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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After … and Cable Workers” Union in Howick…

B-0008136

1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. Most of Lekota’s schooling was completed in Kroonstad. He … soccer field.  In 1971,…

B-0008313

Joel Joffe

… Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, qualified as a … in the Rivonia Trial, where several leading…

B-0066325

1932

Amy Thornton

… sixteen years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist … the Springbok Legion , a progressive…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the…

B-0008190

1932-1995

Barney Simon

… Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non-racial Market…

B-0095118

1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…

B-0008814

1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife Frances ……

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1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… in politics in 1940 when he was elected chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, number 2 branch of the Transvaal, a position he held until1953 . That same…

B-0068220

1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…

B-0008709

1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning of his…

B-0008027

1949

Gill Marcus

… born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in … children in 1969. Marcus went on to study…

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1927-2019

Ben Turok

… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came … South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the…

B-0068644

1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of…

B-0007829

1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High School, … he matriculated in 1997. He graduated…

B-0125899

1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of…

B-0095025

1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and for some years … State. Educated at Healdtown…

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Chauke Family

… Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific nor widely … not been promoted by any single art dealer…

B-0007936

1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance with the country’s first post-independence … formed the People’s…

B-0124602

1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… against racism and apartheid. She was a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists (UBJ), serving as its assistant secretary-treasurer, and also a…

B-0080693

2016

Juda Ngwenya

… (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he was approached by the renowned news wire … over two and half decades, Ngwenya…

B-0123560

1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…

B-0007802

1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at … the Stofberg Gedenkskool (Stofberg Memorial School) of the…

B-0008627

1933

Motsoko Pheko

… in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his brother came to South Africa … their aunt, E.M. Moerane. In 1960, Pheko…

B-0081677

1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, … family moved to KwaMashu. It was the…

B-0070371

1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in … on to serve in various capacities in…

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1924-1999

Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia

… Congress movement in Baroda, and served several terms of imprisonment in that country, before returning to Durban … Babenia worked as a journalist for the…

B-0122927

1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 years.  He was in one of the White…

B-0008914

1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… Loots had not had the courage and integrity, in the face of considerable pressure, to report the truth’. [ii] However, beyond this significant event are…

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