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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… other teams. He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km) on the morning of a match to help prepare the wicket, watering and rolling it so it would bake hard on…

B-0070067

1893-1947

Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan

… an unofficial Muslim appointment from U.P. After attending the Government High School in Moradabad, he studied at … College, Dublin, Sidney Sussex College,…

B-0008252

1795

Sobhuza I

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and …

B-0009088

1938-2000

Margaret Singana

… Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape . In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of fame but, due to the…

B-0009063

1922-1998

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji

… in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked … and later became a bookkeeper in a…

B-0008487

1922-2001

Sonia Beryl Bunting

… Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of…

B-0007900

1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her … She enters history either through…

B-0008814

1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… a local magistrate's court before going to Johannesburg in the early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC)…

B-0095598

1929-2010

Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews

… a professor, academic lawyer and anthropologist at the University College of Fort Hare. Matthews completed his … where he first became politically active. He…

B-0008499

1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… many years in art education. He trained as a teacher at the Zonnebloem College in Cape Town, first teaching at a … for teaching. He became a schools…

B-0008296

1941

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

… Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal - … and then a LLB degree in 1965. At…

B-0124151

1944

Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi

… Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He was the first born to Maria and Manabane Rachidi and had three … other siblings. His parents were both…

B-0068367

1960-1999

Sifiso Nkabinde

… chairman of  Inkatha Freedom Party  (IFP). Nkabinde attend the local primary school and secondary school, where he … have been ignored due to his political…

B-0068252

1870-1950

William H. "Bill" Andrews

… in 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13 years old,he immigrated to South Africa in … 1893. He became a railway fitter and in 1902…

B-0007791

1919-1976

Dr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe

… James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the  African National Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s,…

B-0068251

Molefe Pheto

… As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and eventually … teacher. In 1970, as a young man he…

B-0122658

1936-2015

Letsau Nelson Diale

… in search of employment. Immediately after stepping off the train the police was arrested him; his crime was that he was not in possession of the hated…

B-0068675

1930-1978

Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum

… early age, and as a young boy, Sewgolum took to imitating the golfers he had seen on a nearby golf course by hitting a … as a caddie he was given an old…

B-0009023

1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the  University of  Zululand to study law. On campus he joined the Black Consciousness movement. …

B-0064866

1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her early childhood. She attended the Thokoza Primary School and…

B-0008468

1957

Saleem Badat

… Dr Saleem Badat holds Bachelors and Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher … Science Policy…

B-0099279

1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, which included…

B-0008172

1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks, ultimately becoming the Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s…

B-0008010

1953

Edwin Cameron

… obtained a BA in Jurisprudence with first class honours, the Jurisprudence Prize, BCL with first class honours and the Vinerian Scholarship. Cameron later…

B-0007916

1928-2010

Jean Clarice Middleton

… and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). Following this, she worked … imprisoned for his description of…

B-0074116

1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… Pretoria Boys High, he studied art under Walter Battiss at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the…

B-0096867

1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest of…

B-0093814

1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families…

B-0085550

Thomas G. Karis

… on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South African liberation movement, died of natural causes on August 18 at the age of 97. Professor…

B-0124013

1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve Biko , she was involved in political activism and…

B-0080909