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1890-1968

Eric Hendrik Louw

… Louw was a politician and a diplomat.  During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was…

B-0008337

1895-1960

Sam P. Sesedi

… 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After teaching for many years, he went into … as a butcher in Kimberley. An…

B-0009022

mid 1800s-1921

Martin Lutuli

… Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the…

B-0008346

2012

Thembinkosi Gwelani

… Thembinkosi Gwelani (27) was from Makhwaleni, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. On 16 August he was not employed at Lonmin but had gone to the Koppie to take…

B-0121603

Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… Ahmed Mohamed Cachalia  joined the Satyagraha struggle in the Transvaal. He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he…

B-0007910

1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… a Ph.D. in 1917. His doctoral dissertation, published as  The Education of the South African Native (1917), was long the standard work on me subject…

B-0008334

1974

Herschelle Herman Gibbs

… cricket soon became his first choice. His career began at the early age of 16 when he debuted for the national cricket team, the Proteas, at the Eden Gardens…

B-0008098

1951

David Lurie

… Economics) and taught (Philosophy) at UCT before going to the London School of Economics where he did research and … a part time basis in 1990, and full time…

B-0008343

1910-1960s

Jameson Gilbert Coka

… Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, … his schooling to junior…

B-0007951

1936-1999

Bobby Hendricks

… February 1936. He started his music career as a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). … Later, he founded his own band, Bobby…

B-0008152

1910

Pitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane

… Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the  African National Congress  in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish…

B-0009056

1956

Anthony James (Tony) Leon

… College. Leon went on to register a law degree with the  University of Witwatersrand . His leadership qualities … themselves while still at Witwatersrand…

B-0008317

Stephen Bernard Lee

… 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with dual British-South … South…

B-0008306

1949

Linda Komape

… she began work in a factory in 1975. Here she joined the Metal and Allied Workers Union , and participated in a … she could not find another job. In 1977,…

B-0008273

1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 3 January 1892. After his father … job as tutor and escort to two Mexican boys…

B-0009152

1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… Natal and was later trained in woodwork by Mr Magni at the Swedish Lutheran mission trade school. At the age of twenty-five while an instructor at the…

B-0009261

Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

… Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s…

B-0096273

1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… attended Welsh High School in East London where he joined the underground Pan African Congress (PAC) as a 15-year-old in 1961, attracted by the vision of a…

B-0080383

1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… Joosub was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub…

B-0008213

1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

… in Leicester, England, 1878. Stained glass was integral to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art and design, which aimed at giving a…

B-0008128

1938

Noria Mabasa

… Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal … for only one year, having to walk three hours a…

B-0008349

1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

… taste later in life. Kippie's first musical instrument was the clarinet which he played with his first band known as the Band in Blue. Kippie and the Band in…

B-0008592

1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

… his career as a mining and property magnate as a clerk in the firm of Schiffman and Company in Pretoria, and quickly rose to a managerial position. However,…

B-0008204

1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he … minded students in…

B-0068312

1976

William Nomodi Tshwane

… a stolen vehicle and was shot dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family were told…

B-0074846

Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli

… Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli, originally a resident in the Witzieshoek Native Reserve, Harrismith District, Orange … 8 March 1954 that banished her to Uitkyk Farm…

B-0094684

1917

Elijah Thomas Zondi

… Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu.  He attended the Burnside Community School in Dundee from 1921 to 1926.  From 1931 to 1932, he then attended the…

B-0097662

1777-1855

Sir. Richard Bourke

… impartial administrator. Bourke was subsequently sent to the Cape Colony from 1826-28 as an acting Governor. His main task was to re - work the civil and…

B-0007880

1920

Lorna Peirson

… She was born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a … taught at schools in South Africa and from 1951-1952 at the…

B-0008873

1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South African Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi … World War II and, on returning home, became a…

B-0008174