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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of … for the eastern…

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1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… During the  1976 uprisings , Mokaba became a leader of school boycotts, which led to his expulsion from school. … own in 1978 and then went on to enrol with…

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1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's ……

B-0007956

1936

Luli Callinicos

… Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the … involved in the trade union movement.  She became a…

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1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a member of the…

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1925

Gertrude Shope

… Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to boycott Bantu Education . She moved onto … From 1958 to 1966 Shope was the…

B-0068449

1950

Siphiwe Nyanda

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…

B-0008841

1950

Mandla Langa

… now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up in the KwaMashu township outside Durban . He is one of nine children in his…

B-0099280

1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government…

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1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to his last day. He threw himself into the work of linking the struggle for socialism…

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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade … was very active in the African…

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1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and…

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1911-1991

Taubie Kushlick

… Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to ……

B-0008289

1950

Biddy Partridge

… None But Ourselves: The media and the masses in the making of Zimbabwe , with Julie Frederikse. This involved interviewing and photographing hundreds of…

B-0008865

1895-1983

Rev. James Arthur Calata

… and in national church affairs, serving as president of the Inter-denominational African Ministers' Federation … studying for the Anglican ministry.He joined…

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1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

… Doctor. Her mother, Helen Evelyn Zondagh, was a descendant of the Voortekker leader Jacobus Johannes Uys. Margaret was the youngest of their three children. …

B-0100307

1956

Chris Ledochowski

… Certificates, Ledochowski attended the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in Poland for several months as a visiting … to obtain a diploma in Fine Arts at the…

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1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

… Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University Education … a year. She was offered a scholarship by…

B-0122528

1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… medicine in Bombay, India, from 1939. It was at the height of the Indian struggle for liberation against British … He was the second Black doctor to do so…

B-0008657

1952

Barbara Anne Hogan

… Convent School. She then registered at the University of Witwatersrand where she obtained a degree in Development Studies. While at Wits, Hogan joined a…

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… Simultaneously he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior … he was based for ten years. It was here…

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