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1921-2015

Norman Stewart Middleton

… at Eddels shoe factory, where he became an active member of the Leather Workers’ Union, eventually becoming vice-chairperson. He was one of the strongest…

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1930

Stella Madge Damos

… unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she organised a protest meeting and was … with assaulting the police and fined £20…

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1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

… in Pietermaritzburg on 18 February 1959.He is the eldest of four children of Alex and Jenny Boraine.His father was the President of the Methodist Church of…

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1900-1963

Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe

… Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father, John Knox Bokwe , in Ugie, East…

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1942-2024

Edward “Eddie” Webster

… and Economics from Oxford University, and a Bachelor of Philosophy from York University. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an auxiliary body, although he was not in the army. Since … a left wing radical. Berrangé joined…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He attended the St. Paul’s Catholic school … year Primary School Diploma at the…

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Chief Maqoma

… frontier wars. Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King of the Rharhabe division of the Xhosa nation. Implacably opposed to his father's …

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1960-1999

Sifiso Nkabinde

… His father was a policeman and a local chairman of  Inkatha Freedom Party  (IFP). Nkabinde attend the local … youth leader in Richmond. He later became the…

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1870-1950

William H. "Bill" Andrews

… 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13 years old,he immigrated to South Africa in 1893. He … and Labour Council.In 1905 he became…

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1924-1978

Robert Sobukwe

… 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. His father worked as a municipal … his schooling he received a bursary…

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1934

Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga

… Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘ homeland’ , now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents noted his year of…

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1930-2006

Mazisi Raymond Kunene

… and was published in newspapers and magazines from the age of 11.In 1956 he won the Bantu Literary Competition Award and … earned a Masters degree in the…

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1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… Gauteng , in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her father was the nephew of Samuel Matshoba, an adviser to Gijima,…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final exams in … a degree in Industrial sociology at…

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1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her … Primary School and then the Public Secondary School, both of…

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1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… year he assisted in collecting ‘freedom demands’ as part of the African National Congress  (ANC)’s process of writing the Freedom Charter . In 1957 Mtshali…

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Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels … renaming it De Middelburg Getuige, and increased…

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1934-2006

Vusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make

… Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist  Episcopal minister,Make…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University, United Kingdom…

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1958

Jonathan Shapiro

… in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not imagine a career in architecture, so … work as a cartoonist began in earnest…

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1952

Lesley Lawson

… One of the founding members of Afrapix , Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She … from Durban Girls College and attended the University of Natal,…

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1851-1919

Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino

… intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the pages of the fortnightly newspaper that he produced for Black … …

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1948

Randolph Hartzenberg

… a Higher Diploma Drama in Education from the University of Cape Town in 1989, educating has been a huge part of his professional life. He taught art at…

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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…

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1870-1946

Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo

… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s…

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … and taken to Pietermaritzberg where…

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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her … parents who were English immigrants…

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting…

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1938

Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils

… who had fled from the Czarist pogroms at the end of the 19th century.  His father was a factory salesman and … National Congress (ANC)  in 1960, serving as…

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