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1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both … as Orange Free State)…

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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… School in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the City Council, working in the…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale … the Post newspaper in Johannesburg, a…

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1895-1951

Dorothy Ruth Boxall

… , South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South Africa. She studied under Prof. P.R. Kirby of the Department of Music at the…

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… he was already studying part-time at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. The influence and guidance of Katrine Harries (1914–1918) is discernable in his…

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1967

Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo

… 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna and Kanana Mbuyabo. He received his early education … gallantly against the…

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1940

Ebrahim Ismail Asvat

… from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of its Johannesburg branch. On…

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T W Thibedi

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, … he…

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1931-2015

Reggie Vandeyar

… in Johannesburg. He schooled in Fordsburg where his family of nine members, of which he was the youngest, eventually settled down. … Höer Skool. At about 13…

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1991

Mokgadi Caster Semenya

… later went on to study Sports Science at the University of North West. In the African Junior Championships in 2009, … won both the 800 meters (m) and 1500m…

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1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma Nkondo left Lorenco Marques … were extremely devout Christians…

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1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in the…

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1956-1985

Fort Calata

… Canon James Arthur Calata , was the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1936 to 1949. In 1956, when Fort was born, Canon Calata was…

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Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and formed the South … Students Organization (SASO) in July 1968. At…

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1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where his father was a principal at a … first piano lessons. He also became…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s … He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km)…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… became a full-time organiser for the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions. Whilst he was working for the Council, it joined the  South African…

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1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, further … their municipality. Barenblatt later…

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1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings died in childhood. Mhlaba attended school at ……

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1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible freedoms…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the…

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… Jan de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de Klerk, a political analyst and one…

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… were subjected to in the old Romanov empire. At the age of four, Hirson was enrolled at the Talmud Torah, a Hebrew … and studied as a part-time student at…

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1942-1985

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

… morning after his murder. She vehemently refuted the claim of police General Coetzee that the African National Congress … to his contribution in the struggle…

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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… to study further, and it was there that she learned of the detention of her adored elder brother, Jack Tarshish, during the state of emergency , which…

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… Nomkhosi  Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National ……

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster…

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1903-1966

Edward “Eddie” Roux

… Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up … In 1923 he joined the CPSA and was drawn…

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… in MK camps until 1979 when he was deployed as Chief of Logistics in Luanda, Angola. He later served in ANC Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia as the co…

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following … in executing murals as a teenager, using a…

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