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1940

Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers

… de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway … clerk, organiser…

B-0007994

1903-1972

J B Marks

… his mother, a midwife. His father was a staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1919, his parents … African National Congress (ANC) and…

B-0008450

1959

Thandi Modise

… Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi … incorporated into Bophuthatswana . There was a great deal of resistance…

B-0008591

1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now … By 1981 she was serving as the…

B-0125869

1911-1980

Lillian Masediba Ngoyi

… Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in … Union (GWU)  under Solly Sachs, and soon…

B-0068245

1929

Peter Hlaole Molotsi

… born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His … the syllabus preparing them to…

B-0068076

1940

James Edward April

… James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven…

B-0007792

1966

Pule Pheto

… Pule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London … in…

B-0122712

1936-1973

Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi

… have had a big showman personality as he was loved by many of his peers and followers. He became the first black South … 14-piece band in the country. Mrwebi…

B-0122621

1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… Nirvana High School. While studying for a Bachelor of Arts at the University Witwatersrand, she became active in … in various community organisations and…

B-0007772

1865

Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi

… spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and his mother…

B-0007819

1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

… to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art and design, which aimed at giving a foundation 11 both … applied arts. This was emulated at…

B-0008128

1889-1916

Harold Cressy

… 1 February 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman Catholic Mission … the basic…

B-0007962

Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Liverpool, England. She also attended courses on International Relations at the Institute of…

B-0068250

1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

… Skei Gwentshe played a key role in the establishment of an African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) branch … 1948, and ‘in organizing East London for…

B-0008137

1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district of Transkei . Ma Mbeki’s family, the Moeranes, are Basotho members of the…

B-0094629

1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… Sihlali moved back in with his parents at the age of 14, staying with them in Moroka outside Johannesburg , … in 1958, and had five children with her. As a…

B-0098973

1856-1919

Saul Msane

… in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of Europe together with a Zulu choir. In approximately 1907 … started in 1900. In 1901 he became a…

B-0068143

1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… in 1935. As a student, he was influenced by the writings of Samuel Krune Mqhayi. With no other prospects for a viable … Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the…

B-0077426

1950

Charles Nupen

… Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts with Political Science as a major in 1968…

B-0094714

1924-2002

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

… Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up … Senior Certificate in 1941 and then…

B-0121281

1924-2009

Dennis Brutus

… moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of four he attended Paterson High School. He graduated from the University of Fort Hare with distinction…

B-0007892

1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… 1947, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at…

B-0094976

1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came to Cape Town as a labourer, … helped organise a black railway and…

B-0008779

1949

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

… now Gauteng] Old Location where they moved to in search of work.  Here, Madingoane became involved in community … in Apex. He was instrumental in founding…

B-0068113

1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the age of 12, from India. He was one of six children, with two sisters, Zubeida and Aysha and … In 1955, the…

B-0068942

1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple … an immigrant from Sunderland, was a shop…

B-0066278

1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… at the university at the time, and her father, a member of the South African Communist Party eventually lost his … 's underground structures. When Baleka’s…

B-0008248

1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… and human rights. [i] She was born in Nyeri, part of the rural region of Kenya on the 1st of April 1940. Maathai was of Kikuyu ethnicity. In 1964, …

B-0120967

1921-1976

Leslie Massina

… left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective who had been gain access … into the African National Congress (ANC…

B-0008477