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John Smith Moffat

… from the missionary society and joined the British colonial service. In 1884 he became the Assistant … intervention established Rhodes’s first step in his…

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1934-2002

Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

… Lisbon, Portugal, where he began his involvement in anti-colonial politics.  He began his university studies in … preceded the initiation of its armed…

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1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… self-help and advancement eventually created friction with colonial authorities and he was barred from central Africa …

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1905-1962

Goolam H. Gool

… Gandhi’s passive resistance campaign, against British colonial rule in India, resulted in the closure of Aligarh in …

B-0008114

1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… Triomf , translated by Leon de Kock, reflects on post-colonial South Africa, showing how apartheid failed to …

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1891-1965

Dr Silas Modiri Molema

… government as a transitional body sharing power with the Colonial government. Dr. Molema died in Mafikeng in 1965 at …

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David Bruce

… in the British air force in World War II. His mother was a pre-war refugee from Nazi Germany. In Bruce’s words: “My …

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1894-1966

Irma Stern

… in feminist and gender studies, and the new post-colonial discourses. While many other white South African … is not the sole prerogative of critics in the…

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1958-1995

Nithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender

… he was appointed community organiser and principal of the pre-school at the David Landau Community Centre in … community as well as total responsibility for…

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1891

Captain Lancelot Andrew Ariba

… Kirstenbosci Gardens, the Bolus Herbarium at UCT, and this Colonial Mutual Life Building in Durban, which in the 1930 …

B-0008046

1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

… had been given some land as a reward for service to the colonial authorities .In 1896 he left the Wesleyan Methodist …

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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… sports and culture. Severe censorship by the Portuguese colonial regime restricted Tempo ’s content in its first four …

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1879-1931

Stephen William Black

… expression in the arts. The style of Black's theatre was pre-naturalist, belonging to the popular Edwardian revue-type …

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1954-2008

John Matshikiza

… like; Wah-Wah (2005), Richard E Grant's exploration of the pre-independence Swaziland of his youth, Leon Schuster's …

B-0008496

1909-1972

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

… 1930. During this period Nkrumah became introduced to anti-colonial resistance movements and ideologies, notably … 1993). Nkrumah, who had published the…

B-0125505

1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… the Kat River in 1828. [vi] The intention of the British Colonial Government was to use the settlement of indigenous … mixed Khoi / European people referred…

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1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… at Winchester and Oxford. He served in the British colonial service in Basutoland from 1941 to 1952, during …

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1941

Sue Williamson

… for themselves and their families.  The series features pre-recorded testimonies and accounts being played back to …

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1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… September 1961 . Hammarskjöld’s death occurred amid a post-colonial race for resources in Africa including the eastern …

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… Africa, where besides painting the portraits of important colonial personalities, he also went in quest of rural …

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1882-1966

Constance Greaves

… for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This was the "native study". The genre …

B-0008122

1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her … trade. Angolan nationalist historians would…

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1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

… of a series of windows for Smuts Hall on themes from early colonial histon In 1938 he designed a window with the Coat of …

B-0008128

1907-1983

Michael Guthrie Scott

… further lands, they rebelled. In response to this, the colonial army under General Trotha launched a genocidal … the two countries should enter into a …

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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… barren lands on which Africans had been confined to by colonial legislation, and which at the turn of the 19th …

B-0121675

1938-1996

Motlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho

… the second constitutional conference in 1964 which granted Pre – Independence Responsible Government, and the 1966 …

B-0150335

1862-1919

Louis Botha

… rebels, and Chamberlain eventually agreed that the two colonial governments should decide on the matter. Botha …

B-0144640

1809-1882

Nathaniel James Merriman

Born in Marlborough, England, on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…

B-0144781

1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… Matshikiza is survived by five daughters. His son, Sean, pre-deceased him. * Discography: Castle Lager Jazz Festival …

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… and not long after this she was convicted of 'attending a pre-arranged social gathering’. She was sentenced to nine …

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