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1924

Ben Baartman

… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines…

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1964

Ntela Richard Sikhosana

… Exiled person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist … returned to South Africa he joined…

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1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… Sabbai before attending  English school . At the young age of 11, she became a pupil teacher, earning a salary of 10 shillings.Her parents, R.K. Naidoo and…

B-0008116

1961

Dali Tambo

… Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife … and later went on to study at the American University of Paris where he…

B-0122793

1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… possible that Maxeke's birth place was confused with that of her husband, who was born in Middledrift in the Cape … also possible that her birth place was…

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1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway … (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents were…

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1871-1952

Dr. Hans Merensky

… studied geology and mine engineering at the State Academy of Mining and the University of Berlin, Germany, and passed with honours. He completed his … region…

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1950

Peter Jones

… Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape . Jones after … in 1976, he became politically active  at the…

B-0008211

1915-2003

Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima

… Kaiser  Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in … Bantu Authorities Act in the 1950s, the Bunga, the…

B-0008481

1792-1852

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

… Graaff Reinet  district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella Margaretha and Hermanus Potgieter. He fought…

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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. … boy. His pieces included walking…

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1943

Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi

… in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … Sebidi was from a humble family, and…

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1913-1970

Debi Singh

… a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was … in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker…

B-0009064

1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at … home in Ocean View, when she shared some…

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended … while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the University…

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1912-1957

Gladstone Xala Tshume

… Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a … he was employed in a pharmacy and…

B-0068642

1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the court of the Gcaleka paramount chief, he was elected to the district council…

B-0008979

1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a … degrees from that university, that she received her…

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1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate … degree in law at the Turfloop University …

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David Anderson

… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and…

B-0068170

1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… in May 10 in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he completed a … His doctoral dissertation, published…

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1955

Michael Davis

… Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art…

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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and … agriculture at Adams College and then beginning…

B-0068294

1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the…

B-0096556

1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

B-0008145

1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… National organiser of the  African National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1950s and … was born in 1923 in the Transkei and was a member of the Tembu royal house…

B-0008232

1939-1997

Enos Mabuza

… Headmaster in 1964, and by 1968 was appointed Headmaster of Khumbula High School in White River. He was appointed Inspector of Education in 1972, to become…

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1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… she wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She … home after her bus was stopped by police. The…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… London.He and Mosie Moolla later became joint secretaries of the transvaal Indian Youth Congress.In 1952 Desai founded … as coloured. He succeeded James La…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was approached by a friend who asked him to become a member…

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