SAHO global search

1920-2008

Brian Percy Bunting

… Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at  the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of  Sidney Percival Bunting  and  Rebecca…

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… found work at the Crown Mines in Johannesburg as secretary of Reverend Anderson, a welfare officer at the mine. When the … year, in 1953 he found work at the…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

… The implication was clear, many Afrikaners, including some of their political leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler … moved to Israel to fight in the Arab…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, who was a pupil of composition and…

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… finally settling in Swekwati Kamamole. In 1945, at the age of seven he was sent to live with his aunt in Alexander … He started attending primary school at…

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1949

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

… 1967 and began her tertiary studies 1971 at the University of Zululand . She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Science … country in 1976 to complete her MB ChB…

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and … Viktor and Jac Buchner started Vlakplaas, a…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He was the first of three sons born to Manabeng and Dibetle Johanna Mamogobo. … Manabeng was a farm worker. The…

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1967

Francois Pienaar

… to Rand Afrikaner University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg. Pienaar enrolled for Law degree at the … Pienaar interests in rugby grew. He…

B-0008886

1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a … which was featured in the November/December…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was … nine months in the navy and enrolled at the…

B-0007963

1956

Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini

… Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then … spent close to four years in the…

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1871-1936

Eugene Marais

… Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the …

B-0008443

1915

Gopallal Hurbans

… Indian schools in the Tongaat district and was chairman of the Natal Vigilance Committee which protested against the … Areas Act. He was Vice-President and…

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi …

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was…

B-0009251

1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

… (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree from the University of…

B-0008173

1795

Sobhuza I

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born … in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the…

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Douglas G. Wolton

… Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the  Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in … 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape Town in…

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1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years … this in 1968 protest against the…

B-0080525

1927-1974

James Kantor

… and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg’s best-known and successful lawyers who got … at best, he invariably won for his…

B-0066324

1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… was a lecturer in African languages at the University of the Witwatersrand who concentrated on writing; he also … the school that was run by Father Trevor…

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1930-2014

Nelson “Nana” Mahomo

… Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High … he resigned in late 1954 from the…

B-0008383

1923-2010

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani

… Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an … sculptures date to the 1960s,…

B-0008163

1874-1959

Daniel Francois Malan

… in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch…

B-0008411

1913-1967

Louis Washkansky

… Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to … him suffering from congestive cardiac failure. The effects of this were huge cardiac swelling,…

B-0008335

1956

Anthony James (Tony) Leon

… Leon went on to register a law degree with the  University of Witwatersrand . His leadership qualities manifested … still at Witwatersrand University. He was…

B-0008317

C. S. Ramohanoe

… C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…

B-0008937

1910-1969

Florence Matomela

… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising … , she led a demonstration that ended in the burning of permits…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… became invovled in politics at the young age of 13 and by the time he was 15 years old, he was a spokesperson of the Pan Africanist Congress youth, the party…

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