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1961-1988

Johannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape

… 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…

B-0007871

1923-2010

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani

… 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…

B-0008163

1956

Ndabenhle William Zulu

… 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…

B-0009263

1962

Chris Kirchhoff

… Born in 1962 in Johannesburg, Kirchhoff spend his early years in Norway and Massachusetts before returning to Johannesburg … Surveying at Wits University,…

B-0008261

Josias Madzunya

… 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,…

B-0008366

1952-2008

Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa

… Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa was born in 1952. After joining the  African National Congress’  military wing,  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  in 1977, Mbongwa…

B-0008522

1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… Letty began her first work in the art field in 1925 when she began work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary laboratory. Here she had to record in detail the post…

B-0008323

1952-2008

Colonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa

… Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa was born in 1952. After joining the  African National Congress’  military wing,  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  in 1977, Mbongwa…

B-0067929

1894-1982

Madie Hall-Xuma

… B. Xuma 's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African … (ANCWL) from 1943 until 1948. She was born…

B-0009246

1787-1828

Shaka Zulu

… as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and … reign more than a hundred chiefdoms were…

B-0009265

Piet Retief

… Piet Retief was born on 12 November 1780 in the Wagenmakersvallei, (known as Wellington today), Cape … Debora Retief. His ancestors were from Provence in…

B-0068386

1931-1964

Suliman “Babla” Saloojee

… 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…

B-0064871

1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… 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…

B-0007825

1954

Bheki Myeni

… 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…

B-0008721

1952

Ari Sitas

… 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…

B-0121912

1964

Petrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers

… 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…

B-0007995

1911-1986

Esther Susanna Mentz

… 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…

B-0067946

1895-1960

Sam P. Sesedi

… 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 … for election to the…

B-0009022

1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… 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…

B-0008941

1944

Kaizer Motaung

… 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…

B-0096409

1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… Willem Petrus Esterhuyse (Willie) Esterhuyse was born in 1936 in Laingsburg, Western Province (now Western Cape), on his … where after a sabbatical of two…

B-0096558

1907-1988

Sushila Gandhi

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

B-0008092

1980

Clive Zamani Xaba

… 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…

B-0009240

Abner S. Mtimkulu

… 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…

B-0068152

1942-2024

Edward “Eddie” Webster

… University Education Diploma from Rhodes University, an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, … his significant contribution to…

B-0095160

1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of South Africa’s arid interior … of Cape Town, his first…

B-0007829

1948

Ephraim Ziqubu

… 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…

B-0009260

1909-1961

David Pratt

… and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the United Kingdom to Johannesburg, South Africa when … his adult life for psychiatric treatment. He…

B-0068322

1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was…

B-0008576

1929

Selby Themba Ngendane

… 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…

B-0068242