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1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall … words, she acquired "an…

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1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His father was … man who decided to move to South…

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1897-1962

Richard Granville Baloyi

… Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a taxi owner. In…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

… Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian, Coloured mother and a Muslim shopkeeper. He … by his father Yusuf Howa,…

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1932-2002

Soromini Kallichurum

… kwaZulu-Natal ). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at the ‘non-White’ section of the University of Natal. She…

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1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

… England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, Georgiana…

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1953

Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

… Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953  Durban . She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone … She obtained a BA in…

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1931-1998

Justice John Mowbray Didcott

… (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in … president from 1952 to 1954. He was also…

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1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal . Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation…

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Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern…

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1961

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

… the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) .  He co-founded the … in 1983 and was elected as…

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1929-2026

Leon Levy

… Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, he was educated…

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1953

Penny Siopis

… Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the…

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1952

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

… (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew … Sibasa, Limpopo …

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the … is appropriate because it is a modern…

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1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial … however, is that Queen Njinga's rise to power as a woman of…

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1952

Glenn Moss

… Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He … attended Pretoria Boys High. On…

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1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was … his parents…

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1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, graduating from the law … children. Following his graduation, he…

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1881-1951

Pixley ka Isaka Seme

… Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…

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1946-2010

Paul Alberts

… Paul Alb   erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, … Seunsskool in 1963 after which he attended the University of Pretoria but…

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1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family … steps. In 1970, David Webster joined…

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1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal Republic to ……

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1946

Malcolm Payne

… "First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the … more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness of the game." Malcolm Payne…

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1639-1712

Simon van der Stel

… der Stel’s father duly became the first Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Mauritius. [1] His mother Maria was the daughter of Hendrik…

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1948

Alec Erwin

… School in 1965. He then went to study at the University of Natal and received a B.Econ Honours degree in Economics in … his degree he became a lecturer in…

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1840-1887

Johannes Jane Tane Kekana

… was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife NaMahlangu, a member of…

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1450-1500

Bartolomeu Dias

… He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven…

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1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor … witnessed the military defeat and…

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