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1956

Dr Hersheela Narsee

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School … In…

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2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later…

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1697-1734

Jan Smiesing

… was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved … by the actions it witnesses as much as by…

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1933-1993

Eschel Mostert Rhoodie

… Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of…

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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

… studied as a non-degree student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 1987. He has exhibited both in South Africa … his works…

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland … for further theological studies. In…

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1921-1993

Andries Treurnicht

… he enrolled in 1942 for an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a student at the Stellenbosch … Seminary until 1945. During these years he…

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… the interpreter for African languages at the Supreme Court of Griqualand West at Kimberley””a post which he held for … years while he was promoting the…

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four … with additional income.   He matriculated…

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1964

Berni Searle

… When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist Statement’ was, she replied, … statement’ as such. Being a woman is only…

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1941

Sue Williamson

… an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (UCT). Williamson was trained as a … issues pertaining to civil activism,…

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1930-2018

David Goldblatt

… David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…

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1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

… She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square society…

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1886-1963

Hendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn

… in Utrecht, Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan…

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1941

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) where she graduated with BA in 1963 … Unity Movement…

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1866-1942

James Barry Munnik Hertzog

… (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a descendant of a…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… attracted to Marxism at 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group was left-wing and multi-racial, mostly Indians, many of…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport operator who ran a ……

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained…

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1935

Solomon Kerzner

… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. … South africa, 1979. Spread across the…

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within…

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal , a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an interest in art as a child, and by the age of…

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1931-2018

Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'

… 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist … In 1956, Boraine was ordained and received…

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and … French polishing and the buying and…

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1923-2013

Denis Mayer

… Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the … Light Horse unit in the Anglo-Boer War . On…

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1910-1977

Percy John "Jack" Hodgson

… born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John … until she remarried a few years later…

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress  (ANC) from December 1952 … was the most widely known and…

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting … support him. This…

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Thomas G. Karis

… Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South African liberation…

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