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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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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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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in … his release, Fazzie became instrumental in the formation…

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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… on to pursue further studies part time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Makhathini joined politics and devoted his time to organizing the people as an…

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1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… various student and youth organisations such as Congress of South African Students (COSAS) , the South African Youth … Congress (SASCO) and Young Christian…

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1932-2010

Sheena Duncan

… Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the … abroad to…

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1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes … initiates gathered in the indigenous bush in the…

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1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi…

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1952

Popo Molefe

… was born in 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was one of eight children, and spent most of his youth living with his aunt. His mother was a domestic … by…

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1939-2024

Breyten Breytenbach

… Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in … his high school years in Soweto, Mabasa…

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1917-1978

Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh

… on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to the Durban Indian Girls’…

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1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. The latter was the prime minister of…

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1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile Ngcuka. Phumzile Ngcuka became the Minister of Mineral and…

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1936-2009

Dawood Parker

… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role … rose to prominence in the 1950s as a leading activist of the…

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1870-1938

Leo Rbc Francois

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite … but they came to nothing. His death in 1938…

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. … prison. He requested to join his father in the first batch of…

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1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, Booth was one of the earliest proponents of the principle of …

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