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1812-1893

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

… near Winburg, where he joined the Voortrekker group of the population, hostile to H. D.Warden. Together with five … Released after a few months, he took part…

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1930-1978

Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum

… “Papwa” Sewsunker Sewgolum was born in 1930, into a family of poor sugarcane labourers in Natal. He started working at … as an exceptional player. Sewgolum…

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1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… Gauteng , in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her father was the nephew of Samuel Matshoba, an adviser to Gijima,…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final exams in … a degree in Industrial sociology at…

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1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her … Primary School and then the Public Secondary School, both of…

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1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… year he assisted in collecting ‘freedom demands’ as part of the African National Congress  (ANC)’s process of writing the Freedom Charter . In 1957 Mtshali…

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Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels … renaming it De Middelburg Getuige, and increased…

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1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… Letele, was a school inspector. His mother, Catherine, was of Xhosa decent. The Letele family immigrated to South Africa … later became Fort Hare University,…

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1934-2006

Vusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make

… Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist  Episcopal minister,Make…

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1916-2015

Sarah Carneson

… with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in the backyard of the family home (297 Bree Street, Johannesburg). Carneson’s parents were founding members of…

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Dan Tloome

… the Communist Party. In 1941 he was chosen vice-president of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions. He remained a leader in this … the mid-1950s, also…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University, United Kingdom…

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1958

Jonathan Shapiro

… in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not imagine a career in architecture, so … work as a cartoonist began in earnest…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… in local and world politics - particularly politics of the Soviet Union as well as the relationship between … return to South Africa he was assigned to the…

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1851-1919

Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino

… intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the pages of the fortnightly newspaper that he produced for Black … …

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1948

Randolph Hartzenberg

… a Higher Diploma Drama in Education from the University of Cape Town in 1989, educating has been a huge part of his professional life. He taught art at…

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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…

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1870-1946

Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo

… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s…

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … and taken to Pietermaritzberg where…

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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her … parents who were English immigrants…

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1949

Norman Catherine

… 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibitionin 1969. This exhibition consisted of oil paintings on wood,…

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1936

George Sewpersadh

… as their property was taken over by the then Department of Community Development. He first attended Manor Gardens … and continued his tertiary education at…

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting…

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1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton , … surveyor and her mother, Emmy…

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1932-2016

Diana Mary Mitchell

… a liberal politician opposing the White minority regime of Ian Smith's Rhodesia. Her birth name was Diana Mary Coates … Diana travelled to Cape Town to…

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's … schools, he only began his schooling at the…

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1950

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

… Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as Mpumalanga Province. He was the second of six children,…

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1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the…

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1940

Mary Maria Burton

… born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved … as a journailst and in…

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1938

Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn

… living side by side. She was raised in the home of her grandparents with her older brother and sister. When … World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances…

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