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1936

George Sewpersadh

… to Reservoir Hills as their property was taken over by the then Department of Community Development. He first … until Standard Three (Grade 5). After this he…

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1880

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

… was born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer … London. His efforts impressed his…

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1920-2013

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

… 1920 in Johannesburg , daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied … him to political meetings and became…

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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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1938

Nana Henrietta Moabi

… Transvaal (now known as Polokwane in Limpopo ) and the St Mountford Convent in Louis Trichardt, as well as the Kilnerton Training College. She joined the Pan…

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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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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he was a member of the Progressive Forum. In 1951, two of Dundee’s sons, Karrim … at Wits as politically trained and dedicated…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American Body Missionary and was…

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1905-1982

John Collins

… John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…

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1908-1982

Ellen Phyllis Hellman

… in Johannesburg , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South … Theilheimer. Hellman was educated at…

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1950

Siphiwe Nyanda

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic … inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted…

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Billy Paddock

… grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where … provincial colours and later participated and…

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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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1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

… a diploma in Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University … social work after a year. She was…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. … of avant-garde images.  As a woman artist, she…

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1812-1893

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

… 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near Winburg, where he joined the Voortrekker…

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…

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1940-2006

Louis Problem Mkhize

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … recruited Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize first into the trade union…

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… acting as King. Jongintaba raised Nelson Mandela at the ‘Great Place’ Mqhekezweni when his own father died in the 1920s.Many years later, former Prime…

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1961

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

… Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… Naidoo , was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of Hermann Kallenbach , established the Tolstoy Farm where…

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1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

… Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" … and distributing leaflets. She attended mass meetings at the Red Square,…

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2006

Daniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi

… Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto.  He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high … of a religious…

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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… Nkabinde became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black…

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1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… he did both his primary and high school education. During the  1976 uprisings , Mokaba became a leader of school … matric on his own in 1978 and then went on…

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1926-1977

Viola Hashe

… Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province ). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…

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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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Joel Joffe

… from Palestine. After a Catholic boarding school, the Marist Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,…

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