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02-October1937

Rev. Mzwandile Maqina

… Rev. Mzwandile Ebenezer Maqina was born in 2nd of October 1937,New Brighton .He grew up in Port Elizabeth ,the son of two teachers,attended Lovedale,taught…

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1917-2004

Villa Baker

… Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging … her employment possibilities, although she…

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1937-2002

Justice Gizenga Mpanza

… 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to school … violent battle with the state. Mpanza…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… friend John Gomas , she joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , aged 16. In the same year, she lost … in an anti-pass campaign. She was involved…

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1933-2009

Anton Ndoda Xaba

… John Luthuli . He played a prominent role in the formation of the Sobantu branch of the ANC.  Xaba was subsequently arrested and charged with …  He was later…

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… and from 1947 to 1950 he studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and obtained a BA(FA). In 1951 he … South Africa he joined the Non-European Affairs…

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… staying away from work on 16 and 17 June, at the height of the Soweto Uprising. Active in liberation politics since … the period 1980 to 1981, he was the…

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1966

Jodi Bieber

… assistant at the Star Newspaper under the guidance of the late Ken Oosterbroek. Bieber freelanced for that … on a various personal projects in South Africa…

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1939

Jonty Driver

… After completing his matric, he enrolled at the University of Cape Town. He got involved in the student movement and joined the National Union of South…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught him the basics of photography and he started working at the Daily Dispatch … and later at the New African in Durban…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… Act . They were charged and went to trial. Due to a lack of concrete evidence the pair was found guilty under the … the intent to commit immorality’. From…

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1820-1875

John Thomas Baines

… However, he soon rejected this profession in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William … north Australian expedition. He was elected…

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1907-1978

Hester Elizabeth Cornelius

… was born in 1912. Due to poor living conditions and lack of opportunities, in 1920 Hester together with her sister … During this period, white workers were…

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1954

Tony Sithembiso Yengeni

… Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town.  Yengeni was a member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) under the leadership of Steve Biko before joining the…

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1930-2008

Walter Sidney Felgate

… Boys High School in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in … was seconded to Lisbon University through…

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1974-2016

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

… for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the trial that she was named Kwhezi or Accuser X. Her family spent much of her early life in exile…

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1900-1975

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot…

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1879-1959

Marion Gill

… from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, … her true medium when she went to the…

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1940-2005

Nesta Mathom Nala

… valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe,…

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1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… 1888 he showed regularly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and still sent work to them after settling in SA. … His love for a woman named Ada…

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1952

Ari Sitas

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head…

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1960

Dumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula

… From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications and in…

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1905-1977

Hyman Meir Basner

… in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he studied law at the University of Califonia in Los Angeles in  the United States before … practice. he was a co-founder with Paul…

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Connie Mofokeng

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the…

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1906-1996

Laduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela

… myths in words and pictures. SchlÁ¶sser’s collation of his texts into a Bantubibel in 1977 in part addresses Christianity and its rejection of traditional…

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1922-1985

John Nyathi Pokela

… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth … years imprisonment in Robben Island for the activities of PAC armed wing Poqo …

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1950-2008

John Alfons Pandeni

… Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and … People’s Liberation Army of…

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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… in World War Two, he studied engineering at the University of Natal then and spent eight years in Britain. Later he studied politics and economics at Ruskin…

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