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1954

Esdras Lusiba Ntloko

… spread through the greater Queenstown region in the wake of the 16 June Soweto uprising. Arrest and imprisonment on Robben Island At the age of 22, Ntloko…

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married…

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1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble … the way she served time in prison, following…

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1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … experiences with photography were as a teen when…

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1926

Leonora van den Heever

… went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the normaalkollege in … Brink, and began her LLB part-time…

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1941

Mannie Manim

… He worked for two years as a technical director of the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg when it opened, then … some years, eventually joining the Performing…

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His father, … on to Lovedale. As a result he became a…

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1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve … , she was involved in political…

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

… Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei . After the death of his first…

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

… Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong personality. In 1894-1895 he was … Dwane and his family moved to…

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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now … on 2 September 1947. He studied at the…

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1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… Cape Town . In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS) and President of its the social welfare arm…

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1930-1985

Molly Blackburn

… Molly Blackburn was born in 1930.  She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in Port…

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1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now ……

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1903-1979

Josie Palmer

… Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the … be with her husband, Edwin…

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1954-2008

John Matshikiza

… was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, Todd, was a … had an all-black cast. King Kong helped…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski…

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1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of these laws Cole was…

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1926-2021

Maniben Sita

…  (TIC) in 1928. He was an executive member and chairman of the Pretoria branch before becoming president of the TIC. Her father encouraged all seven of his…

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1951-1985

Sparrow Mkonto

… lived and worked under trying conditions. The average wage of a railway worker in Cradock in 1983 was R242/month.  He … a good living. Simmering discontent…

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1913-2009

Nöel Robb

… 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife, … in the First World War and was held as a…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi … family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of…

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1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… six years with  Daily News  he became chief subeditor of  The Northern Newspaper , which was serving the Copper … Ndola, Zambia. Five years later he became…

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Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to standard five [grade seven] level…

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1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

… London. Adelaide Tambo’s political life started at the age of 10 after a raid by the police, following an uprising in … entrenching apartheid, it became a…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… New York Times called her an actress 'who reads the soul' of Fugard. Bryceland's collaborations with Fugard were many … and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage…

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1917-1985

Jordan Kush Ngubane

… was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in … in 1937, Ngubane was offered the…

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1943-1980

Pierre Jacy Fourie

… a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. He grew … Martin, who earned but a meager income,…

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1786-1870

King Moshoeshoe I

… after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe…

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1891-1965

Dr Silas Modiri Molema

… in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief…

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