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1790-1868

King Mzilikazi

… He was born ca. 1790 near Mkuze, Zululand (now part of South Africa). The son of Matshobana whom many had considered to be the greatest … he encountered on…

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1954

Lele Jacob Motaung

… is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners  and banned persons in South Africa … a…

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1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… Queenstown, Eastern Cape home, will go down in the annals of South African music as one of the jazz pioneers who played a pivotal role in the birth and…

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1929

Günther Komnick

… was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of…

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1963

Roger Meintjes

… enlarger advertised in the under-R20 column in one of the Cape newspapers.  In 1985, Meintjes went to study at Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the…

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1890-1938

Wilhelmina Louisa Freund

… 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German immigrants who met … she studied under EIsie Fogerty at the…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He became the secretary of the Laundry Workers Union as well as a member of the ANC in…

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1963

Justice Sfiso Mkame

… Ainslie in Johannesburg in the mid-1980s. Ka-Mkame speaks of them as 'milestones' that took his work to another level. His ‘love letters’ of the 1980s were…

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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in … his release, Fazzie became instrumental in the formation…

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1932-2010

Sheena Duncan

… Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the … abroad to…

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1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes … initiates gathered in the indigenous bush in the…

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1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi…

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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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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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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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1936-2009

Dawood Parker

… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role … rose to prominence in the 1950s as a leading activist of the…

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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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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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1928-2013

Judge Jan Hendrik Steyn

… on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the Urban Housing … now Western Cape) and later…

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14 January1918-1999

Dimitri Tsafendas

… step-mother, Maria, and step-siblings. The racial divides of the time prevented his parents from marrying and Tsafendas … who had fought against the Ottomans…

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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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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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1881-1969

Daniël Francois Malherbe

… Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society for Real … to further his studies and soon left for…

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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 ……

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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…

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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. …

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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…

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1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral letters … brother, a university student, who…

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1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in … a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by…

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