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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He … up on a country estate outside Oxford…

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion protested against the  National Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to…

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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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1913-1998

Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden

… apprenticeship in London. In South Africa, he worked for the Cape Timesand the Rand Daily Mail. In 1949, Lee-Warden started his own printing works at the…

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1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the ……

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1879-1931

Stephen William Black

… Stephen Black was the son of Henry and Sarah Black. He was born in September … engaged by George Kingswell who was owner and editor of The Owl. He wrote…

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1956

Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa

… at Inanda Seminary. She then found employment in the personnel department at the Tongaat Sugar Company, where she stayed for 2 years. From 1978 to 1979, she…

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Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern…

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1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a…

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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After completing his teacher's ……

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… writer, philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he…

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1922-2013

Vesta Smith

… years with her four sisters. Her mother was a seamstress. The family’s stay in Vrededorp did not last long as the government’s policy of forced removals soon…

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1919-1998

George Naicker

… one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the  Natal Indian Congress  in 1941 and became an executive … 1963. At that time Naicker was detained…

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1925-1961

Patrice Émery Lumumba

… Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the…

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an … in Benoni, then moved to springs…

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1938-2011

Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg

… Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. … daughter, thereby developing a close…

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… on 10 June 1938 in Raphahla Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale Phokanoka … before finally settling in Swekwati…

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in … a hawker and a shopkeeper.Dr Jassat matriculated from the Johannesburg…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… past. His grandfather, a Talmudic scholar, had fled the pogroms in Lithuania to England. His father Woolfie, was … Lithuania, having arrived in England with…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art … a DAAD scholarship to undertake a…

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1871-1939

Robert Gwelo Goodman

… Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City Hall, Cape Town (1917) is a painting that has special relevance for this…

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1933-2020

Denis Theodore Goldberg

… parents, Sam and Annie, had both been born in London, the children of Lithuanian Jews who had left the Pale of Settlement to escape the Russian pogroms. Sam…

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1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki Memorial School. His talent was recognised and … High School in Soweto. Ephraim Ngatane's…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… that supported Nelson Mandela's release from prison. In the same year, he resigned from the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) as he was opposed to their compliance…

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1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…

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1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape , however, there are other sources that claim she was born in the Polokwane area, as her…

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1827-1903

Janet Burnside Soga

… born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots census indicates that the…

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1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She participated in the Defiance…

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1888-1956

Sonja Schlesin

… Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South Africa, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in June…

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1939-2013

Pius Nkonzo Langa

… Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957,…

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