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1944

Kevin Dowling

… Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 July 1967. He was appointed the Bishop of …

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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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1960

David Dabede Mabuza

… a National Teacher’s Certificate from Mngwenya College of Education in 1985. He furthered his studies at University of South Africa (UNISA) with Bachelor of…

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1892

Herbert Henry Curson

… Herbert Henry Curson, the eldest son of Henry Charles Curson, was born on 22 September 1892 in … this time he won 14 medals and qualified as a member of the…

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1892-1975

Haile Selassie I

… was Lij Tafari Makonnen. He was the only surviving son of the governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael. Selassie traced his … back to Menelik I, who was…

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1956

Dr Hersheela Narsee

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School … In…

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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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1697-1734

Jan Smiesing

… was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved … by the actions it witnesses as much as by…

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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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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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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

… studied as a non-degree student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 1987. He has exhibited both in South Africa … his works…

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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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1964

Berni Searle

… When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist Statement’ was, she replied, … statement’ as such. Being a woman is only…

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1941

Sue Williamson

… an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (UCT). Williamson was trained as a … issues pertaining to civil activism,…

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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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1886-1963

Hendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn

… in Utrecht, Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan…

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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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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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1931-2018

Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'

… 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist … In 1956, Boraine was ordained and received…

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1923-2013

Denis Mayer

… Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the … Light Horse unit in the Anglo-Boer War . On…

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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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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress  (ANC) from December 1952 … was the most widely known and…

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting … support him. This…

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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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