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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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1893-1947

Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan

… Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold Medallist of Dublin University and became a D. Litt. in 1918…

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1932

Mimi Coertse

… vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and earning power. For seventeen years she … position in Vienna, where she reigned…

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… his political awareness was formed under the influence of his English teacher, Ben Kies.  After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for…

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1957

Saleem Badat

… Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and … from Boston University (United States),…

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town…

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

…  Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now … Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest…

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1921-2020

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

… father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his … mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced…

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1950-2008

Yunus Ismail Mahomed

… in 1967.  As a young scholar he became conscious of the inequities of the apartheid system. The train journey that he daily … white suburbs that contrasted…

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1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, … was Mokgatle Mokgatle (Sekete) the…

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1924-2020

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

… known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a … His father, Mr E.V. Narasa Reddy, was a follower of…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from … in Cape Town as a fitter at the Salt River…

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Molefe Pheto

… teacher. In 1970, as a young man he was active member of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BMCA) for which he was detained in 1975. He was the…

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1823-1888

Johannes Henricus Brand

… Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape … was born in Cape Town…

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1925-2013

Colin Wells Eglin

… He grew up in Pinelands, Cape Town, but moved at the age of nine to live with his aunt, outside Hobhouse, Eastern Free … learner. The tension between the…

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1935

Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs

… , had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray, had arrived as an infant. Both of his…

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1954-2019

Paul Grendon

… art as a medium to shed light on the political struggles of the time. His work will go on to leave a deep and … Africans as a whole.  Paul was born in the…

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1923-2003

Maggie Resha

… Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia Mamodise Tsiu, who had…

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1923-2003

Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha

… Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape . She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia Mamodise Tsiu, who…

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1879-1958

Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha

… Genealogical Tree Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha, the son of Dukuza, was born on 19 July 1879 at the Noodsberg Mission Station in the County of Victoria,…

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1884-1933

Richard Msimang

… Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange ……

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1931-1972

Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane

… in 21 January 1931 in Moria. His father is the founder of the  Zion Christian Church (ZCC)  in 1910. He attended … him closer to various church leaders and…

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1847-1932

Harriette Emily Colenso

… was born in Norfolk, England, in 1847, the oldest child of Bishop John William Colenso of Natal. Until her father's death in 1883, she acted as his assistant…

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1814-1882

King Sekhukhune

… Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like  Moshoeshoe …

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1963

Robert John McBride

… were a White Afrikaner bus driver from the rural village of Harding in southern Natal, and a Coloured daughter of a Zulu-speaking mother and a Coloured…

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1926-2009

Gerrit Viljoen

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated to … and…

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1926

Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated to … and…

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1936

Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker

… attended Durban High School,graduated from the University of Natal in 1961,completed an honors degree at University of South Africa,and later master's degree…

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2006

Daniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi

… education at Sekano Ntoane, Soweto, in 1976. He was part of a religious youth movement and from his experiences in the … he began organising unemployed…

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are now both pensioners. He grew … High School in…

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