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1925-2005

Fihla Christmas Tinto

Tinto was born on Christmas day on 25 December 1925 in the Mqanduli district of the former Transkei, now part of Eastern Cape Province. His involvement in…

B-0009148

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 school education at…

B-0070663

1940

Ebrahim Ismail Asvat

Ebrahim Ismail Asvat (Aswat) was born in Surat, India. He was a committed passive resister from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the…

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1925-1976

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

Joseph Mdluli was born in 1925 in lngwavuma, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), the only son in the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and…

B-0074125

1956

Richard Steele

Richard Steele was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second…

B-0074123

1955

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi was born on 21 August 1955 at Tauyatswala small village near Polokwane, in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Ramatlhodi's…

B-0008935

1923-1989

Bonakele Milner Ntsangani

Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh…

B-0064878

1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South…

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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…

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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern Cape.His father was a migrant mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary…

B-0095598

1929-2017

Emma Thandi Mashinini

Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…

B-0008471

1958-2004

Khotso Seatlholo

Khotso Seatlholo was born on 5 November 1958. He was a student at Naledi High School in Soweto when the 1976 Student riots ensued. Seatlholo, together with…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South Africa. He was 75…

B-0078551

1914

Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar

Valiamina Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of Gandhi’s Satyagraha in 1913. On 29 October Mudaliar and her mother…

B-0068153

1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

Vice Admiral J. Mudimu was born on 6 March 1954 in Sophiatown (Johannesburg). He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) in 1975…

B-0074796

1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising…

B-0009120

1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

Margaret Smith was born Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei. [i] Her father, Chisholm MacDonald,…

B-0100307

1921-2020

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of…

B-0096731

1940

Yusuf Joe Jacobs

Yusuf (Joe) Jacobs was born in District Six, Cape Town on 17 September 1940.  His father was Ismail Jacobs, a tailor.  His paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie…

B-0073817

1946

Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk

Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk was born in Vredendal, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and…

B-0084122

1960-2015

Ohm Collins Chabane

Ohm Collins Chabane was born on 15 April 1960 in Xikundu Village, in Limpopo (then Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of…

B-0007931

1976

Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane

Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…

B-0074845

1953

Sandile Ngcobo

Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo was born on 1 March 1953 in Durban, South Africa.  Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and…

B-0008773

1927-2009

Harriet Bolton

Harriet Bolton was born in 1927 in Makwassie in Southern Transvaal, the eldest of four children – a younger brother and two sisters. Her family moved around…

B-0066421

1970

Leleti Khumalo

Leleti Khumalo was born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township, the North of Durban. Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became a member a youth backyard…

B-0067755

Cijimpi Mnyandu

Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on…

B-0094271

1958

Jackson Mthembu

Jackson Mthembu was born in June 5th,1958 in Witbank.  He grew up in Kromkrans, a reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal,…

B-0068150

1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

Walton Zacharias  Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the African National Congress (ANC) and for…

B-0008063

June Rose Nala

June Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

B-0094717

Benjamin Johnson Langa

Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were…

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