SAHO global search

1919-1998

George Naicker

… George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the  Natal … he was banned for five years. Apart from being a member of the Natal…

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1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited means. He studied at the School of Optic and Photechnic in Berlin and worked as an apprentice …

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… spiritual quest.  He embraced and explored aspects of the Islamic mystical tradition called Sufism. For the purposes of this biography he will be referred to…

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga . She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula and Thembisile) of Ernestinah and Matthew Simelane. She  graduated on 15…

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1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in the…

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1991

Mokgadi Caster Semenya

… later went on to study Sports Science at the University of North West. In the African Junior Championships in 2009, … won both the 800 meters (m) and 1500m…

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Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and formed the South … Students Organization (SASO) in July 1968. At…

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… for a Diploma in Commercial Art at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT, now Durban University of Technology) in 1962. She also did part-time studies with…

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1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings died in childhood. Mhlaba attended school at ……

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1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, further … their municipality. Barenblatt later…

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1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where his father was a principal at a … first piano lessons. He also became…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s … He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km)…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… became a full-time organiser for the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions. Whilst he was working for the Council, it joined the  South African…

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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… to study further, and it was there that she learned of the detention of her adored elder brother, Jack Tarshish, during the state of emergency , which…

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… Nomkhosi  Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National ……

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the…

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1942-1985

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

… morning after his murder. She vehemently refuted the claim of police General Coetzee that the African National Congress … to his contribution in the struggle…

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… Jan de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de Klerk, a political analyst and one…

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1903-1966

Edward “Eddie” Roux

… Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up … In 1923 he joined the CPSA and was drawn…

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… in MK camps until 1979 when he was deployed as Chief of Logistics in Luanda, Angola. He later served in ANC Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia as the co…

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following … in executing murals as a teenager, using a…

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1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made … minded students in establishing a…

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1893-1975

Max Yergan

… born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield … 1920 to 1936 he lived in South Africa as…

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1932-2012

Sister Bernard Ncube

… in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was elected president of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) . Sister Ncube was detained six … attention, she was…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a crusader for better … following…

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1923

James “Jobe” Hadebe

… 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, he became a teacher and active member of the…

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1925-1961

Frantz Fanon

… He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His…

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1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, … several books and wrote poetry to accompany…

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… dairy farm in Lady Selbourne, and later joined the staff of the Pretoria General Hospital. He joined the African … (ANC) in 1957 in Lady Selbourne after…

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