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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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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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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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1932

Amy Thornton

… sixteen years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist … the Springbok Legion , a progressive…

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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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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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1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…

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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…

B-0068644

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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