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1920-2013

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

… 1920 in Johannesburg , daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied … him to political meetings and became…

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1873-1905

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

… Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale Training…

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1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, … Political activist and a member of the…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… his enrollment. Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He…

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1938

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in …

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated…

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Dawid Kruiper

… Dawid Kruiper was born in the Kalahari National Park (now Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) in 1936.  He referred to himself as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He…

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1938

Nana Henrietta Moabi

… Transvaal (now known as Polokwane in Limpopo ) and the St Mountford Convent in Louis Trichardt, as well as the Kilnerton Training College. She joined the Pan…

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1874-1932

Daniel Simon Letanka

… Daniel Simon Letanka was born at Saulspoort in the Rustenburg district of the Transvaal in 1874 and attended the Native College in Grahamstown in the Cape…

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1967

Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo

… Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna…

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1913-1979

Mary Moodley

… Orange Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10 children born to Tom Anderson, a … and Katherine Anderson, a descendant of a slave from…

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few months old … went bankrupt and although Ebrahim's…

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1915

Reverend Beyers Naudé

… Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after … and was born into a family that was fully committed to the…

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1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes … to South…

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1913-2009

Nöel Robb

… born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer … Constance Barrow. Her father commanded…

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1935-2012

Abdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood

… bodies and civic structures. Dawood was detached from the Defiance Campaign and Treason trial in the early and late fifties respectively, he became actively…

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1961

Dali Tambo

… Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife … mother. Tambo attended Lancing College in West Sussex in the United…

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1876-1932

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

… Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who belonged to the…

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four brothers and sisters…

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1932

Amy Thornton

… Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it did not take long for Thornton to follow … 1948 when she was just sixteen…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

… in District Six, Cape Town, after which he worked in the family business. As a young man, Howa was deeply … by his father Yusuf Howa, who was a prominent…

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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he was a member of the Progressive Forum. In 1951, two of Dundee’s sons, Karrim … at Wits as politically trained and dedicated…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American Body Missionary and was…

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Richard Goldstone

… Goldstone was born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with … South African judge,…

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1905-1982

John Collins

… John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…

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1915-1972

William Frederick Nkomo

… was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended … in Rosettenville, Johannesburg and he…

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1908-1982

Ellen Phyllis Hellman

… in Johannesburg , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South … Theilheimer. Hellman was educated at…

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1950

Siphiwe Nyanda

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic … inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port … and trade union organiser. His union comrades knew Mini as…

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1911-2002

Errol T. Shanley

… Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish … went to work for a firm of building suppliers…

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