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1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

… whom most young filmmakers aspired to work. They liked his attitude and took him on as an assistant.   After a year … sceptical agencies and clients to work…

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1899-1980

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

… November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended St. Matthew's College … President in 1955. However, he could…

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1903-1966

Edward “Eddie” Roux

… an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where his father opened a pharmacy in 1907. Roux's father was a … Republic" doctrine, and although Roux…

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1851-1897

Barney Barnato

… was born in 21 February 1851, Whitechapel slum of London. His original name was Barnett Issacs but changed it to Barney … Barnatto when he was acting as a…

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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments of … the daughter of Malindi Hadebe, born…

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1940

Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers

… to 1961. The De Villiers family moved to Caledon and after his first year of schooling they moved to Bellville. He … politics of the National Party, was…

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… He is considered one of the few Indian leaders of his day who attempted to transcend racial boundaries with … sport and politics. Sigamoney was born in 1888…

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1903-1972

J B Marks

… Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province).  His father was a railway worker and his mother, a midwife. His father was a staunch supporter of…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

… in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary school headmaster announced that students would … German and demanding to be taught…

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1950

Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper

… In 1969 Cooper was suspended from the university for his political ideologies. However, although Cooper strongly … Cooper was elected as secretary. This…

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1928-2007

Lawrence Folley

… four years of study in England.  She was able to broaden his musical horizons and encouraged him to focus on singing … Parkinson and acting lessons with…

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… conditions of colonialism and apartheid at an early age. His home-town was characterised by grinding poverty, police … he was arrested and detained between…

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1962

Molatodi Thomas Lehupela

… acquitted himself with making sculpture through clay. His imminent rose to fame came through a meeting with Father Frans Claerhout in 1984; under his…

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2012

Molefi Osiel Ntsoele

… 2, shot once in the back by the police. He left behind his wife and 4 children, including 3 who are still attending school. He was also financially…

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale Phokanoka worked as a teacher while his mother was a housewife who earned…

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… Ebrahim's mother became ill and he was sent to live with his grandmother at Effingham, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). When he was two, his father's business went…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… single-handedly was Balkema.  August Aime Balkema (Guus to his friends) was born in 1906. Twenty-seven years later he … Gemeentelijke Universiteit of…

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1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made his way to Fort Hare, where he graduated with a B.A. degree … because of ill health, and Pitje was…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… the Dumani Lower Primary School and later continued his studies through the Intec Correspondence College.  After completing his schooling, he attended the…

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… the struggle and was reduced to poverty. As a result of his activism, he became insolvent when his white creditors made a concerted run on him to punish him…

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… of the African National Congress (ANC), would state in his Mafeking Diary that Burton was ‘a negrophilist and did a … J.H. de Villiers, who presided over the…

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1929-2010

Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews

… at the University College of Fort Hare. Matthews completed his primary education at Lovedale School in Alice, Eastern … of the ANC Youth League in…

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1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to Mamelodi where his political life began. One of…

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1949-2001

Jeffry Dumo Baqwa

… and oldest son (two younger brothers were to follow). His father worked as a school inspector while his mother worked as a nurse. He attended schools in…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months…

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1939-2018

Hugh Masekela

… Jazz Band – South Africa’s first youth orchestra. In his early days as a teenager on the South African music … above-mentioned artists. Masekela was deeply…

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… River Convention of 1852 through the advice he gave to his father’s friend Andries Pretorius. In 1856 Murray played … the minister of Worcester. At Worcester…

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1924-1994

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

… At the age of 17, Motsoaledi came to Johannesburg. His first brush with the law in Johannesburg was his arrest for failure to produce his pass book – he was…

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1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple (1869-1942), an immigrant from … Amalgamated Society of Engineers and was…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… became an active critic of the apartheid regime. One of his most radical expressions against the segregationist policy, and his most renowned work, is “South…

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