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1942

Letta Mbulu

… her teens, she toured South Africa and then England with the musical  King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced…

B-0067933

1945

Barry “Anderson” Richards

… at his early teens and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior team in the early sixties. In 1967 he took a contract with an English … His blossoming…

B-0008957

1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale Mission School, where he…

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1928-1980

Kate Dinkwetsi Molale

… accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the African National Congress (ANC) . She was actively involved in various…

B-0067991

Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… She was sent to Sweden to study on scholarship from the Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa …

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1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s, Louw’s personal relationships took her into … one of Cape…

B-0008338

1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… he completed his higher primary school studies in 1951 at the Charles Max Secondary School. From 1951 to 1958 he attended the Kilnerton Training Institution…

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… appreciate his son’s love for music and allow him to play the piano. Unfortunately, the piano was chopped up to make firewood one winter. In 1975, Mseleku…

B-0095589

1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… politics for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning of his political career because of his famous … in England, at Winchester and Oxford. He…

B-0008027

1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… . Vilakazi was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the…

B-0009203

1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… plant, where he became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council…

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1939

Wopko Jensma

… in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom , but his studies were … Degree in Fine Arts with Botshabelo Training…

B-0008203

1932

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

… political study groups run mainly by students from the nearby University of Fort Hare, and in 1954 he joined the African National Congress Youth League …

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… interpreter while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the University of Natal and bachelor of law degree in 1959 from the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher … and saddler, Ngcobo studied at…

B-0008774

1908-1970

Paul Herman Robinson

… and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at the Natal Technical College. He did his apprenticeship in commercial art at the EP and Commercial…

B-0008962

1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

… in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple and close associate…

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Ben Khoapa

… moved to Johannesburg where he began working for the YMCA. In 1968, the YMCA sent him on a trip to the United States where he learned about the political ……

B-0073075

2012

Nkosiyabo Xalabile

… Nkosiyabo Xalabile (30) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2004. On … at scene 2 after being shot in his thigh and…

B-0121639

Betty Radford

… Betty Radford was arrested after the 4 August 1946 miner’s strike, together with, among others, WH Andrews and Moses Kotane . She was the editor of the…

B-0008927

Zulumathabo Zulu

… more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical…

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1926-2009

Gerrit Viljoen

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated ……

B-0068727

1926

Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated ……

B-0009204

1963

David Tsolwane Uhuru Hlongwane

… David Hlongwane was born on 1 January 1963 in the Zwelethemba township of Worcester. He studied at Vuyisile … Chicken Farms in Worcester temporarily,…

B-0098953

1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, … disputes with their municipality…

B-0007828

2012

Bongani Mdze

… Bongani Mdze (28) was from Jabavu, Mataliele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2005. He was the first person in his family to work at the…

B-0121615

1966

Pule Pheto

… and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and his brother Gibo … a…

B-0122712

1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

… as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the founding of Dlangezwa High School in Natal in 1969 where … until 1976. In 1974 he studied PhD…

B-0007851

1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to … to live with family while his father was…

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1931-2000

Ismail Mahomed

… parents. He had five siblings. After matriculating at the Pretoria Indian Boys’ High School at the end of 1950, he was accepted to do a BA at the University…

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