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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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1982

Mary Sibande

… in Johannesburg - is interested primarily in questions of the body and how to reclaim the black female body in … a sculptural figure who traverses the…

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1875-1927

James E. Kwegyir Aggrey

… James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he…

B-0007776

1915

Benjamin S. Rajuili

… Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare, … a B.A…

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1938-1999

Ezrom Legae

… In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas … under one roof. During the 1950’s, it…

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1798-1853

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius

… in the district. He became interested in the planning of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary trip to the … and several hundred kinsmen were killed…

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Potlako Leballo

… in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at … his age and enlisted in a non-European…

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1928-1999

Dr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer

… Zac de Beer was born on 11 October 1928. He was the second of four children of Jean Isobel and Zacharias Johannes de Beer, a medical … to 45. He completed an…

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1924-1994

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

… Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the third of eight children. At the age of 17, Motsoaledi came to Johannesburg. His first brush with … work in…

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1915-2004

David Wilcox Bopape

… David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was … School, where almost upon arrival he became a member…

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1619-1677

Jan van Riebeeck

… 1639 and then further on to Dejima (today forming part of Nagasaki) in Japan in 1643. In 1645 van Riebeeck was given charge of the Dutch East India Company…

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1939

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe

… . This work has informed his art, instilling a sense of mysticism in many of his pieces. Konqobe began creating works of art in the early 1970s, encouraged…

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1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

… Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th  of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in…

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which … by the government, she resigned as a…

B-0068468

1922-2001

Sonia Beryl Bunting

… studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1950, she joined the staff of the Guardian…

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children.  He came to South Africa when he was five … School in 1961, after which he studied…

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