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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the…

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1932-1995

Barney Simon

… Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non-racial Market…

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…

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1938

Aubrey Levin

… Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin’s family were ardent supporters of the Party’s ideals. Levin studied…

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from … the USA and Britain…

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife Frances ……

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1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… in politics in 1940 when he was elected chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, number 2 branch of the Transvaal, a position he held until1953 . That same…

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1943-1989

Dr. Abu Baker Asvat

… This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ … may have a better life. He was a…

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1949

Gill Marcus

… born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in … children in 1969. Marcus went on to study…

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1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning of his…

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1927-2019

Ben Turok

… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came … South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the…

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1985

Bathandwa Ndondo

… Lulama Sidumo (nee Ndondo),worked. Following the death of his grandmother, his mother took him to her elder sister’s … in 1980. Ndondo then registered at the…

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1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of…

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1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and for some years … State. Educated at Healdtown…

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Chauke Family

… Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific nor widely … not been promoted by any single art dealer…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… was a physicist and an agnostic and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and inequalities of Apartheid made a huge impact on…

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1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of…

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High School, … he matriculated in 1997. He graduated…

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1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance with the country’s first post-independence … formed the People’s…

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1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… against racism and apartheid. She was a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists (UBJ), serving as its assistant secretary-treasurer, and also a…

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2016

Juda Ngwenya

… (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he was approached by the renowned news wire … over two and half decades, Ngwenya…

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1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at … the Stofberg Gedenkskool (Stofberg Memorial School) of the…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda … was educated at a convent and thereafter at…

B-0009113

1933

Motsoko Pheko

… in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his brother came to South Africa … their aunt, E.M. Moerane. In 1960, Pheko…

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1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, … family moved to KwaMashu. It was the…

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal). He went onto to complete his B.Sc Masters…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… fighting for Namibia’s independence. In 1974, because of Angola's independence, Namibia's northern border was open … time since South African mandate had…

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… was born in Johannesburg  on 1 October 1945, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the   South African Communist Party…

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1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in … on to serve in various capacities in…

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