SAHO global search

1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga . She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula and Thembisile) of Ernestinah and Matthew Simelane. She  graduated on 15…

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1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in the…

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Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and formed the South … Students Organization (SASO) in July 1968. At…

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… for a Diploma in Commercial Art at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT, now Durban University of Technology) in 1962. She also did part-time studies with…

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1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings died in childhood. Mhlaba attended school at ……

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1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, further … their municipality. Barenblatt later…

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1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where his father was a principal at a … first piano lessons. He also became…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s … He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km)…

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… Nomkhosi  Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National ……

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the…

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… Jan de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de Klerk, a political analyst and one…

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… were subjected to in the old Romanov empire. At the age of four, Hirson was enrolled at the Talmud Torah, a Hebrew … and studied as a part-time student at…

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… in MK camps until 1979 when he was deployed as Chief of Logistics in Luanda, Angola. He later served in ANC Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia as the co…

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following … in executing murals as a teenager, using a…

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1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made … minded students in establishing a…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a crusader for better … following…

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1948-1985

Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country … autobiography, 1984)…

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1956

Trevor Andrew Manuel

… a young boy Manuel was exposed to the negative aspects of the apartheid regime when his Black neighbours were forced … when he joined the Labour Party Youth…

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1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, … several books and wrote poetry to accompany…

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… dairy farm in Lady Selbourne, and later joined the staff of the Pretoria General Hospital. He joined the African … (ANC) in 1957 in Lady Selbourne after…

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1927-2013

Francois Roux

… 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies … Roux, a master draughtsman, is…

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). He is the seventh…

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1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she moved to Cape…

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1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.  André Philippus Brink was born on 29 May 1935, in Vrede…

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1919-2020

Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana

… during which time she developed a strong awareness of the link between the social system and health problems in … African National Congress (ANC) in 1952 at…

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1903-1960

Ida Fiyo Mntwana

… and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the  African National Congress Women’s League  and a leader of many mass women’s demonstrations…

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1949

Lefifi Tladi

… Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now … a youth club known as De-Olympia in the…

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1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo herded…

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1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She … after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The…

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