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central…

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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

… Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community Arts…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… Robert Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor … school he was selected to play for the…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some intimate memories of her life…

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1868-1913

King Dinuzulu

… kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of … civil war. Cetshwayo's brothers,…

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1928-2018

Archibald Mncedisi Sebeko

… “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on  3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s. After…

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's…

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1913-1970

Debi Singh

… He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental…

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1955-2016

Emile Maurice

… Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, curator, author … and Nation builder. He received an Advanced Diploma in…

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1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… He was born and died at Ndwedwe, Natal. He attended school in the Ndwedwe district, excelling at craftwork. He went to … Ndaleni Teacher Training College. He…

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1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who … and Yale University, where he obtained an M.A. degree in…

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1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After … for election to the Transkeian…

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1923-1966

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

… Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief.  He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to …

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… moved to Cape Town where he attended an English school. In 1874 the family moved to Pretoria, where his father had … then Meneer Dely se skool op Kerkplein…

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1921

Richard Ernest van der Ross

… Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he … principal of a teacher training school. He became inactive…

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1920

Isaac Osier Horvitch

… Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active … at the University of Cape Town and became an architect. In 1946 he…

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1939

Allina Ndebele

… Allina Ndebele (nee Khumalo) was born on 10 December 1939 in Ekuhlengeni mission, on the Swart Mfolozi near Vryheid, Natal. Ndebele attended school in the…

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1977

Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy

… Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape … He made his first national appearance for…

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Chief Maqoma

… "Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars. Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika,…

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1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… Edward Clark Churchill Mace was born in Leicester, England, 1863. He emigrated to Australia when … mining. Rendered insolvent there, he came to Cape Town in…

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1943-2002

Duke Ketye

… Duke Ketye was born was born on 6 June 1943 in Orlando east, Soweto. Ketye attended Ematsheni Primary School in Orlando East, Soweto. He completed Standard…

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1962

Lucky Shabalala

… Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving …

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1938

Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn

… Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn was born in 1938, in Villageboard, a mixed area that had different … nationalities living side by side. She was raised in…

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1920-2013

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

… 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…

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Bisho Jarsa

… 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…

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1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… 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…

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