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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…

B-0008925

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…

B-0074123

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…

B-0008192

1979

Alexander Leor Fattal

… Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex … Area Studies, focusing on Latin America and Africa…

B-0008057

1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of Durban-Westville (now University of … He went onto to complete his B.Sc Masters degree…

B-0082944

1929

Günther Komnick

… Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the…

B-0097872

1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

… mother resorted to running a shebeen in order to provide the family with livelihood means. Modisane wrote that: My mother accepted her life, and I suppose,…

B-0008589

1912-1974

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

… with both their father and grandfather fighting in the Anglo Boer War , their mother being held in a concentration camp during the war and their father…

B-0069428

1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while at high school. She studied for two years … to join a newspaper as a journalist.She…

B-0080693

1972

Zanele Muholi

… Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, and the intersections in between. Her photographs are an attempt … is a time for a visual state of…

B-0121549

1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi … his mother was a noted soprano, and his father played the organ in the…

B-0008495

1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and for some years the…

B-0008063

1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of…

B-0008145

1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy … and Alice (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents…

B-0122744

1931-2017

Thandi Klaasen

… most celebrated jazz musicians and a defining voice of the Sophiatown cultural renaissance. The daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic worker, she grew up in…

B-0008266

1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and … father.After his release, Fazzie became…

B-0067999

1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His … in South Africa in 1930, he was prohibited from entering the country, as he was…

B-0008013

1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of…

B-0122626

1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother … Matsemela Manaka and his Creative Youth Association (CYA). The…

B-0099557

1954-2008

John Matshikiza

… 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, … Kong, which had an all-black cast…

B-0008496

Gwede Mantashe

… Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa …

B-0070789

Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… at a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He was the first of three sons born to Manabeng and Dibetle Johanna Mamogobo. The family lived on a farm owned by…

B-0080574

1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… they met once again and as friends became interested in the nationalist movement in India . They met Gandhi in 1925 and also organised a big reception for…

B-0008860

1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… various jobs since completing school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a … amongst other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught…

B-0008506

1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport … who ran a fleet of buses.He…

B-0008001

1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine-handler in the mines in Johannesburg. His father died in 1949 after … on alternative days – one would go to…

B-0093813

1954

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  … her form 5 and…

B-0009071

2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League. A son to a farm worker,…

B-0069841

1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing … to work in a tobacco factory. Whilst employed…

B-0068262

1946

Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk

… Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and the transition to the apartheid regime in 1948, and in 1950, he…

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