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1949-2001

Jeffry Dumo Baqwa

… Jeffry Dumo Baqwa was born on 24th of July 1949 in Pinetown, Natal. He was the second child and … university Baqwa became involved in politics becoming one…

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1922

Elsa Joubert

… Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA and SOD) and Cape Town (MA in Afrikaans-Nederlands). Within two years of…

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1979

Alexander Leor Fattal

… Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts … Studies, focusing on…

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1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… he studied art under Walter Battiss at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of Pretoria…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated at the Bekezulu…

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Billy Paddock

… Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now … His political consciousness was awakened at the University of Natal (now University of…

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1953

Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale

… was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black township's…

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all…

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1925-1961

Patrice Émery Lumumba

… village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo ). . Lumumba’s tribe…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also … schooling. In 1973 Ben, then a student at…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13…

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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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1945-2025

David Hemson

… strict Christian household sheltered from the realities of what was happening in South Africa politically and socially. He was drafted out of high school to…

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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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1955

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

… School in Inanda and enrolled with the National University of Lesotho for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science and Education. After … in Educational…

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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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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… Hindus and various followers split, following the marriage of the Indian government's agent, a Muslim, to a Hindu woman. An avid learner, Kajee read lot of…

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in … (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early 1940s, until her retirement in … . She married Jack Hodgson in 1945. The…

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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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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… on to pursue further studies part time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Makhathini joined politics and devoted his time to organizing the people as an…

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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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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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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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1952

Popo Molefe

… was born in 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was one of eight children, and spent most of his youth living with his aunt. His mother was a domestic … by…

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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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1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile Ngcuka. Phumzile Ngcuka became the Minister of Mineral and…

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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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