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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I … I was born in Alfred Lane Simon’s Town on 25 June 1918, the…

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1950

Martin Plaut

… His father was a furniture designer who had a shop on the Cape Town Foreshore [Plaut Interior Design] and his … his father was born in Dusseldorf, Germany,…

B-0068305

1951

Frank Chikane

… Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January … 1951 in Johannesburg . His father was  a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission …

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1940

Johnson Phillip Mlambo

… Sobukwe ’s propagation of Pan Africansit ideas, he joined the  Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) at its formation in 1959. He was appointed as the party branch…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… grateful to his English teacher, David Miller. Miller was the only schoolteacher he named in his brief and unrevised … him for instilling in him an informed…

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1892-1975

Haile Selassie I

… Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born … name given by his parents was Lij Tafari Makonnen. He was the only surviving son…

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1920-2000

Fred Carneson

… and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine children. Fred’s parents were both almost … simple books. His father worked as a…

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1961

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

… Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… Naidoo , was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of Hermann Kallenbach , established the Tolstoy Farm where…

B-0068309

1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young and Uys was … a boy, Uys read voraciously. He had…

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1916-1993

Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda

… 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and … his local school, Mda proceeded to further his…

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

… Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. … but on his return he quarreled with his church over how the money was to be used…

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1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

… Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" … and distributing leaflets. She attended mass meetings at the Red Square,…

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2006

Daniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi

… Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto.  He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high … of a religious…

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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… Nkabinde became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black…

B-0095274

1959

Cheryl Carolus

… Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her … selected as head prefect in matric. She was a member…

B-0007922

1893-1958

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

… Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in Nylstroom, now known as Modimolle, in the Limpopo Province. He was…

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1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… he did both his primary and high school education. During the  1976 uprisings , Mokaba became a leader of school … matric on his own in 1978 and then went on…

B-0067978

1911-1963

Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka

… secondary education was at Headltown near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape. He read for a Bachelor of Arts degree with the University of Fort Hare. While…

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1926-1977

Viola Hashe

… Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province ). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… Ruth Mompati was born on 14 September 1925 in the village called Khanyesa in the North West Province . She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko and her father…

B-0068085

1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of the  Congress of Democrats (COD) .He…

B-0007794

1908-2003

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

… Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was…

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Joel Joffe

… from Palestine. After a Catholic boarding school, the Marist Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,…

B-0066325

1945

Paul Stopforth

… “Drawing is one way of articulating my relationship to the world.” Paul Stopforth is a painter and graphic artist … He was born in 1945 in Johannesburg,…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a graduate of the prestigious Fort Hare University and graduated in 1935 … priest and a wealthy land owner who…

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1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble … Teacher, who was resistant to the…

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1886-1982

Henry Selby Msimang

… Joel Msimang was a well-known African preacher who founded the Independent Methodist Church. Msimang Selby received his primary education at the Emakosini…

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1936-1973

Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi

… birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to play the saxophone and the clarinet, and…

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