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Mme Makwena Matlala

… The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg … District, Transvaal (now…

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… only two years. Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His … father, Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima,…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at the height of the depression when he could not find employment. He lived in South Africa for many years…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has … with poets like Oswald Mtshali and…

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1964

Pitso John Mosimane

… Mosimane was born on 26 July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and…

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… up in Sophiatown . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… after secondary school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him from enrolling at the…

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1905-1992

Helen Joseph

… Frank. She graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927. She then taught for three … Her service as an information and welfare…

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1909-1969

Dr. Philip Blaaiberg

… Born in Uniondale in the Cape, Blaaiberg spent his youth in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending a year at the…

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Chauke Family

… The Chaukes live in Blinkwater, near Msengi in the Limpopo Province, but very little is known about this … art dealer. Their lack of production would suggest…

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1958

Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande

… Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education … of Democratic University Staff Associations (UDUSA) and…

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June Rose Nala

… Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

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1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended … she became politically active as a teenager on noticing the impact the…

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1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). … father died when he was a young boy and his mother died in the…

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1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor. Wolpe was educated at the University of the…

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1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible …

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1939-2018

Hugh Masekela

… young age, and began to play piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man with a Horn, Masekela began to play the trumpet, encouraged by anti-apartheid…

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1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… he joined Afrapix and worked as a stringer for Reuters in the Eastern Cape.  His 1990 photo-essay on a Northern Sotho initiation ceremony, entitled “The…

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician. His parents, … were Jews who had immigrated to South…

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1963-1976

Hector Pieterson

… Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima…

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in … matriculating in 1948.’ He pursed Medical…

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Nise Bulelwa Malange

… As a young teenager she became fascinated and involved in the trade union work of her uncle Rev. Marawu. She attended … River then in Nyanga East, but in…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician…

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Veerammal Naidoo

… Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political activist in the Transvaal (now…

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1948

Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla

… Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban…

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a ……

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1966

Zola Budd

… In 1984 she gained international recognition when, at the age of 17, she broke the women's 5000m world record. As this performance took place in apartheid…

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1936

Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker

… South Africa.He attended Durban High School,graduated from the University of Natal in 1961,completed an honors degree at … of South Africa,and later master's…

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1957

Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla

… for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Natal. It was at university that Phaahla became a member of the Students…

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1956

Graham Goddard

… Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on the Cape Flats, in Wetton, Wynberg…

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