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1931-2016

Lulu Dube

… in establishing the Ohlange school , which all of his children attended. The school started from first year … unknown, but image from The First President: A…

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Keable Mote

… the Orange Free State. With Clements Kadalie, he was one of the first Africans prosecuted under the Native Administration Act of 1927, which made it an…

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1910

Pitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane

… Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the  African National Congress  in Natal in the 1950s. As … a pharmacy. In 1952, while serving as…

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1945

Professor Raymond Suttner

… Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg…

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1912-1974

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

… forming the Garment Worker’s Union (GWU) with the help of Emil Solomon Sachs . Johanna quickly got involved in the … years. Many workers also got involved in…

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1934-2013

Ian Berry

… him as an immigrant and taught him the technical basics of photography while employing him as an assistant. Berry … his own studio, but became bored with the…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South … weSizwe (MK). He was imprisoned for…

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1966-1986

Andrew Sibusiso Zondo

… an interest in politics at a young age and by the age of 16, became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and went into exile in Mozambique , after…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… (later Fort Hare), and was installed as paramount chief of western Pondoland in 1918. He was progressive as a chief, … Council. From 1937 until 1951 he was a…

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1909-1984

Joan Hoskyn Davies

… Transvaal Archives Depot. In 1957 she was appointed head of the new Liaison Department, and was involved with … After a period in England, Davies was…

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1986

Blessing Mabaso

… Botha, Johannes Steyn and Laurence Wasserman for killing of Blessing Mabaso, Brian Memela, Luvuyo Mgobozi and Mbongeni … on the N2 highway in Durban. The…

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

…  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two years later became the editor of its monthly magazine,He was the…

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1963

Alson Ntshangase

… School; he had to leave school in Standard 9 due to lack of finances. He is largely self-taught as an artist. He … houses. He moved to Durban in 1982 where…

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1864-1977

Oscar Hollander

… Germany, 1864. He lived in SA from 1889; date and place of death not known. Information on Oscar Hollander, who … studied for a time under the latter. It is…

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1906-1967

George John Golding

… in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then Cape Town. He was chairman of the Coloured Advisory Council, set up in 1943, and was … He was a founding member in 1944 and…

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Yazeed Kamaldien

… at Peninsula Technikon, which he completed in 2001. Part of the course was a section on photojournalism. Extra lessons … in photography included a short…

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1921

Thembile Benson Ndimba

… Came to active politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten and one of Korsten's leaders since then. … Active…

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1925-2020

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

… Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of a twin (he has a sister). He grew up in Soweto, … (now Gauteng). He was the ninth child in a family…

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1932

Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

… 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua Matsepe, senior police sergeant and the grandson of Chief Bloeu of the Kopa tribe. Although…

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Stanley Silwana

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League … was jailed for…

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1914

Josepha Selhorst

… Mariannhill, Natal from 1951-52. Selhorst made a number of study tours to Europe, living there from 1971-1980 and … from 1949 in South Africa and Italy and…

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1949

Michael Lapsley

… Born in New Zealand on the 2nd of June, 1949. At the age of seven, Michael entered the Society of Sacred Mission and then dropped his first name “Allan” to …

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1940

Ela Gandhi

… and iron house where she lived in for the first six years of her life. Her father later built a dwelling out of bricks. Initially her parents educated her at…

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1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

… as a mining and property magnate as a clerk in the firm of Schiffman and Company in Pretoria, and quickly rose to a managerial position. However, with the…

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1946

Deton (Tito) Zungu

… first as a gardener and then as a cook. In 1970 a friend of Zungu's showed his work to his employer Mary Clarke, who brought it to the attention of Jo Thorpe…

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1901

John Stephen Gomas

… near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced mother,he completed most of his school before moving with his mother to the Malay Camp …

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1924-1960

Ephraim Chaka

… every day to work. Chaka worked as a block-man at one of the local butcher shops. Ephraim Chaka's bicycle that he rode on the day he was killed On 21 March…

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1967

Sparks Mahamba

… Sparks Mahamba was a member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we Sizwe  (MK). Mahamba was killed in the Third Battle of the Wankie…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music director Stanley ‘Spike’ … him musically, handing him his…

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… the “Young Turks” gathered around him. Towards the end of 1912 Botha dismissed  J B M Hertzog  from his cabinet and Roos protested by demonstrating at the…

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