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1800

Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther

… Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The … raids and pretty wars. It was in 1821 that…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… Perhaps more importantly, he was elected as the President of the Student Representative Council.    Before returning to … and played an instrumental role in…

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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

… as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of Imvo Zabantsundu, and published numerous books of Xhosa poetry and prose. He taught at Lovedale…

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1963-1976

Hector Pieterson

… Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of…

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1961-1976

Lesley Hastings Ndlovu

… that afternoon in grim detail: “A bullet wound to one side of his head, blood and brains spilling out of a large exit wound on the other side, the gurgle of…

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1951

David Lurie

… (Philosophy) at UCT before going to the London School of Economics where he did research and co-edited Millennium, Journal of International studies.  Self…

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1969

Kim Ludbrook

… photojournalism from 1993-1994 at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, England, finishing with a postgraduate at the University of Wales, Cardiff. After…

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Thys Dullaart

… in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a fine arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National Diploma in Photography at Pretoria…

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1958

Paul Konings

… to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town. While in Cape Town , he worked as a freelance … during…

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1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth – some give it as 1892, others as 1896. As a … he studied painting and drawing at the…

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1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… was several months pregnant. She was released at the time of her baby's birth, only to be re-arrested nine weeks later … her infant. She headed the media…

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… court interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one of the founders of the ANC newspaper,  Abantu-Batho,  and served as its … the next decade. In the…

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1966

Andreas Vlachakis

… a National Diploma in Photography from the Technikon of Pretoria. He did his third year Specialization and thesis in area of documentary photography, "…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to Swaziland … a career in journalism. In 1980, Sisulu,…

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Siva Pillay

… attack in Natal on 16 December 1961. However, due to one of their members (Bruno Mtolo), a police spy, the group of 19 was betrayed and subsequently charged…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of  March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

… A chairman of the Orlando  African National Congress  (ANC) during the … called the "Bafebagiya" group. He later became president of the  Swaziland  National…

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Paul Landau

… Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy … organised by South African History Online,…

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Unknown

Bransby Ndobe

… and also to radicalise Coloured farm workers. A member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in its heyday and also of the  Communist Party of…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing … Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook…

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1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’ Degree in … and obtained a Doctoral Degree with a thesis…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. … South Africa the following year to…

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

…  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security Police in…

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career. His father owned a … album titled Celebrations. The album…

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1969-2019

Philemon Masinga

… or ‘Chippa’ as he is affectionately known by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, … Province). At primary school level he…

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1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop…

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S. S. Tema

… Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the periphery of…

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1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South Africa…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just … He trained as a…

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1940-2006

Louis Problem Mkhize

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … to undergo military training. He left in the company of…

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