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1941

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

… born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg . She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. … sculptor. Barbara grew up in Witbank…

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… Tilley in 1933 and was elected in 1934 as Hon. Secretary of the Kholvad Madressa Anjiman Islamia, the youngest person … South Africa in 1935 and was elected…

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1958

Jackson Mthembu

… school fees, uniforms, books." He went to the University of Fort Hare but was later expelled, and started working at … and Allied Workers Union from 1984 to…

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the…

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1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… and a prolific author.  He wrote 54 books, including five of poetry and one on depression.  De Villiers also composed a number of hymns that were included in…

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1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

… education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township, south of Johannesburg. Other academic qualifications include a … a Certificate in Defence Management from…

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1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… He left the country in 1964 and joined ANC ranks of those who were already exile. Sigxashe went to Russia … Tanzania where he worked as a lecturer at the…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… she had to record in detail the post mortem appearance of various animal diseases and abnormalities. This was before the time of colour photographs. In 1927…

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he was one of the strongest supporters of the Satyagraha Campaign. He was…

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1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… His grandparents decided to relocate to Garankuwa, North of Pretoria to live with his aunt. Grootboom attended at Odi High School in Hebron, North of…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended Grey High … six matches for Sussex Second XI. He…

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… in politics at Livingstone High School , where several of her teachers were involved in the Unity Movement and the … Affairs Department (Anti-CAD) activities…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like … Serote,…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… for a Lower Secondary Teachers’ Diploma at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). As she had grown up under the guidance of her grandmother, who was a…

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1964

Pitso John Mosimane

… July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the coach of Mamelodi…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational methods that … interested in photography and taught…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…

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1916-1968

Leng Dixon

… the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period in Paris in … into elemental, yet animated line…

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1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… Amid the many explosions carried out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto, who … Soweto. Petros Molefe and Benjamin Ramutsi…

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young Indians impatient with the divisions that had up to … Africans. In 1939 he was elected to the…

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… in 1954-1956 and an ANC organiser at the Congress of the People in Kliptown June 1955. After being released … as an organiser for a textile union and as…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… together they became prime movers in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she … for some time at the Lenin School in…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, which included…

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1927

Sydney Brenner

… intelligent and learned to read at an early age. One of his father's customers convinced Mr. Brenner senior to … at age 5. The young boy completed the first…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

… was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of his participation in any of its exhibitions. He most likely saw no need to exhibit … 1915 to 1940…

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1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His … Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO). PEBCO was an affiliate…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… Mosie Moolla and Barney later became joint secretaries of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC). In 1952, Desai … as coloured. He succeeded James La…

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1968

Rebecca Malope

… hiked 400 km from their home to the Johannesburg township of Evaton to seek work. In 1986 Rebecca entered the ‘Shell … award launched her music career. She…

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1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… He began as a clerk before becoming a superintendant of public works in Tlhabane. Frustrated by the racial hierarchy, he left and from 1972 spent most of the…

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