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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on the south coast of Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. In early November 1959, Mnyandu … Native Commissioner (NC) in…

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Stephen Mini

… He was an early leader of the  African National Congress  (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…

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1958

Rooha Variava

… a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree … and her Masters in Philosophy in 1982…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … job that opened his eyes to the poverty…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… as it was an honour for Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer in both the city and the country. The formal announcement of the renaming…

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for White students. She…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying … on their marriage. It depicts the ways…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was marginal - letters to the press, membership of the non-racial…

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1976

William Nomodi Tshwane

… dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family … report concerning the death released by…

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1870-1956

Honorine Margaret Withers

… Australian landscapes in Johannesburg. Always in pursuit of views, she often arrived uninvited on remote farms … The Press romanticised her as an artist in…

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1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee of the  African…

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1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he … Elizabeth in the early 1950s, he later…

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1940-1984

Gabriel Kee Kuboni

… Jabu, recalls that her grandfather, Julius, wrote a book of poems called Umlondolozi , which is now lost. He received … self-trained as a sculptor. According…

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1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… for the Kampen town, and later promoted to a position of a second secretary. At that time he was married to Arnelia … child, Julie Philippe Augusta de Mist…

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1919

Joseph Albert Mokoena

… between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1967

Hein du Plessis

… a photographer at the Corporate Relations Department of Technikon Free State whilst working on a number of personal documentary photographic projects. …

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Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata

… Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), culminated …

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one…

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1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… (1844-1893), a former teacher at the Cape Town School of Art in the 1870s. He brought a number of tese with him, for five of them, along with fourteen Cape…

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1937-1999

Marius Schoon

… 22 June 1937 in Johannesburg. He attended the University of Stellenbosch. Schoon moved to the University of Witwatersrand to continue with his post-graduate…

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1927

Joseph Morolong

… in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from … confinement…

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1935-2009

Cassim Saloojee

… poor. Saloojee began his school in Sophiatown at the age of 6. He was unhappy in the beginning as his clothes were old … was more important, and pointed to…

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1904-2002

Ernest Methuen Mancoba

… wood carving there from Sister Pauline CR. On completion of his course, he remained at the College teaching Zulu until … In 1933, Mancoba enrolled as a…

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T. J. Lemon

… High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an interest in photography … pharmacy. After winning the "Nikon…

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du Plessis … his B.Sc. degree in 1960 at Potchefstroom…

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1928-1993

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli

… Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange … in the Soviet Union ,and at one time…

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1890-1841

Ruth Elizabeth Arndt

… Arndt set about informing the government on the importance of pre-school education. She served as honorary secretary, … chairperson, president and honorary…

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1930

Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

… in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of the…

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1947

Phillmon Velangetshe Sangweni

… company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. Sangweni no lives in the Empangeni district where he works as a sculptor of figures and…

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Joseph Nkatlo

… Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the December 1960 consultative conference of African leaders in…

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