SAHO global search

2012

Bongani Mdze

… working for Lonmin in 2005. He was the first person in his family to work at the mines. On 16 August 2012 Bongani … behind 3 times – in the arm, lower leg…

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1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… Ron Press  was born in 1929.  His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of … during the 1922 Rand Revolt  as a dispatch rider. His mother was…

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1948

Zanemvula Kizito Mda

… Solomzi Mda , a school teacher, who later became a lawyer. His father was a founding member and later became the … the police would take him in to…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… in 1957 by an MA degree (with distinction). He studied for his three degrees by correspondence with the University of South Africa. In 1968, he received his…

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1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a headmaster of a primary school and his…

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1938

Aubrey Levin

… was vocally right-wing and gained a reputation amongst his peers for sabotaging meetings advocating for communism or … Committee on the Immorality Amendment…

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1954-2019

Paul Grendon

… Grendon was a prolific photographer and artist that used his art as a medium to shed light on the political struggles of the time. His work will go on to…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and afterwards it was his  Ouma who told him  no uncertain terms that Verwoerd and his Apartheid was a ‘reuse klomp kak’…

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India. His mother, Khadija Jassat (nee Haffajee), was born in Bardoli and his…

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1951

Frank Chikane

… Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg . His father was  a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission … South African Student Organisation (SASO)…

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Piet Retief

… of 10 children of Jacobus, a farmer  and Debora Retief. His ancestors were from Provence in France. Piet Retief lived with his father until he was 27, after…

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1935-2009

Cassim Saloojee

… Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s … After he was married, Saloojee’s father moved…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated at the Bekezulu … College of Chiefs and then…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in … Viljoensdrift in the Orange Free State, where…

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1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the … Republic where Kumalo herded cattle. Though…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American Body Missionary and was given the surname, Champion. His…

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1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… 1964 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He obtained his Matriculation certificate in prison and went on to graduate with a BA and a BCom degree. After…

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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… of KwaZulu-Natal. Makhathini joined politics and devoted his time to organizing the people as an activist of the  … the ANC's Pietermaritzburg Conference of…

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1957

Michael Madimetja Teffo

… The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo went to school in Hammanskraal up to Standard 8 before leaving to focus on his…

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC) president Nana Sita from his home by blowing up the house that was set aside for him … Naidoo. A few days later, Jassat was…

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1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923 where they died … renamed him John Carlton.  After…

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1954

Tony Sithembiso Yengeni

… in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his matric at Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town.  Yengeni … he was appointed to lead MK in Cape…

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2012

Anele Mdizeni

… being shot in the hip by the police. Anele left behind his pregnant wife and two young children. According to his wife, Unathi Mdizeni, “Anele was an easy…

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1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… Battiss family settled in Fauresmith where he completed his education, matriculating in 1923. In 1924 he became a clerk in the Magistrates Court in…

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1939

Chief Malebogo

… the Transvaal Boers as intruders who were trying to change his way of life and refused to have his territory demarcated in 1888; nor would he have his huts…

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Jomo Kenyatta

… Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in … was very young and he was, as custom…

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1938

Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils

… was born in Yeoville, Johannesburg, on 15 November 1938.  His grandparents were immigrants from Latvia and Lithuania, … from the Czarist pogroms at the end…

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1830-1913

Gordon Sprigg

… at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up his first job in a shipbuilder’s office. He became a reporter … especially with questions of…

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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

…  (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals in the area made his family relocate to Kwa-Themba. He spent much of his childhood there as well as in Ratanda,…

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1950

Mandla Langa

… township outside Durban . He is one of nine children in his family. Amongst his siblings are Bheki Langa, young brother who was South Africa’s ambassador to…

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