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1906-1968

Archibald Campbell Jordan

… Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of…

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1925-2000

Alfred Baphetuxolo Nzo

… born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, … actively involved in students politics…

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1908-1984

Frederick Hutchinson Page

… according to one critic, have made him known as ‘a kind of Hitchcock among painters’. Page always used a limited … that he limited his palette to black and…

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1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… he studied art under Walter Battiss at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of Pretoria…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated at the Bekezulu…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… the  Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) during the state of emergency after the banning of the organization in 1960. He soon became chairperson of the PAC in the…

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Billy Paddock

… Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now … His political consciousness was awakened at the University of Natal (now University of…

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1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, … and graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge at the…

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1925-1961

Patrice Émery Lumumba

… village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo ). . Lumumba’s tribe…

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1900-1976

Emil Sachs

… 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs', and his wife, … to him, the correct…

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1963

Roger Meintjes

… enlarger advertised in the under-R20 column in one of the Cape newspapers.  In 1985, Meintjes went to study at Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He became the secretary of the Laundry Workers Union as well as a member of the ANC in…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… Hindus and various followers split, following the marriage of the Indian government's agent, a Muslim, to a Hindu woman. An avid learner, Kajee read lot of…

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… through the ranks, ultimately becoming the Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s. Together … in addition to earning two diplomas in…

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1928-2010

Jean Clarice Middleton

… an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). Following this, she worked as a teacher. … Strachan , who was later imprisoned…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early 1940s, until her retirement in … . She married Jack Hodgson in 1945. The…

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1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… various student and youth organisations such as Congress of South African Students (COSAS) , the South African Youth … Congress (SASCO) and Young Christian…

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1932-2010

Sheena Duncan

… Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the … abroad to…

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1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes … initiates gathered in the indigenous bush in the…

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1939-2024

Breyten Breytenbach

… Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in … his high school years in Soweto, Mabasa…

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1917-1978

Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh

… on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to the Durban Indian Girls’…

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1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. The latter was the prime minister of…

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1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile Ngcuka. Phumzile Ngcuka became the Minister of Mineral and…

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1870-1938

Leo Rbc Francois

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite … but they came to nothing. His death in 1938…

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. … prison. He requested to join his father in the first batch of…

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1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, Booth was one of the earliest proponents of the principle of …

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1933

Mildred Lesiea

… Town in the 1930s. She grew up in the racially mixed area of Kensington. Her father, Sello Ramakaba, was from Lesotho … although they were classified as…

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Zulumathabo Zulu

… Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The…

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