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1868-1913

King Dinuzulu

… Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration…

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1937

Adriaan Vlok

… where he matriculated in 1956. Following three months of military training in Pretoria during 1957, he began work for the Department of Justice in the…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…

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1893-1947

Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan

… Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold Medallist of Dublin University and became a D. Litt. in 1918…

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1932

Mimi Coertse

… vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and earning power. For seventeen years she … position in Vienna, where she reigned…

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1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was born of a musical family. Her grandfather and…

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1957

Saleem Badat

… Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and … from Boston University (United States),…

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1925-1983

Cassim Mohammed Bassa

… was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a businessman, and his wife Fathima. … to work as a research…

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1954

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  Walter  and  ……

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town…

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1826-1884

King Cetshwayo

… King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…

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1938

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya…

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

…  Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now … Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest…

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1891-1922

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

… in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home … he was ten years old and went coal…

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1927-1978

Philemon Pearce Nokwe

… school situated in Rosettenville, and not the school of the same name at Crown Mines.) Nokwe then proceeded to the South African Native College (University…

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1921-2020

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

… father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his … mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced…

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1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, … was Mokgatle Mokgatle (Sekete) the…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth … He was also active in campaigns against forced…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD … FÁ¼r Bildende…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from … in Cape Town as a fitter at the Salt River…

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Molefe Pheto

… teacher. In 1970, as a young man he was active member of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BMCA) for which he was detained in 1975. He was the…

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1823-1888

Johannes Henricus Brand

… Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape … was born in Cape Town…

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1925-2013

Colin Wells Eglin

… He grew up in Pinelands, Cape Town, but moved at the age of nine to live with his aunt, outside Hobhouse, Eastern Free … learner. The tension between the…

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Myron Peter

… (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN]. Following the student boycotts in…

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1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

… Soweto . His parents were among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a pupil at St. Mary’s … (now St. Martin’s, Victoria) until 1955…

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1929-2024

James Matthews

… standard seven, Matthews began to work and held a variety of jobs, including newspaper boy, office messenger, clerk and telephonist. However, for Matthews,…

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1935

Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs

… , had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray, had arrived as an infant. Both of his…

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1954-2019

Paul Grendon

… art as a medium to shed light on the political struggles of the time. His work will go on to leave a deep and … Africans as a whole.  Paul was born in the…

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