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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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