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1954-2008

John Matshikiza

… was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, Todd, was a … had an all-black cast. King Kong helped…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski…

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1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of these laws Cole was…

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1946

Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk

… on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and the transition to the apartheid regime … to the Population Registration Act. …

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1926-2021

Maniben Sita

…  (TIC) in 1928. He was an executive member and chairman of the Pretoria branch before becoming president of the TIC. Her father encouraged all seven of his…

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1934-2012

Ellen Lambert

… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . … She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of…

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1927-2005

Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse

… 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles William Hendrickse, both school … three decades, rising…

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1943-1980

Pierre Jacy Fourie

… a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. He grew … Martin, who earned but a meager income,…

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1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo … Biko  and Barney Pityana and their…

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1786-1870

King Moshoeshoe I

… after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe…

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1891-1965

Dr Silas Modiri Molema

… in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… New York Times called her an actress 'who reads the soul' of Fugard. Bryceland's collaborations with Fugard were many … and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage…

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1917-1985

Jordan Kush Ngubane

… was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in … in 1937, Ngubane was offered the…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi … family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of…

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1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… six years with  Daily News  he became chief subeditor of  The Northern Newspaper , which was serving the Copper … Ndola, Zambia. Five years later he became…

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Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to standard five [grade seven] level…

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1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

… London. Adelaide Tambo’s political life started at the age of 10 after a raid by the police, following an uprising in … entrenching apartheid, it became a…

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1951-1985

Sparrow Mkonto

… lived and worked under trying conditions. The average wage of a railway worker in Cradock in 1983 was R242/month.  He … a good living. Simmering discontent…

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1913-2009

Nöel Robb

… 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife, … in the First World War and was held as a…

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1931

Raymond Ackerman

… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human and Rousseau. … re-invented his father's industry…

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1953-1982

Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

… Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, … and certificates. In 1971 he enrolled…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past. His grandfather, a Talmudic … having arrived in England with her…

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1931-2015

Lauretta Ngcobo

… (1)  Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a … work was only published in the 80s and 90s…

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1919-1976

Dr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe

… James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the  African National Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s,…

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1920

Marutle Flag Boshielo

… the  African National Congress  (ANC) and  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1940s and served in the ANC … to pursue his studies through evening…

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1900-1984

Princess Magogo

… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King,  Dinuzulu  kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and … is like a bow which has a string bound down to…

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1884-1953

John David Rheinallt Jones

… Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal…

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1983

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

… in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg , where he obtained a … Studies at the same university.  In his…

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1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

… Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in … Indian Youth Congress and later in the…

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1931-2000

Ismail Mahomed

… on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly staunch Muslim parents. He had five siblings. … at the…

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