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1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… Artists, mainly concerned with the social conditions of their segregated settlements, emerged through the Polly … between 1952 and 1954, under Cecil Skotnes…

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1869-1948

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

… *Note: The focus of this biography is on Gandhi's life and times in South … 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. He was the last child of Karamchand Gandhi,…

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1981

Julius Sello Malema

… age. He joined the Masupatsela (Trailblazers), a movement of the African National Congress  (ANC) at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main…

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1880

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

… born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began … His efforts impressed his employer and…

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1920-2013

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

… Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg , daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to … At the…

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1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… where he completed Standard Six (Grade Eight). At the age of 15 he became an apprentice upholsterer at a furniture … Union Following this, Bonhomme was…

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1943

Sindiwe Magona

… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona…

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Dawid Kruiper

… as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was the first son of the legendary San leader, Regopstaan Kruiper. Kruiper was the traditional leader and healer of the…

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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a … continuing for lower and superior courts)…

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1920

Isaac Osier Horvitch

… 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and … newspaper, The Guardian. He studied at the…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … Side Bar, and…

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1957

Sakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma

… was born in Port Elizabeth on 12 May 1957, the eldest of the six children of Edward Nzima Macozoma and Nobanzi Beauty Macozoma. He grew … home, with his…

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four children. His father, a businessperson in the fishing … was six years old. His mother then…

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1956

Azhar Cachalia

… Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in … Between 1975 and 1981 he studied science at…

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1935

Don Mattera

… grandparents not his parents. He grew up in the mixed area of Johannesburg called Sophiatown before the apartheid … people classified “Coloured” by the…

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1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to…

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1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his … his hand…

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1919-2005

Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng

… Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a mineworker and…

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1950

Martin Plaut

… Germany, but left in the 1930s due to the persecution of Jews. Plaut schooled at Saint Georges and from Standard 8 … his first degree in Social Science from…

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic … in his family, Makhanya enrolled at the…

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1952

Oupa Joshua Gqozo

… was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled … and Bodibeng Senior High School. In 1972 he…

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Joel Joffe

… Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, qualified as a … in the Rivonia Trial, where several leading…

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. … school years and as a consequence…

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1873-1905

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

… Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale ……

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1923-2013

Reginald (Reggie) September

… was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a … involvement began when he came under the…

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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After … and Cable Workers” Union in Howick…

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1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. Most of Lekota’s schooling was completed in Kroonstad. He … soccer field.  In 1971,…

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Jomo Kenyatta

… to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ”” one of five administrative…

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1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of…

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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