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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined Orlando Pirates. He entered the international scene when he was…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and inequalities of Apartheid made a huge … first act of civil disobedience was on 31…

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1851-1897

Barney Barnato

… his brother Harry to Cape Town in 1873 to seek fortune in the diamond rush that followed the 1866 discovery of diamond in Kimberly. He came to South ……

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. … using a…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … for higher…

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John Gomas

… Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the  Communist Party…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg … experiences after he had left school was a spell behind the counter of a…

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J. Congress M. Mbata

… at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1940 he joined the faculty of St. Peter's and subsequently…

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Connie Mofokeng

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the ……

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started … his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady Selbourne…

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1949-2004

Matome Maponya

… Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an … homestead. At…

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of…

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1957

Anna Zieminski

… 1957. She schooled at St Mary's Dominican Convent and the University of Cape Town. In 1983 and 1984 she attended part-time courses in photography at the Ruth…

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1911-1980

Lillian Masediba Ngoyi

… factory, where she worked from 1945 to 1956. Ngoyi joined the  Garment Workers Union (GWU)  under Solly Sachs, and soon became one of its leading figures…

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

… was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him Looksmart … she thought he looked smart. He…

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1961

David Hartman

… mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo family moved to Evaton, a…

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1914-2006

Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo

… Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho . She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930…

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Mavuso Walter Msimang

… in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of…

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1809-1882

Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman

… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at … he offered his services…

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1893-1975

Max Yergan

… Max Yergan was born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and … to 1936 he lived in South Africa as a…

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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be…

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1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife…

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1959

Jane Alexander

… and exposed bone, whiteless eyes and deformed mouths. The three figures wait on a bench, almost casually, pitting … their monstrousness against a sense of…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa. At the age of 14 he started playing the…

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1958

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe

… been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 21 years. Gcina Mhlophe has written many children's … stories and plays. Her writings are…

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1940-2005

Nesta Mathom Nala

… Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve,…

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1963

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane

… Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters and…

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due ……

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1934

Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga

… Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘ homeland’ , now Limpopo province. However, … moved to…

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