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1942

Vera Gow (Adams)

… in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In…

B-0008119

1880

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

… born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began … His efforts impressed his employer and…

B-0008856

1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… where he completed Standard Six (Grade Eight). At the age of 15 he became an apprentice upholsterer at a furniture … Union Following this, Bonhomme was…

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Dawid Kruiper

… as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was the first son of the legendary San leader, Regopstaan Kruiper. Kruiper was the traditional leader and healer of the…

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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a … continuing for lower and superior courts)…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … Side Bar, and…

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1956

Azhar Cachalia

… Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in … Between 1975 and 1981 he studied science at…

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1935

Don Mattera

… grandparents not his parents. He grew up in the mixed area of Johannesburg called Sophiatown before the apartheid … people classified “Coloured” by the…

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1919-2005

Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng

… Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a mineworker and…

B-0008238

1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic … in his family, Makhanya enrolled at the…

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1952

Oupa Joshua Gqozo

… was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled … and Bodibeng Senior High School. In 1972 he…

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1932

Amy Thornton

… sixteen years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist … the Springbok Legion , a progressive…

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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After … and Cable Workers” Union in Howick…

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the…

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1932-1995

Barney Simon

… Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non-racial Market…

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…

B-0008814

1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife Frances ……

B-0009237

1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… in politics in 1940 when he was elected chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, number 2 branch of the Transvaal, a position he held until1953 . That same…

B-0068220

1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…

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1927-2019

Ben Turok

… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came … South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the…

B-0068644

1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of…

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1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and for some years … State. Educated at Healdtown…

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Chauke Family

… Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific nor widely … not been promoted by any single art dealer…

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1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… against racism and apartheid. She was a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists (UBJ), serving as its assistant secretary-treasurer, and also a…

B-0080693

2016

Juda Ngwenya

… (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he was approached by the renowned news wire … over two and half decades, Ngwenya…

B-0123560

1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at … the Stofberg Gedenkskool (Stofberg Memorial School) of the…

B-0008627

1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda … was educated at a convent and thereafter at…

B-0009113

1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, … family moved to KwaMashu. It was the…

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