SAHO global search

1987

Johnson Ngwevela

… Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the  African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and…

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1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive…

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1959-2014

Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi

… 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu ( Western Cape ). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), was an … Executive…

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1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… where she matriculated in 1928. Kok began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and later at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she…

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1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub…

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… and Indian trade unionist. He is considered one of the few Indian leaders of his day who attempted to transcend … boundaries with some success and to focus…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts … obtained his PHD from Lancaster…

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1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the Apartheid government; and it was situated on the…

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1962

Greg Marinovich

… The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of … church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest the State of Emergency. His interest…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…

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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

… Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of…

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1955

Michael Davis

… Davis served his compulsory one-year call-up in the South African Air Force as a medical orderly. Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University…

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1938-1999

Ezrom Legae

… and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under one roof…

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1929-1985

Simon Moroke Lekgetho

… He was self-taught, despite lessons in drawing taught at the occupational school in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. On … he moved to Pretoria where he worked as a…

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1934

Albert Nzula

… Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal … worked as a court interpreter, and served as secretary of the…

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the forties during the anti- Ghetto Act campaign . With the…

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1949

Bee Berman

… Berman worked as a stage designer and actress at The Space Theatre in Cape Town. From 1980, she worked as a … news freelance photographer. Community…

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1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree ……

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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… He first learned voice and guitar, before settling on the bass as his chosen instrument. As a self-taught musician, his first official group was the Uptown…

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1927-2013

Francois Roux

… Masvingo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He attended the Boys High School, Stellenbosch from 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of…

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1920-1969

Eduardo Mondlane

… Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was also a History and Sociology Professor at Syracuse…

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1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.  André…

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1922-1985

John Nyathi Pokela

… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to … to thirteen years imprisonment in Robben Island for the…

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1953

Fanie Jason

… Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black…

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1932-2005

Arthur Maimane

… in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was also known as the Black Eton of South Africa. Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… and Mosie Moolla later became joint secretaries of the transvaal Indian Youth Congress.In 1952 Desai founded and briefly edited Spark,a youth publication,…

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1955

Eric Miller

… a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered the corporate sector. Frustrated with the media’s misuse of power he left the corporate world in the…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… students but before his final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational methods that black students…

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Keable Mote

… Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in 1924 and subsequently…

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A. J. Sililo

… A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in  Durban , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…

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