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Joseph Nkatlo

… Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the December 1960 consultative conference of African leaders in…

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1904-2002

Ernest Methuen Mancoba

… wood carving there from Sister Pauline CR. On completion of his course, he remained at the College teaching Zulu until … In 1933, Mancoba enrolled as a…

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T. J. Lemon

… High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an interest in photography … pharmacy. After winning the "Nikon…

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du Plessis … his B.Sc. degree in 1960 at Potchefstroom…

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1922

George Edward Peake

… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the  South African Coloured People's Organisation  (SACPO) … He was born in the Cape in 1922. He…

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1908-1970

Paul Herman Robinson

… 1929 he went to England and attended the Bolt Court School of Process Engravings and returned to SA in 1930 and received … Anti-tank Regiment and was…

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Gail Johnson

… Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson , who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 Gail …

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1886-1964

Dorothy Moss Kay

… and sent five paintings to the SASA Annual Exhibition. One of them was Marjorie aged Four Years(1918), a portrait of her daughter. In 1922, Kay sent a…

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1976

Jacob Zungwane Mashabane

… On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at … disappeared from his…

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1952

Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul

… as a Physical Science teacher at Springfield College of Education, Durban. He taught Science in schools in KZN, … township in South Africa. Rajgopaul was…

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1949

Linda Komape

… with a union which was concerned with the interests of female cleaning staff. She found out that many were … harassed in their jobs and had no legal rights…

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1945

Barry “Anderson” Richards

… blossoming career coincided with South Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. … In that year he was named the South…

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1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… at the Swedish Lutheran mission trade school. At the age of twenty-five while an instructor at the Edendale Vocational … After leaving the hospital he served…

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1890-1968

Eric Hendrik Louw

… first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was born in 1890. When the  National …  formed its first government in 1948 he…

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1859-1942

Lord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne

… Lord William Palmer, the second Earl of Selborne was born in 1859. He studied history at the University of Oxford. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies…

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1920

Kwena Matlala

… Kwena Matlala, born in 1920, was the first daughter of Chief Sekgwari Matlala and Mme Makwena Matlala . She married Nelson Ngakana Moabelo, the ntona of…

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1989-2001

Nkosi Johnson

… the east rand. When his mother became too ill to take care of him, she gave him up for adoption. He was adopted by … in Johannesburg refused to admit him as…

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1950

Peter Hain

… to Britain where he earned degrees from the universities of London and Sussex.He joined the Britain Liberal Party's … in 1968. In 1969 Hain helped to…

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1910-1977

Max Gordon

… 1932 he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cape Town ,where he fell in with swtudent radicals who … in his absence and factions developed over…

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1954

Wendy Schwegmann

… Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She lived in Johannesburg and…

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1962

Chris Kirchhoff

… Sheng-Yen a Ch'en Master: "Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging … the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it…

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1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around several … wanted to study law, however, when the then…

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1902-1978

Jan Bouws

… 28 July 1902. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a lecturer at the Watergraafsmeerse…

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1902-1972

Dezso Koenig

… back in Johannesburg. In 1948 he was a founder member of the Brush and Chisel Club and was also active in the … life, landscape and especially the urban…

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1948-2007

Bill Flynn

… in more than 140 stage plays, musicals, 42 films, dozens of TV shows and thousands of radio and TV commercials. On television, he appeared on … on Saturday…

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1931-2016

Lulu Dube

… in establishing the Ohlange school , which all of his children attended. The school started from first year … unknown, but image from The First President: A…

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Keable Mote

… the Orange Free State. With Clements Kadalie, he was one of the first Africans prosecuted under the Native Administration Act of 1927, which made it an…

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1945

Professor Raymond Suttner

… Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg…

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