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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland … for further theological studies. In…

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1921-1993

Andries Treurnicht

… he enrolled in 1942 for an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a student at the Stellenbosch … Seminary until 1945. During these years he…

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1924-2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

… Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of Gabriel Matibili, a migrant worker from Nyasaland (Malawi) … the same time, Robert’s oldest…

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… the interpreter for African languages at the Supreme Court of Griqualand West at Kimberley””a post which he held for … years while he was promoting the…

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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina … Johanna…

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1941

Sue Williamson

… an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (UCT). Williamson was trained as a … issues pertaining to civil activism,…

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1964

Berni Searle

… When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist Statement’ was, she replied, … statement’ as such. Being a woman is only…

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… "Nothing Can Match the singleness of purpose, the foresight, or tenacity through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set…

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1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

… She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square society…

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1886-1963

Hendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn

… in Utrecht, Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… attracted to Marxism at 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group was left-wing and multi-racial, mostly Indians, many of…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport operator who ran a ……

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained…

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1935

Solomon Kerzner

… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. … South africa, 1979. Spread across the…

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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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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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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within…

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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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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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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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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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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his … wife. His father's descent was English and his mother…

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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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1936-2012

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander

… Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and … maternal grandmother) had been freed off…

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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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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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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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1956

Patric Tariq Mellet

… Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. … people from what was regarded as a…

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