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1995

Enver Hassim

… Enver Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His … beginnings did not stop him from…

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1891-1955

Dora Nginza

… Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…

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1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s,…

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1918-1973

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus

… the school rugby team. During the Great Depression of the 1930's he was forced to leave school and seek … to scrub trams and buses. He was elevated to the…

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1956-1985

Andries Raditsela

… became deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (CWIU), an affiliate of the Federation of South African…

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1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… Hoërskool School in 1958. He was head boy and captain of the first rugby and cricket teams. In 1959 he began … studying towards a B.A. Classics degree at the…

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1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member…

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1798-1872

King Mpande kaSenzangakhona

… Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. He was a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both…

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1941-2010

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche

… nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was a French Huguenot refugee named … the then  South African Defence Force…

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1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… Town’s southern suburbs. He was the youngest in a family of five, and still an infant when Asa Martin, his mother … Sadan, Hattas, Galant and Ganief families…

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James Ford

… England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever showing with the Society.Holiday…

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1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise … eight (Grade Ten…

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… she went to Johannesburg and while there she met members of the Communist Party. She later joined the party and became … was married, the Ponnen household in…

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed away in … in Transkei. He also attended the Mount…

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1925

Tamsanqa Tasque Tshume

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was … Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles, Gladstone…

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1897-1979

Edgar Harry Brookes

… in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the University of Pretoria while working towards a doctorral degree which he … he joined the Liberal Party in March…

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1874-1932

Daniel Simon Letanka

… Letanka was born at Saulspoort in the Rustenburg district of the Transvaal in 1874 and attended the Native College in … in the northern Transvaal. In 1912,…

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1897-1986

Gertrud Theiler

… Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, ……

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1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

… father Gana Makabeni  was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced … studies at secondary school and at the…

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1770

Chief Dingiswayo

… Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand … or Ngodongwa) life. But as far as we know, towards…

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1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… School. In 1941, he obtained a BA degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. He served with the South African forces … honours in jurisprudence. He was…

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1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families forcibly removed from Alexandra Township, North of Johannesburg. This phase of forced…

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1920-1973

Robert M. Resha

… Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal school and in his late teens went to work as a … in Johannesburg around 1940. He later…

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1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young and Uys … his way through the George Bernard Shaw…

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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he was a member of the Progressive Forum. In 1951, two of Dundee’s sons, Karrim Essack and Dr Limbada returned from … at Wits…

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1951

Patricia De Lille

… West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children in an Afrikaans-speaking coloured family. … joined the SACWU. After SACWU became a…

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1922-2013

Vesta Smith

… in Vrededorp did not last long as the government’s policy of forced removals soon compelled them to resettle in … Soweto. Smith was eighteen years old. She…

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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

… Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following ……

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1924-1992

Zuleika Sarojini Christopher

… Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in … she also grew up. Advocate Albert…

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1886-1955

Richard Victor Selope Thema

… African War (Anglo-Boer War 2) . After the declaration of peace he went to Pretoria where he first worked as waiter … in 1907 and then qualified as a teacher…

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