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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. At the time, Riverlea, Johannesburg, Transvaal …

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1900

Esther Franks

… Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. …

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment…

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1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first democratic elections. Kumalo was the second…

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1931-1972

Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane

… was born in 21 January 1931 in Moria. His father is the founder of the  Zion Christian Church (ZCC)  in 1910. He attended school … (standard nine). Joseph…

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1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… de guerrre in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a…

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1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic priesthood before changing course again.He … metalworkers,but abandoned this in 1968…

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1923

Lutchmee Marie

… mother worked as a domestic worker, washing clothes in the local white community. Her father was a factory … worker. All of Lutchmee’s siblings went to…

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David Anderson

… editorial cartooning career in 1977, submitting work for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including…

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1950

Peter Jones

… High School in 1976, he became politically active  at the University of the Western Cape . He helped to launch the campus branch of the South  African…

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1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around … school, he initially wanted to study law, however,…

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1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called … worked in Johannesburg and they lived in Sophiatown …

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… He left England for Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South … crime reporter. His mother was a…

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1920

Marutle Flag Boshielo

… was born to a poor family in 1920 in Phokoane village, in the Sekhukhuneland district in Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo Province.     Boshielo joined the …

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… then went on to study for a Diploma in Commercial Art at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT, now Durban … Technology) in 1962. She also did part-time…

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… Ntsanwisi was born on 11 July 1920 at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With…

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1969

Lucas Radebe

… old, his parents sent him away to Bophuthatswana to avoid the violence in the township. Soccer was one of his favourite pastimes, and … Chief scouts, who…

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1936

Moritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein

… Manu Herbstein was born in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in … Scotland…

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1895-1962

Elliot Tonjeni

… Elliot Tonjeni was born in 1895 in the Transkei and later went to Cape Town, where he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) and was active in…

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1957

Cedric Nunn

… Natal (KwaZulu-Natal)  on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and … Sugar Mill from 1974 until 1981. Nunn…

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1897-1986

Gertrud Theiler

… Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife,…

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1977

Makhaya Ntini

… was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's development…

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1962

Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela

… were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the University of Swaziland in 1987 and three years later, an … School, and taught from 1980 to 1983…

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1910

Lawrence Nkosi

… 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took … •…

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1949

Cynthia Shange

… in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title Miss Natal, which qualified her to enter the Miss South Africa competition for Black…

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1956

Ndabenhle William Zulu

… He was born at Nsengeni in the Vryheid district. He attended the Nsengeni Mission School. In 1968 he moved to Emondlo Township and attended the Ikhethelihle…

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1901

John Stephen Gomas

… Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced mother,he completed most of his school before moving…

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1874-1959

Daniel Francois Malan

… D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a…

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Ramnie Dinat

… Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo , worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)  since her childhood. At the age of…

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