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1949-2001

Jeffry Dumo Baqwa

… was born on 24th of July 1949 in Pinetown, Natal. He was the second child and oldest son (two younger brothers were to … Baqwa became involved in politics…

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1915-2006

Hilda Bernstein

… Africa she became active in organisations associated with the struggle for National Union of Distributive Workers. She was a member of the South African…

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1956

Azhar Cachalia

… in 1974. Between 1975 and 1981 he studied science at the University of Durban Westville and law at the University of Witwatersrand. Azhar was influenced in…

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1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in … High School. While studying for a Bachelor of Arts at the University…

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1935

Don Mattera

… immigrant who married a Xhosa or Khoisan woman from the Cape. His grandfather then moved to Johannesburg where Mattera's father was born and classified…

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1958

Jackson Mthembu

… reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal, where he went with his grandmother Sarah Mthembu to work in the mealie fields,…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until grade 11 when he…

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1974-2016

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

… not known publicly about Fezekile Kuzwayo. Unfortunately, the event that she is best known for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the…

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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a … not agree with British imperialism in South…

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… itself when she was fifteen years old. After joining the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting the aims of the Freedom Charter , then joined the Congress of…

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1923

James “Jobe” Hadebe

… John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, he became…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… Town on 30 April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney from the east end of London, was the breadwinner at home. She worked as an usherette at the Alhambra…

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1957

Mohammed Valli Moosa

… that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained his BSc degree in 1978. In 1976 he joined the Black…

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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman studied Architecture at the University of…

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1925

Tamsanqa Tasque Tshume

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two…

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2018

Vondela Landingwe

… for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the apartheid era. He was also a…

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1922-2004

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

… Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko … with Nelson Mandela. She may have been averse to being in the public…

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1966

Andreas Vlachakis

… is a professional photojournalist who has been involved in the local newspaper and magazine industry since 1995. His … and internationally. He is currently a…

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1970

Heidi Saayman

… old age homes in Port Elizabeth called " Autumn Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the…

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Esmé Berman

… author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and completed a … Upon completion she went to London to…

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…

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1925-2010

Ethel Walt

… Ethel Walt was born on 22 November 1925 in Bothaville in the then Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Her … for a life of leisure and privilege…

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1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively … associations. Her mother, Sophia Herman,…

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Gaur Radebe

… about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National Congress  (ANC), he first made his mark…

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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

… ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and his…

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1926-2008

Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa

… in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary school at Lovedale … and met P. K. Leballo. In 1949 he was…

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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… paternal grandparents in a rural village called Cala in the Eastern Cape. The wall murals Xhosa women painted captivated Sihlali, who tried to imitate the…

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1954-1979

Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi

… in Dube Village, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the first born son of the late Collins Molapatene, an attorney and social worker … Matseke and Hwiti…

B-0075473

1956

Richard Steele

… Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very conservative … Christian values in…

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1859-1921

John Tengo Jabavu

… John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January  in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His … were anxious to give him some education and…

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