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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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1954-1979

Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi

… Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the first born son of the late Collins Molapatene, an attorney and social worker … Hwiti High schools. He later…

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1958

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe

… also produced for video in collaboration with Anant Singh of Video Vision. She has also written both story and music in … with guitarist, Bheki Khoza, for…

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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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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… "Huis aen de drie grachten" next door to the old premises of the Gemeentelijke Universiteit of Amsterdam. From the outset his customers were bookish … lay an…

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1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a leading political activist, in…

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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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1964

Joseph Manana

… award from the Tito Zungu Trust Fund, created in the name of the late artist Tito Zungu which provides subsidies to … to study art. Manana enrolled at the…

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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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1924

Ben Baartman

… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines…

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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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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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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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1943

Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi

… in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … Sebidi was from a humble family, and…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at … home in Ocean View, when she shared some…

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1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… be moved to Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain towards the end of the forced removals period. His father, however,  passed … first time on a portable record player,…

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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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1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a … degrees from that university, that she received her…

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1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate … degree in law at the Turfloop University …

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David Anderson

… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and…

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1955

Michael Davis

… Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art…

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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and … agriculture at Adams College and then beginning…

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1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

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1939-1997

Enos Mabuza

… Headmaster in 1964, and by 1968 was appointed Headmaster of Khumbula High School in White River. He was appointed Inspector of Education in 1972, to become…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him … through the London University-affiliated…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was approached by a friend who asked him to become a member…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up … estate outside Oxford where he…

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