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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

… Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following ……

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… Congress (NIC) against the then conservative leadership of the organisation. After matriculating in 1937, he joined … from Amra’s home on Milton Road, Durban…

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1924-1992

Zuleika Sarojini Christopher

… Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in … she also grew up. Advocate Albert…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead of her time.  Though credited with introducing a modern school of sculpture to South Africa during…

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1961

Jo Ractliffe

… is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the…

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1919-2000

Mary Dorothy Benson

… her early education. Born into the privileged world of servants and country clubs, Benson’s early ambitions were … where she would eventually end up. The…

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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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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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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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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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1880

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

… born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began … His efforts impressed his employer 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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