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1857-1941

Baden Powell

… Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His father died when he was 3 years old … devoted…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight children. As a young child, he already…

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1932

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

… Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern … groups run mainly by students from the nearby…

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1929-1994

Ruth Gosschalk

… on 27 July 1929 in Muizenburg , Cape Town . She was one of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gosschalk’s mother was a member of…

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1938

Nana Henrietta Moabi

… in community programmes and is listed by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa in the United Nations (UN) directory of Non Governmental Organisations …

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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the University…

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council he … between…

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1957

Michael Madimetja Teffo

… Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne . The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo … in…

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1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she visited Cape Town and…

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1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… in 1928. Kok began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and later at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she obtained her MB ChB in…

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1933-1986

Fabian Defu Ribeiro

… Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee Mothibe). His father … passed…

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1953-2005

Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu

… Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and … had an elder brother and a…

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1949

Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela

… Learning Centre, and from 1982-83 was at the University of Fort Hare lecturing Educational Psychology. Balindlela … Her political activism led to her…

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1913

John Watt (Jack) Grossert

… 1913 in Tweedie, KZN. He was a painter and graphic artist of landscapes, portraits and still life. He worked in oil, … University College; and 1967-69 a…

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1888-1942

Ruth Alexander

… Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was … schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United States of…

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1928-2016

Clarence Mlami Makwetu

… in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. His parents were peasant farmers … into the political…

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1905-1962

Goolam H. Gool

… 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to … the spice trade and wholesaled dried…

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1947-2017

Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri

… late father Kanyama Phiri. He learned to  play a variety of music instruments, including the piano and drums. Phiri … to travel to Johannesburg . He became a…

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1886-1946

Franciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt

… 1886**1874 in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a famous sculptor Jan Frans de Vriendt and his wife, … parts up to six times in one performance…

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Veerammal Naidoo

… Veerammal Naidoo, wife of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political…

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1964

Ntela Richard Sikhosana

… Exiled person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist … returned to South Africa he joined…

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1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… Sabbai before attending  English school . At the young age of 11, she became a pupil teacher, earning a salary of 10 shillings.Her parents, R.K. Naidoo and…

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1961

Dali Tambo

… Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife … and later went on to study at the American University of Paris where he…

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1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway … (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents were…

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1871-1952

Dr. Hans Merensky

… studied geology and mine engineering at the State Academy of Mining and the University of Berlin, Germany, and passed with honours. He completed his … region…

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1950

Peter Jones

… Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape . Jones after … in 1976, he became politically active  at the…

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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. … boy. His pieces included walking…

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1913-1970

Debi Singh

… a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was … in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker…

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended … while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the University…

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1912-1957

Gladstone Xala Tshume

… Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a … he was employed in a pharmacy and…

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