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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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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…

B-0008102

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…

B-0007896

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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1969

Vicky Sampson

… and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When … old, she moved to District 6 with her…

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1944

Subbiah Moodley

… Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), … Secretary of…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He … 1966 from St Joseph's College, then served…

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Harry Moyaga

… and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an artist. She kept … her influence still sustains him in his…

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

… in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the early 1960s.  He…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… Mosa  Gwangwa  was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…

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1800

Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther

… Born about 1800, in Zomba, Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The country frequently…

B-0007965

1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of … Natal Provincial…

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Elias Monare

… from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955  at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen…

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1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

… Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … such as utensils and headrests. His work was…

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1804-1856

Chief Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His…

B-0009012

1930

Matthew Nkoana

… Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After … In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the  Bantu…

B-0068268

1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade … sugar workers made…

B-0008731

Brigalia Bam

… Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei , in the Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa … a qualified social worker with a post…

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1882-1960

Mary Fitzgerald

… Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to Johannesburg as a…

B-0008072

1915

Benjamin S. Rajuili

… Benjamin S. Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort ……

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Percival Mdala

… Percival Mdala grew up near King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape. He came to the Garden Route in 1956, where he found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton…

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1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

… Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree from the…

B-0008173

1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary … Town , where her…

B-0009054

1930

Plaatjies Joseph Paul

… June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. … a leather-worker by day in a furniture…

B-0008219

1896-1951

Clements Kadalie

… April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi . He was the second born son of Mr and…

B-0008223

1903-1979

Johannes (Jan) de Klerk

… de Klerk was born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta … school at Potchefstroom and from 1923 to…

B-0007986

1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… Walter Gilbert Wiles and studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her … by her marriage to Brian Wiles,…

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1931-1981

Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase

… As a nurse, in South Africa, she participated actively in the struggle for the rights of African nurses, having suffered the indignities of racial…

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