SAHO global search

1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

… world) and said he wanted to learn from how to become a great film director from Keith Rose - who founded the company …

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1795-1836

King Sobhuza I

… legacy that influenced their way of life and philosophy a great deal. Apparently, one night shortly before his death, …

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… reflection of a lifestyle and system of beliefs that held great respect for local history, culture and tradition. She …

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1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… freedom.... He grew to become the giant he was, one of the great guides of the struggle our people had and have to wage …

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… Brown [the Liberal Party leader] and Jack Simons, two great South Africans." Simons was a research fellow at the …

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1954-2019

Paul Grendon

… history from the arrival of the first ships, through the Great Trek, to the exploitation of the land and the mineral …

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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… household were taught music from an early age. Grace had great (but unrealised) potential as a soprano, and Meekly … in England. Although King Kong was a…

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1966

Zola Budd

… to claim the world record officially, while representing Great Britain in 1985, clocking 14:48.07. Despite being a …

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1874-1932

Daniel Simon Letanka

… a secretary of the House of Chiefs. Respected as a man of great integrity and diligence, he helped to solicit from …

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… and white areas of the design. Although influenced by the great French cartoonist, lithographer and draughtsman Honoré …

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1943-1980

Pierre Jacy Fourie

… the work on the farm and mechanical hobbies were of great importance. He died when his car struck a fence at …

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1978

Hestrie Cloete

… for other coaches to train her. Cloete always put a great significance in maintaining a strong mind, and ascribed …

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1945-1988

Stanley Bongani Nkosi

… |981: University of Omaha; Lincoln University; Great Plains Museum; First Federal Bank of Lincoln City, USA …

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1919

Olive Peace Landman

… Institution from 1907 to 1939. Olive remembers with great pride her maternal-great grandfather, Ryk Booi Pieterse, a Xhosa Pramberg herder … in London to be…

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1921-1984

Peter Becker

… wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years were of great significance, for being born to middle-aged parents and … younger than his two elder brothers,…

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1952

Aleta Michaletos

… - Featured in the American Biographical Institute's Great Minds of the 21st Century. - Second residency at the …

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… was probably working as a nurse in Pretoria . During the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918 , while she was still in …

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James Ford

… and excellence of the works on the walls. They show the great progress art has made in South Africa in recent years, …

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

… Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong personality. In 1894-1895 he was …

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1912-1974

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

… living wage and freedom- just as people had done with the Great Trek and with the Anglo Boer War. This shows how she …

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1934-2013

Ian Berry

… editor. During the next few months Berry was exposed to a great deal of political violence, starting with the …

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1929-2011

Margaret Nash

… P W Botha . It caused international outrage and was a great embarrassment for the South African government, …

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1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… 1846–1847. [viii] These were wars in which Hermanus Loots’ great, great grandfather Christian Jacobus Groepe was actively … is described as being a very…

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1814-1882

King Sekhukhune

… the Marota Empire. It had been defended bravely against great odds: The death of Sekhukhune did not pass … of the Transvaal and Natal... It was, indeed to a…

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1888-1956

Sonja Schlesin

… across such purity, single-minded devotion to work and great determination as I have seen in Miss Schlesin. I was … intention of resistance. On 17 October,…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… in the family. From very early, the parents placed great emphasis on their children being educated even when it … difficult. Though the family was poor, the…

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1770

Chief Dingiswayo

… his subjects to travel and trade. Consequently, a great development in crafts occurred. Milk dishes, pillows, … of Ntombazi, Zwide's mother. With the death…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… of the horrors of the regime in South Africa, he made a great impact on Australian community attitudes to apartheid. … approach and his mastery of the facts…

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1910-1978

Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker

… organisation, and was exposed to radical ideas. To a great extent this group laid the foundation of his later … I. Kajee  and PR Panther. By 1945 Naicker had…

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1809-1882

Nathaniel James Merriman

… Grahamstown on 16 August 1882. Unconventional and a man of great integrity, Merriman had a natural gift for observation, …

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