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1926-1977

Viola Hashe

… In the early 1950s she was elected Assistant Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and the Dairy Workers Union. … 1954, Hashe served on the Transvaal…

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1915-2006

Hilda Bernstein

… associated with the struggle for National Union of Distributive Workers. She was a member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth until 1940. After…

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1922

Elsa Joubert

… Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA and SOD) and Cape Town (MA in Afrikaans-Nederlands). Within two years of…

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1979

Alexander Leor Fattal

… Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts … Studies, focusing on…

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1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… he studied art under Walter Battiss at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of Pretoria…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated at the Bekezulu…

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1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda McKenzie. He attended Melbourne Road … and darkroom equipment —thus starting his…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… the  Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) during the state of emergency after the banning of the organization in 1960. He soon became chairperson of the PAC in the…

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Billy Paddock

… Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now … His political consciousness was awakened at the University of Natal (now University of…

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1953

Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale

… was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black township's…

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1905-1978

Moses Mauane Kotane

… Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant…

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1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated at St Oswald's…

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all…

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1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, … and graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge at the…

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1940

Sindiso Mfenyana

… is descended from the Bhele clan, which is an offshoot of the Hlubi tribe. He traces his roots back to a small town … the iMfecane during the mid 1800s,…

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1923-1986

Moses Mabhida

… off the land. Mabhida could not pursue his studies because of the financial constraints experienced by his family. His … political motivators were his father…

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1947-1974

Abram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro

… time with his uncle where he assisted him with the running of the bakery business. He started his schooling in 1951 at … Primary School. The school was…

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1904-1996

Nokukhanya Luthuli

… maiden name Bhengu, (also known as MaBhengu) was the wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli . Although she never became as … Mission Station (near Durban) as the…

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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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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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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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