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1945

Omar Badsha

… up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the country's small but influential Gujarati Vhora Muslim … from India in the first decade…

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1953

Sandile Ngcobo

… 1953 in Durban, South Africa.  Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and 1976. In 1975 Ngcobo graduated from the…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the left-wing newspaper New Age . In the 1940s he was one of those responsible for bringing…

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1949-2024

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

… The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…

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1863-1928

Henry Reed Ngcayiya

… Aliwal North. In the 1890s he was ordained as a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC), but after a … Church in South Africa and by 1910…

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1953

Edwin Cameron

… Cameron later attained his LLB from the University of South Africa cum laude, and was awarded the Johannes Voet … 1986 conducted a human rights practice from…

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2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later…

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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of Miriam and Ezekiel Modise. Modise completed his Junior … his family's income. His parents impressed…

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1925-1988

Dr. Connie Mulder

… Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma … German in Randfontein. He also…

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1933-1993

Eschel Mostert Rhoodie

… Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of…

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1925-1988

Cornelius Petrus Mulder

… Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma … German in Randfontein. He also…

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland … for further theological studies. In…

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… the interpreter for African languages at the Supreme Court of Griqualand West at Kimberley””a post which he held for … years while he was promoting the…

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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina … Johanna…

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four … with additional income.   He matriculated…

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1930-2018

David Goldblatt

… David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…

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1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

… She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square society…

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1929-2021

Norman Levy

… Leon (a founding member and later the National President of the South African Congress of Trade Unions [SACTU]) were the youngest of four children. Levy…

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1941

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) where she graduated with BA in 1963 … Unity Movement…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport operator who ran a ……

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained…

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1932-2016

Mewa Ramgobin

… in Greyville, Durban. He enrolled at the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal-UKZN) and was active in the National Union of South African…

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within…

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal , a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an interest in art as a child, and by the age of…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… and he credited him for instilling in him an informed love of books. At the age of 16, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT…

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Thomas G. Karis

… Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South African liberation…

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1868-1913

King Dinuzulu

… Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his … wife. His father's descent was English and his mother…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…

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