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1909-1985

Moses Josiah Madiba

… 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. … communication medium. He received his…

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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, … one child with is wife, Josephine, nee…

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1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

… born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in … her Doctorate in Lit et Phil on Maggie…

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1964

Berni Searle

… Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist … categorized or placed into a specific box is…

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1957

Kate O’Regan

… She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980, an LL.M…

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1919-2020

Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana

… in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo ), into the Mhinga traditional royal family, where her father was a … during which time she developed a…

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1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… a housewife. Govender has ten siblings. He attended the Cato Manor Government Aided Indian School and then went … Sastri College (high school), Durban. He…

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1929-2006

Arthur Albert Hugh Adams

… Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams … him pencils and paper and he taught himself to draw.  At the age of…

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1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) … then Tamboerskloof and later in Kommetjie,…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He attended the St. Paul’s Catholic school in Mumbai, India, for five years. The family arrived in South Africa…

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1928-2013

Judge Jan Hendrik Steyn

… was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the Urban Housing League. His father, Hendrik, had joined the Boer forces in Natal as a 13-year old…

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1959

Gideon Mendel

… Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town  where he majored in African … History and Psychology. Gideon began…

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1925-1988

Dr. Connie Mulder

… Cornelius Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started…

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1925-1988

Cornelius Petrus Mulder

… Cornelius ("Connie") Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He…

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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October … as well as a Masters Degree in Public…

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1917-1978

Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh

… , Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to…

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1873-1936

Sidney Percival Bunting

… Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review . His mother…

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1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, his family moved to…

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1927-2009

Harriet Bolton

… was born in 1927 in Makwassie in Southern Transvaal, the eldest of four children – a younger brother and two … a secretarial course. She started working in…

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1948-1985

Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for me people. This is…

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1925-2012

Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias

… High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942. At the age of 15 even before he finished his schooling, he … his sister, Val, who was 21, died of…

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1934-2015

Bob Hepple

… unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence and Aid Fund…

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1947-2017

Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri

… He grew up with a passion for music, and started playing the guitar at a very tender age, inspired by his late father … learned to  play a variety of music…

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1936-2009

Dawood Parker

… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role in local civic affairs. He was a leading voice in the struggle…

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1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban . She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the Northern Transvaal but…

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Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times ……

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1881-1969

Daniël Francois Malherbe

… Malherbe was born on 28 May 1881 in Dal Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society for Real…

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1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a leading …

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1956

Patric Tariq Mellet

… Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, … area community of people who came to be classified…

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1924-2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

… 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of Gabriel Matibili, a migrant worker…

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