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1937-2015

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

… with his Father, Ebrahim Dinat, who was a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) .  In 1953, at the age…

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , … revealed in her writings, almost all of which…

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1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… ) on 30 November 1908. Her family was originally from the Thanjavur district in India and her maternal grandparents … selling fruit and vegetables to hotels…

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before … of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the NAPAC Opera…

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1953

Jeannette Ndhlovu

… Africa and completed half of her tertiary education at the University of Zululand before she went into exile. … Jeannette and her two sisters, Thandi and…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… The Atteridgeville Super Stadium was renamed the Lucas 'Masterpieces' Moripe Stadium after the legendary Pretoria soccer player. This followed a meeting … …

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1851-1919

Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino

… Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the pages of the fortnightly…

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1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… Article first published in The Sunday Independent  January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam … at his Queenstown, Eastern Cape home, will go down in the annals of…

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Pauline Podbrey

… She arrived with her family in  Durban  in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to South … socialists, including  Eddie Roux , and this…

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1942

Pitika Ntuli

… got involved in politics, and he was an active member of the struggle against the apartheid government to which resulted in him being exiled from South…

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1926

Leonora van den Heever

… . She went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the normaalkollege in Bloemfontein. She then became a…

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various … interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one of the…

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1925

Gertrude Shope

… and Soweto . When she was 29 years old she decided to join the  African National Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign…

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1950

Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi

… began his primary education at Entokozweni Nursery School. The 1960s forced removals saw his family relocating to … Orlando West High School while his was…

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1949-2015

Clive Edward Butler Rice

… from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University of Natal. Clive started playing cricket for the Transvaal Nuffield XI in 1967 and…

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1956

Ben Mclennan

… Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early schooling in Grahamstown , in the Eastern Province (now…

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1932

Harold Athol Fugard

… Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in … and his mother English-speaking. Fugard…

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1891-1955

Dora Nginza

… Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up … his high school years in Soweto, Mabasa…

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1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded …

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1929-2024

James Matthews

… messenger, clerk and telephonist. However, for Matthews, the lure of words and the art of expression were fundamental to his being, and his first writings…

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1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo…

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 … in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the youngest of…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later … family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of…

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1953

Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale

… Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…

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1930-2018

Billy Modise

… him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial discrimination imposed by apartheid which forced … his studies at university. In January 1955…

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1952

Lesley Lawson

… One of the founding members of Afrapix , Lesley Lawson was born in … She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of Natal, Durban,…

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1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… "As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and…

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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 … in anthropology.   David became actively…

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