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2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later…

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1938

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James …

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1886-1982

Henry Selby Msimang

… Joel Msimang was a well-known African preacher who founded the Independent Methodist Church. Msimang Selby received his primary education at the Emakosini…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… Introduction Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in…

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1940

Sindiso Mfenyana

… Background and Childhood Sindiso Mfenyana is descended from the Bhele clan, which is an offshoot of the Hlubi tribe. He traces his roots back to a small town…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… family was not political, they were religious and it was the Christian moral values he learnt at home and the science he learnt at university that gave rise…

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

… was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell … and lecturer. Both his parents were active…

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1947

Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

… teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… grateful to his English teacher, David Miller. Miller was the only schoolteacher he named in his brief and unrevised … and he credited him for instilling in…

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1949

Joseph Alfers

… Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg,…

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1928-2010

Professor Fatima Meer

… Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her mother,…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were…

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1930-2013

Amina Cachalia

… ) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was a companion of Mohandas Karamchand …

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1892-1950

Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal

… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal was the son of the Jariam Singh, a former President of the Transvaal Indian …

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1940-2009

Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang

… 25 kilometers from Durban. She matriculated in 1959, at the age of 19. Tshabalala-Msimang went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 from the…

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… on 26 May 1934 and grew up in District Six. He attended the Kipling Street Muslim primary school in Salt River and … Six, where his political awareness was…

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… Andrew Murray was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland … until 1845 when he…

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1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall Campbell. ……

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where Sotho and Nguni languages were spoken. … the…

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1894-1961

James la Guma

… Province). A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, Arnold, and his wife Jemima. While the…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth … and trade union organiser. His union comrades knew…

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He was the son of Henry Francis Burton, a magistrate and civil commissioner. … He first studied literature…

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1910-1978

Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker

… Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) from the mid-1930s to 1945, … Hindus and…

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1938-2011

Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg

… Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. … daughter, thereby developing a close…

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1921-1993

Andries Treurnicht

… awarded a B.A. he enrolled in 1942 for an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a student at the Stellenbosch Theological Seminary until 1945…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the Askeaton Primary School,…

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1936-2012

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander

… Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school … teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was…

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1925-1988

Dr. Connie Mulder

… Cornelius Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started…

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1925-1988

Cornelius Petrus Mulder

… Cornelius ("Connie") Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He…

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