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1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… where he completed Standard Six (Grade Eight). At the age of 15 he became an apprentice upholsterer at a furniture … Union Following this, Bonhomme was…

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1943

Sindiwe Magona

… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona…

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Dawid Kruiper

… as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was the first son of the legendary San leader, Regopstaan Kruiper. Kruiper was the traditional leader and healer of the…

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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a … continuing for lower and superior courts)…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … Side Bar, and…

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four children. His father, a businessperson in the fishing … was six years old. His mother then…

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1935

Don Mattera

… grandparents not his parents. He grew up in the mixed area of Johannesburg called Sophiatown before the apartheid … people classified “Coloured” by the…

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1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to…

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1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his … his hand…

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1919-2005

Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng

… Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a mineworker and…

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1950

Martin Plaut

… Germany, but left in the 1930s due to the persecution of Jews. Plaut schooled at Saint Georges and from Standard 8 … his first degree in Social Science from…

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1952

Oupa Joshua Gqozo

… was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled … and Bodibeng Senior High School. In 1972 he…

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Joel Joffe

… Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, qualified as a … in the Rivonia Trial, where several leading…

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. … school years and as a consequence…

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1873-1905

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

… Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale ……

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1923-2013

Reginald (Reggie) September

… was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a … involvement began when he came under the…

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the…

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1932-1995

Barney Simon

… Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non-racial Market…

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from … the USA and Britain…

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife Frances ……

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1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…

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1949

Gill Marcus

… born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in … children in 1969. Marcus went on to study…

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1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning of his…

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1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of…

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Chauke Family

… Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific nor widely … not been promoted by any single art dealer…

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1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of…

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1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance with the country’s first post-independence … formed the People’s…

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2016

Juda Ngwenya

… (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he was approached by the renowned news wire … over two and half decades, Ngwenya…

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