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1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) to Julie … her professional career as a Management…

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… evidence to discern who she actually was and why she in particular made the prophecies she did, let alone whether … familiar with Christianity. He returned…

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Connie Mofokeng

… the uprising she was one of the hundreds detained. While in detention she was beaten and tortured in an attempt to gain information, but she kept silent…

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1939

Chief Malebogo

… and close to the Soutpansberg Range. Malebogo became chief in 1880. He saw the Transvaal Boers as intruders who were … way of life and refused to have his…

B-0008415

1932

Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

… Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe was born on 22 March 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua … education at Phokoane United Christian…

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1923

Lucas Mangope

… From 1947 to 1949 he worked in the Department of Native Affairs and in 1951 commenced studying for the Higher Primary Teacher's … course, he entered the…

B-0008436

1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… slight physique since many beverages at the time were sold in a “¼ pint”. During the 1950s, Quarter was a member of the … to the major campaigns of that…

B-0064874

1770

Chief Dingiswayo

… and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand area before  Shaka  brought them under his … life. Tradition has long insisted that…

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Frank A. Pendla

… A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by  A. B. Xuma  in September 1942. Born in the Cape, he attended…

B-0068307

1986

Peter (Petrus) Nchabeleng

… Democratic Front  (UDF). He was convicted of sabotage in 1962 and served eight years on Robben Island. He died in detention on 11 April 1986, a day after he…

B-0068229

1960

Khela Ngobese

… Ngobese was born in 1960 in KwaMashu but he later moved to Cator Manor Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School …

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1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… Anton van Wouw was born in Driedergen, Netherlands on 20 November 1862. He is … monumental statue of Church Square. During his time spent in the wilderness…

B-0009195

1948

Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph

… Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph was born in Pretoria in 1948, and was educated at Pretoria High School for Girls. … (including Goldie Zaidel, Philip Levy and Adolph…

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Hamilton Kraai

… Hamilton Kraai was born and educated at Peddie in the Cape, he went to work as a warehouse foreman in Johannesburg, where he joined the  African National…

B-0008277

1945

Milner Langa Kabane

… Milner Langa Kabane was born in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of … the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925…

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1860-1921

Ellias John Mqoboli

… E. J. Mqoboli was born around 1860 in the Cape and educated at Healdtown, Mqoboli trained first … as a speaker and writer, he played a prominent part in the…

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Mkhuseli Joseph Kettledas

… Joseph Kettledas joined the Pan African Congress ( PAC ) in 1961. He was arrested on 8 April 1963 for sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He…

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James D. Ngojo

… James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case ……

B-0068243

2012

Mgcineni Noki

… Mgcineni Noki (40), known as Mambush, was from Twalikhulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009 and was a leader of the strike. On 16…

B-0121620

1976

Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane

… by the minister of police Mr Tshazibane had been held in connection with an explosion at the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg and jailed at John Vorster Square…

B-0074845

1893-1958

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

… to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in Nylstroom, now known as Modimolle, in the Limpopo Province. He was a secretary of the National…

B-0009106

1976

William Nomodi Tshwane

… students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modderbee prison in Johannesburg.Police said that he had been caught handling … police on 23 February 1977 said that Mr…

B-0074846

1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he studied law in Leyden from 1766…

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Anneke Laurie

… Laurie was born in Zimbabwe, where her father was a missionary doctor. … Vanderbijlpark and Kimberley. Anneke has lived in the Vaal Triangle since she was 15…

B-0008301

1950

Elizabeth Mbatha

… Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha , a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…

B-0008511

1935

Jeremiah W Dunjwa

… Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal …

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Unknown-Unknown

Samuel Chibane

… Samuel Chibane was born in Pretoria and became involved with the PAC as a student at Wilberforce Institute in Evaton, near  Sharpeville . In 1963 he was…

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