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1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… Govan Mbeki (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of…

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1852-1917

Isaac Williams Wauchope

… The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi … a luxuriant moustache on his upper lip like that of the slaves. He had an open forehead which…

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1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the…

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1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of … time, Cole registered for a…

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1937-2011

Fikile Charles Bam

… Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at…

B-0007820

1865

Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi

… (sometimes spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and…

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1919-2005

Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng

… "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a…

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the time. Her mother, Bessie Amelia Emery, came from a … than that he was…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… He excelled as a divorce lawyer. He usually represented the wife and, at a time when women were second-class citizens … not much care about was politics,…

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1982

Mary Sibande

… in Johannesburg - is interested primarily in questions of the body and how to reclaim the black female body in post-colonial and post-apartheid … an alter…

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1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's…

B-0007956

1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During…

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1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… on 27 April 1882 in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his … where she distinguished herself as a…

B-0008067

1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

… 1938 in Orlando East,  Soweto . His parents were among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a … attend St.Peter’s (now St. Martin’s,…

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1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the University of the North (also known…

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1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe , KwaZulu Natal . Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo … such as Congress of South African…

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1945

Achmad Cassiem

… up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) organised an anti-pass campaign that ended in the…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… him a concern for workers rights. As a teenager, he joined the South West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO), which became the preeminent liberation…

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1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall Campbell. ……

B-0007917

1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… His family came from a non-Setswana-speaking ethnic group, the Beyei. Mpho attended Moremi Primary School in Maun, and … 1948, he returned to South Africa…

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Potlako Leballo

… was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at … his age and enlisted in a non…

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1909-1997

Frances Baard

… of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine … . She was a trade unionist and a women's…

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1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a … His grandfather was Mokgatle Mokgatle (Sekete) the…

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1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… family moved to Kliptown, south of Johannesburg in 1947. The family remained in Kliptown for five years. In 1952 they … a temporary shelter for many families…

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1930-1994

Elijah Barayi

… matriculated at Healdtown Institute in 1949.Barayi joined the ANC Youth League in 1952 as a teenager and became an … organiser and an able speaker.  He was…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By … African letters, passed away in Lebowakgomo, Limpopo, on the evening…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… talents were first recognised through her association with the renowned Port Elizabeth playwright Athol Fugard .   Bryceland joined the Cape Performing Arts…

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1940

Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers

… Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser for the  National Party  (NP), and Member of Parliament for Vasco from 1953 to 1961. The De Villiers family…

B-0007994

1930-2007

Elize Botha

… , West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, in 1948 and … a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy, cum…

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1927-2007

Theo Mthembu

… on 27 February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal and later at the Adams College at…

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