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1937-2015

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

… meetings with his Father, Ebrahim Dinat, who was a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) .  In 1953,…

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1933-1986

Samora Machel

… Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. … he worked in…

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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… by his father to Mariazel in the Transkei, near the border of Lesotho where he did form one and form two in one year. … During this period he carried…

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1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… fruit and vegetables to hotels. Mononmony was the fifth of nine children and the only daughter. Mononmony married … (mother) not only to her children but…

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1851-1897

Barney Barnato

… Barnato was born in 21 February 1851, Whitechapel slum of London. His original name was Barnett Issacs but changed … in the diamond rush that followed the…

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1938

David Nthubu Koloane

… The use of artworks for public education by the National Roads Safety Organisation convinced Koloane of the role of art in communication. Together with Louis…

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1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… they died from Asian flu leaving him orphaned at the age of two. He was then taken care of by friends and family before being given to a Methodist … he was…

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1773-1830

David Stuurman

… the Khoi and San people were systematically dispossessed of their traditional lands “on ordinance by the colonists”, … his farm. In 1799, the Khoi, on the…

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1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor. Wolpe was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand …

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1941

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

… born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg . She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. … sculptor. Barbara grew up in Witbank…

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1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and … boy by nature, Peter suffered the…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… she had to record in detail the post mortem appearance of various animal diseases and abnormalities. This was before the time of colour photographs. In 1927…

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist and a leader of the  African National…

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he was one of the strongest supporters of the Satyagraha Campaign. He was…

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1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… and a prolific author.  He wrote 54 books, including five of poetry and one on depression.  De Villiers also composed a number of hymns that were included in…

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1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

… education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township, south of Johannesburg. Other academic qualifications include a … a Certificate in Defence Management from…

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1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… He left the country in 1964 and joined ANC ranks of those who were already exile. Sigxashe went to Russia … Tanzania where he worked as a lecturer at the…

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… Tilley in 1933 and was elected in 1934 as Hon. Secretary of the Kholvad Madressa Anjiman Islamia, the youngest person … South Africa in 1935 and was elected…

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1958

Jackson Mthembu

… school fees, uniforms, books." He went to the University of Fort Hare but was later expelled, and started working at … and Allied Workers Union from 1984 to…

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the…

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1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… His grandparents decided to relocate to Garankuwa, North of Pretoria to live with his aunt. Grootboom attended at Odi High School in Hebron, North of…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended Grey High … six matches for Sussex Second XI. He…

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… in politics at Livingstone High School , where several of her teachers were involved in the Unity Movement and the … Affairs Department (Anti-CAD) activities…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like … Serote,…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… for a Lower Secondary Teachers’ Diploma at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). As she had grown up under the guidance of her grandmother, who was a…

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1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool Jan van … his farming experience to win abroad support…

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1964

Pitso John Mosimane

… July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the coach of Mamelodi…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational methods that … interested in photography and taught…

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1949-1985

Sicelo Mhlauli

… he was teaching at Tembalabantu, Charles Sebe, the head of the Ciskei intelligence services informed Mhlauli that he … Saamstaan . Mhlauli also became an…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…

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