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1840-1887

Johannes Jane Tane Kekana

… was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife NaMahlangu, a member of …

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1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

… Paarl in Cape Town in early 1930s. Mafekeng left school at the age of 15 to support the family.  Her first job was at a “canning factory where … week.”  She…

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1956

Chris Ledochowski

… O and A Level Cambridge Certificates, Ledochowski attended the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in Poland for several months … returned to South Africa to undergo…

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1940-2009

Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang

… 25 kilometers from Durban. She matriculated in 1959, at the age of 19. Tshabalala-Msimang went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 from the…

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Madi Gray

… immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa during the inter-war period. Being a refugee from Germany, her mother understood the similarities between…

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1956

Jennifer Schreiner

… Else Schreiner.  Else and Deneys were active members of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).  Deneys did not join any political party after the LPSA was…

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1850s-1911

Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba

… Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba was born in the 1850s at Ngqakayi in the Eastern Cape. His father, Ntibane Mzimba, was educated in Lovedale and became a deacon in…

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1905-1978

Moses Mauane Kotane

… Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came … insatiable reader…

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1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

… born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising School in Johannesburg and Orlando High. She…

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Billy Paddock

… grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where … provincial colours and later participated and…

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Bisho Jarsa

… grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth …

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1924-2009

Dennis Brutus

… parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of four he attended Paterson High School. He graduated from the University of Fort Hare with…

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1910-1978

Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker

… Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee…

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1948

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

… have one son and two daughters. Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He ……

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1911-1991

Taubie Kushlick

… Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most … in big…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. … of avant-garde images.  As a woman artist, she…

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… He attended Sastri College, Durban  where he represented the senior cricket team. Amra was exposed to George Singh and … crucial role in charting a more…

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1918-2002

Arnold Selby

… was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the discrimination…

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1942

Vera Gow (Adams)

… Town . Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce…

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1812-1893

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

… 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near Winburg, where he joined the Voortrekker…

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1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the Inanda Seminary, a girls’ high school in Durban . She then studied at the Natal and Fort Hare…

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1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal.Mtshali became active in the trade union movement, organising workers…

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1913-1990

Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng

… Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth, his family moved…

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…

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1955-1991

Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo

… Mzala`s academic record was outstanding. He acquired the name, Comrade Mzala, as he was fond of addressing everyone as “mzala, mzala”.) In 1972, at the age…

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1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] After leaving school, he avoided conscription into the South African Defence Force…

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1920-2008

Brian Percy Bunting

… Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at  the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of  Sidney Percival Bunting  and  Rebecca…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… family was not political, they were religious and it was the Christian moral values he learnt at home and the science he learnt at university that gave rise…

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1940-2006

Louis Problem Mkhize

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … recruited Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize first into the trade union…

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1945

Graça Simbine Machel

… Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist … in 1968, to major in languages…

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