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1920-1969

Eduardo Mondlane

… Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was … at Syracuse University, New York. As the president of…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of  March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…

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Siva Pillay

… attack in Natal on 16 December 1961. However, due to one of their members (Bruno Mtolo), a police spy, the group of 19 was betrayed and subsequently charged…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to Swaziland … a career in journalism. In 1980, Sisulu,…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing … Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook…

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1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’ Degree in … and obtained a Doctoral Degree with a thesis…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. … South Africa the following year to…

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

… A chairman of the Orlando  African National Congress  (ANC) during the … called the "Bafebagiya" group. He later became president of the  Swaziland  National…

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Paul Landau

… Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy … organised by South African History Online,…

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1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop…

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S. S. Tema

… Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the periphery of…

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1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South Africa…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just … He trained as a…

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1940-2006

Louis Problem Mkhize

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … to undergo military training. He left in the company of…

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1948

Paul Michael Sibisi

… no art classes at Adams College, he acted on the advice of Masondo and applied to study at Ndaleni Educational … he was funded by a bursary awarded by the SA…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until … a trade union organiser for the South African…

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1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… 800 defiers who signed up and Asa's home was the centre of the campaign. Asa then linked up with Ray Alexander , a … other than food. By 1953, Asa had become…

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1933

Allister Sparks

… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … assistant director in 1967. In 1974 he…

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1903-1985

John Koenakeefe Mohl

… and convinced his father to allow him to draw. Only patch of sunshine 1968. Source: artnet.com Mohl attended the … Namibia) where he studied painting at the…

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1978

Sibusiso Robert Duma

… his Philange Art Project based in Umlazi, a township south of Durban where Makhoba had built a studio space behind his … student, Welcome Danca. Together…

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1936-2015

Letsau Nelson Diale

… January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane … In 1952, he left Ga-Masemola for…

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1941-2007

Hilary Mutch

… before proceeding with her studies at the University of Witwatersrand where her mother worked as French lecturer. …  (ARM) taking on the code name "Kate"…

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1962

Greg Marinovich

… The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest…

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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at … him to produce a carved Madonna. This marked…

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1890-1978

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe

… Agnes Masango.  He was invited to conduct a massed choir of 3000 school children at the welcoming ceremony of King George of Britain in Mthatha. In…

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

… the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He … would later be the inspiration for his…

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1922-2003

Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker

… Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of G M Naicker . In the mid-1950s he served as general secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and…

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… communist movements. Four years later, he would become one of the 156 men and women accused in the Treason Trial that … death in 1959 at just 32 – five days…

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Mrs N. S. Lachimi Pillay

… Mrs. N. S. Pillay (Lachimi), sister-in-law of Veerammal Naidoo, went with Veerammal and her mother to Natal during the third phase of the Satyagraha . She…

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1934

Abdullah Ibrahim

… in jazz music as a pianist and composer, where some of his own earliest inspirations included his grandmother, … Khoi-san songs and Christian hymns would be…

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