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1900

Esther Franks

… Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Es'kia [Ezekiel]…

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1951

Patricia De Lille

… West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children in an Afrikaans-speaking coloured family. … joined the SACWU. After SACWU became a…

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2013

Ephraim Nkwe

… In the midst of the State of Emergency , the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) was … a secret meeting in Cape Town. Ephraim Nkwe was a member of its first…

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1930

Plaatjies Joseph Paul

… Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined … by day in a furniture factory owned by the father of Ruth…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead of her time.  Though credited with introducing a modern school of sculpture to South Africa during…

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1922-2013

Vesta Smith

… in Vrededorp did not last long as the government’s policy of forced removals soon compelled them to resettle in … Soweto. Smith was eighteen years old. She…

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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

… Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following ……

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… Congress (NIC) against the then conservative leadership of the organisation. After matriculating in 1937, he joined … from Amra’s home on Milton Road, Durban…

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1924-1992

Zuleika Sarojini Christopher

… Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in … she also grew up. Advocate Albert…

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1961

Jo Ractliffe

… is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the…

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1919-2000

Mary Dorothy Benson

… her early education. Born into the privileged world of servants and country clubs, Benson’s early ambitions were … where she would eventually end up. The…

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1962-2007

Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza

… Magwaza was born on 4 April 1962, in Lamontville, one of the oldest Durban townships, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN).  He was one of Evelyn and Philip…

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1886-1955

Richard Victor Selope Thema

… African War (Anglo-Boer War 2) . After the declaration of peace he went to Pretoria where he first worked as waiter … in 1907 and then qualified as a teacher…

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1942

Vera Gow (Adams)

… in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In…

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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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