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Bisho Jarsa

… Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his … Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary…

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1925-1961

Patrice Émery Lumumba

… village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo ). . Lumumba’s tribe…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also … schooling. In 1973 Ben, then a student at…

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1817-1893

Sir. Theophilus Shepstone

… Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 … to Sir Benjamin D'Urban during the Sixth…

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1900-1976

Emil Sachs

… 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs', and his wife, … to him, the correct…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13…

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1841-1926

John Xavier Merriman

… was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa in 1910. He was…

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1956-1979

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu

… born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from … Standard 8, but did not complete his…

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1817-1893

Theophilus Shepstone

… Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 … to Sir Benjamin D'Urban during the Sixth…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… Introduction Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and … the youth) were highly receptive…

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1790-1868

King Mzilikazi

… He was born ca. 1790 near Mkuze, Zululand (now part of South Africa). The son of Matshobana whom many had considered to be the greatest … he encountered on…

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1954

Lele Jacob Motaung

… is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners  and banned persons in South Africa … a…

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé Levetan) First. … born in Latvia and came to South…

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Nise Bulelwa Malange

… she became fascinated and involved in the trade union work of her uncle Rev. Marawu. She attended school first in Elsies … ( Eastern Cape ) to escape the…

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1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… Queenstown, Eastern Cape home, will go down in the annals of South African music as one of the jazz pioneers who played a pivotal role in the birth and…

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1945-2025

David Hemson

… strict Christian household sheltered from the realities of what was happening in South Africa politically and socially. He was drafted out of high school to…

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1929

Günther Komnick

… was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of…

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1963

Roger Meintjes

… enlarger advertised in the under-R20 column in one of the Cape newspapers.  In 1985, Meintjes went to study at Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the…

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1955

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

… School in Inanda and enrolled with the National University of Lesotho for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science and Education. After … in Educational…

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1938-2018

Keorapetse William Kgositsile

… political activist Ruth First . Kgositsile, being a member of the African National Congress  (ANC), through the … In one interview he was quoted as saying: …

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1890-1938

Wilhelmina Louisa Freund

… 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German immigrants who met … she studied under EIsie Fogerty at the…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He became the secretary of the Laundry Workers Union as well as a member of the ANC in…

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in … (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… Hindus and various followers split, following the marriage of the Indian government's agent, a Muslim, to a Hindu woman. An avid learner, Kajee read lot of…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by … stint at diamond digging in Kimberley…

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… through the ranks, ultimately becoming the Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s. Together … in addition to earning two diplomas in…

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1928-2010

Jean Clarice Middleton

… an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). Following this, she worked as a teacher. … Strachan , who was later imprisoned…

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1950

Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper

… (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy Cooper. Cooper matriculated from … A. degree at the at the University…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early 1940s, until her retirement in … . She married Jack Hodgson in 1945. The…

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1963

Justice Sfiso Mkame

… Ainslie in Johannesburg in the mid-1980s. Ka-Mkame speaks of them as 'milestones' that took his work to another level. His ‘love letters’ of the 1980s were…

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