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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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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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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1958

Michael Sedgwick

… with a teacher, Virginia Engel, who was a former member of the Drama Society (Dramsoc) at the University of the Western Cape. She acted, in some of Adam…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up … estate outside Oxford where he…

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1938-2016

Judith Mason

… Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She … 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the…

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1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school education at Orlando West High … for the Transvaal and South Africa…

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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments of King Shaka. The family later moved on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) in the Sotho region of…

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1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

… near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … exhibition with two nyamisoro figures …

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1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… he won a scholarship to read English at the University of Ibadan. He taught briefly at the University of Lagos after graduating in 1965. But he soon left…

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1920-2008

Brian Percy Bunting

… Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at  the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of  Sidney Percival Bunting  and  Rebecca…

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… found work at the Crown Mines in Johannesburg as secretary of Reverend Anderson, a welfare officer at the mine. When the … year, in 1953 he found work at the…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

… The implication was clear, many Afrikaners, including some of their political leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler … moved to Israel to fight in the Arab…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, who was a pupil of composition and…

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… finally settling in Swekwati Kamamole. In 1945, at the age of seven he was sent to live with his aunt in Alexander … He started attending primary school at…

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1949

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

… 1967 and began her tertiary studies 1971 at the University of Zululand . She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Science … country in 1976 to complete her MB ChB…

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and … Viktor and Jac Buchner started Vlakplaas, a…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He was the first of three sons born to Manabeng and Dibetle Johanna Mamogobo. … Manabeng was a farm worker. The…

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1967

Francois Pienaar

… to Rand Afrikaner University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg. Pienaar enrolled for Law degree at the … Pienaar interests in rugby grew. He…

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1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a … which was featured in the November/December…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was … nine months in the navy and enrolled at the…

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1956

Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini

… Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then … spent close to four years in the…

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1871-1936

Eugene Marais

… Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the …

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1915

Gopallal Hurbans

… Indian schools in the Tongaat district and was chairman of the Natal Vigilance Committee which protested against the … Areas Act. He was Vice-President and…

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi …

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was…

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1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

… (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree from the University of…

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