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1930

Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

… Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of…

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1952

Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul

… Chatsworth, Durban — an area designated for Indians under the notorious Group Areas Act . He attended the local primary school and then attended Chatsworth…

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1935

Anderson Khumani Ganyile

… in 1959.  Ganyile’s interest in politics was sparked by the African National Congress  (ANC) 1952 Defiance Campaign . In 1959,as a first year student at the…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She worked at the Tumelong Anglican mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria…

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Wycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi

… President of the  All African Convention  (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first … then later practised…

B-0009167

1810-1906

Inkosi Sigananda Shezi

… joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax by the colonial government. During the …

B-0009034

1913-1970

Debi Singh

… teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G…

B-0009064

2012

Thembelakhe Mati

… Thembelakhe Mati (50) was from Ntabankhulu in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Mr Mati was killed after he was shot in the leg. Initially the state…

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1910-1990

Gerard Bhengu

… Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early education at the Roman Catholic Mission School of Esibomvwini at Centecow, in the Creighton region of Natal. From…

B-0007850

1942

Jeanie Noel

… something that was not common in coloured communities at the time. She attended St. Theresa, a catholic primary school … but that teacher was not allowed to…

B-0008810

1956-2003

Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba

… this experience, as Andy Mason has noted, with elements of the satirical ‘that combines social realism with the surreal’. Another recent observation on his…

B-0008401

1907-1988

Sushila Gandhi

… was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… Africa. He was 75. His death was reported on Saturday by the British newspaper The Guardian, which said he had emphysema. Over the years, Mr. Naidoo, who was…

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John J. Skomolo

… John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC…

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Margaret Chuene Mncadi

… Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. She…

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1902-1978

Jan Bouws

… musician, composer, lecturer and author, was born in the Netherlands in Purmerend on 28 July 1902. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam…

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1953

Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

… in Botswana. She obtained a BA in History and English at the University of Botswana in 1977 before leaving for overseas where she subsequently graduated with…

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Robert Moffat

… His parents were not wealthy. He was father-in-law to the missionary-explorer, David Livingstone and father to John … by Cecil John Rhodes to negotiate what…

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Siva Pillay

… KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s military wing. The Natal MK Regional Technical Committee included…

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1948

Paul Michael Sibisi

… As there no art classes at Adams College, he acted on the advice of Masondo and applied to study at Ndaleni … under Lorna Peirson with financial assistance…

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1968

Rebecca Malope

… in 1968 in Lekazi near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga . Beyond the fact that she did not progress that far in her education, … and her sister Cynthia hiked 400 km…

B-0008424

1967-1985

Sipho Philip Mutsi

… Sipho Philip Mutsi died in 1985 at the Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was arrested with…

B-0075593

1962

Guy Tillim

… born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a … - 88) and Agence France Presse …

B-0009146

1922

George Edward Peake

… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the  South African Coloured People's Organisation  (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the Cape in…

B-0068302

1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… was born and died at Ndwedwe, Natal. He attended school in the Ndwedwe district, excelling at craftwork. He went to … there he received a bursary to train as…

B-0008132

1976

Edward Mzolo

… Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. No details are available on the date…

B-0074833

1949

Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela

… Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus , after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape . She…

B-0007811

1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… a dominee, a published poet - considered by some to be the best mystical poet in Afrikaans - and a prolific author. … also composed a number of hymns that…

B-0007996

1930

Zachius Botlhoko Molete

… Zachius Botlhoko Molete was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His … League politics. In December 1949 he…

B-0068070

1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… and renowned female political leaders, her father was the prominent politician, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman , leader of the African Peoples Organisation (APO)…

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