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1886-1955

Richard Victor Selope Thema

… were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the Mamabolo tribe who, through early contact with … education when he ran away from school in 1901 and…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated…

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1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of … Political activist and a member of the African…

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or…

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1931-2021

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu

… Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His … Zachariah, who was educated at a Mission school, was the…

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1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous … commercial centre in Cape Town’s southern…

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… grew up in Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High School, where he matriculated in 1997…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… "As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must … with the struggle for liberation and a just…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in … in Benoni, then moved to springs…

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1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… born in 1929.  His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 … Chemical engineer,…

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are now both … Founding member of COSATU,…

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1946

Malcolm Payne

… "First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I like the…

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… Ruth Mompati was born on 14 September 1925 in the village called Khanyesa in the North West Province . She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko and her father…

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1908-2003

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

… Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a graduate of the prestigious Fort Hare University and graduated in 1935 … priest and a wealthy land owner who…

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1795-1875

Abraham Faure

… was born on 29 August 1795 in Stellenbosch. Faure was one of the leading personalities of his tune in church and intellectual circles at the Cape. As a…

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1949-2024

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

… The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…

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1911-2002

Errol T. Shanley

… Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents … went to work for a firm of building…

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1905-1978

Moses Mauane Kotane

… Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came … General secretary of…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was … later and Eulalie remained with her…

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1967-1991

Vuyani Mabaxa

… up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s, he was one of many…

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Billy Paddock

… Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where … provincial…

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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and … married in 1923.  His father was an…

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Bisho Jarsa

… Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his … grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… his enrollment. Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He…

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1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz … Soldier, High Commissioner of the…

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1933

Mildred Lesiea

… Langa , Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape ), the only official area for African accommodation in Cape Town in the 1930s. She grew up in the…

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1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family … in anthropology.   David…

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