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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Liverpool, England. She also attended courses on International Relations at the Institute of…

B-0068250

1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district of Transkei . Ma Mbeki’s family, the Moeranes, are Basotho members of the…

B-0094629

1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… Sihlali moved back in with his parents at the age of 14, staying with them in Moroka outside Johannesburg , … in 1958, and had five children with her. As a…

B-0098973

1856-1919

Saul Msane

… in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of Europe together with a Zulu choir. In approximately 1907 … started in 1900. In 1901 he became a…

B-0068143

1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… in 1935. As a student, he was influenced by the writings of Samuel Krune Mqhayi. With no other prospects for a viable … Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the…

B-0077426

1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… 1947, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at…

B-0094976

1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came to Cape Town as a labourer, … helped organise a black railway and…

B-0008779

1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple … an immigrant from Sunderland, was a shop…

B-0066278

1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… at the university at the time, and her father, a member of the South African Communist Party eventually lost his … 's underground structures. When Baleka’s…

B-0008248

1921-1976

Leslie Massina

… left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective who had been gain access … into the African National Congress (ANC…

B-0008477

1810-1872

Charles Du Val

… Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and … associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape Town at…

B-0008035

1930-2018

Billy Modise

… which forced black people and his personal experiences of racism served as a political awakening for Modise. Just … university. In January 1955 he enrolled…

B-0094430

1927-2005

Kalushi Drake Koka

… Kalushi Drake Koka was born in Pietersburg on the 9th  of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after … in politics, serving as Transvaal vice…

B-0095114

1928-2007

Lawrence Folley

… Orpheus Choir.  Lawrence was soon given the opportunity of performing some of the baritone solos.  It was here that he met the popular … Orchestra.  Marie…

B-0008076

1955

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi

… High in Tembisa Township,  Johannesburg . Upon completion of his matric, he decided to enrol for law studies at the University of the North (renamed…

B-0008935

1873-1936

Sidney Percival Bunting

… Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review . His…

B-0007901

1932-2013

Louis Luyt

… he captained the Orange Free State province. By the end of the 1960s Luyt had become a millionaire. In 1989 he took over the Presidency of the Transvaal…

B-0008347

1903-1979

Johannes (Jan) de Klerk

… born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De … student politics. From 1925 to 1926…

B-0007986

1914-2011

Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin)

… on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when … are traced back to when she joined…

B-0094343

1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef … experience brought Pierneef into contact…

B-0008887

1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married…

B-0007999

1926

Leonora van den Heever

… went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the normaalkollege in … Brink, and began her LLB part-time…

B-0009199

1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … experiences with photography were as a teen when…

B-0008597

1941

Mannie Manim

… He worked for two years as a technical director of the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg when it opened, then … some years, eventually joining the Performing…

B-0064905

1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His father, … on to Lovedale. As a result he became a…

B-0064903

1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now … on 2 September 1947. He studied at the…

B-0066279

1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now ……

B-0096554

1903-1979

Josie Palmer

… Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the … be with her husband, Edwin…

B-0008861

1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski…

B-0008339

1934-2012

Ellen Lambert

… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . … She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of…

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