SAHO global search

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…

B-0125758

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…

B-0007829

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…

B-0125899

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…

B-0124602

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…

B-0080693

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…

B-0123560

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…

B-0007802

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…

B-0008627

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…

B-0081677

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…

B-0070371

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…

B-0082944

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…

B-0099834

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…

B-0009223

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…

B-0064882

1869-1945

Thomas Mtobi Mapikela

… Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born  in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a … the ORC Native Congress. In February 1909 he was a member of the…

B-0008439

1936-2017

Philip Ata Kgosana

… in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a minister.  He graduated from the Lady Selborne High … to study commerce for a Commerce degree…

B-0008247

1956

Ben Mclennan

… moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early schooling in Grahamstown , in … with his wife and young son, Mclennan…

B-0093701

1924-1999

Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia

… Congress movement in Baroda, and served several terms of imprisonment in that country, before returning to Durban … Babenia worked as a journalist for the…

B-0122927

1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… Loots had not had the courage and integrity, in the face of considerable pressure, to report the truth’. [ii] However, beyond this significant event are…

B-0120752

1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 years.  He was in one of the White…

B-0008914

1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days…

B-0008125

1961

Janet Mary Cherry

… committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of Science at the University of Cape Town and physics professor, and her mother Helen, … High in…

B-0007937

1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign … At the Centre, Cecil Skotnes ,…

B-0122872

1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due to lack of funds, converted his studies to a…

B-0121674

1955

Diane Case

… was born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in ……

B-0122038

1928-2004

Dolly Rathebe

… Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s…

B-0008942

1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the  University of  Zululand to study law. On campus he joined the Black … new…

B-0064866

1961

Graeme Williams

… Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity ……

B-0009228

1936-2009

Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils

… to visit his relative Jacqueline Arenstein , a member of the Communist Party of South Africa , when he first met Eleanor.  Eleanor joined … 1950s. She was…

B-0008230