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Sobhuza I

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and …

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1941

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

… Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal - … and then a LLB degree in 1965. At…

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Molefe Pheto

… As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and eventually … teacher. In 1970, as a young man he…

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1930-1978

Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum

… early age, and as a young boy, Sewgolum took to imitating the golfers he had seen on a nearby golf course by hitting a … as a caddie he was given an old…

B-0009023

1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the  University of  Zululand to study law. On campus he joined the Black Consciousness movement. …

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks, ultimately becoming the Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s…

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1953

Edwin Cameron

… obtained a BA in Jurisprudence with first class honours, the Jurisprudence Prize, BCL with first class honours and the Vinerian Scholarship. Cameron later…

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest of…

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Thomas G. Karis

… on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South African liberation movement, died of natural causes on August 18 at the age of 97. Professor…

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1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… ) on 30 November 1908. Her family was originally from the Thanjavur district in India and her maternal grandparents … selling fruit and vegetables to hotels…

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before … of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the NAPAC Opera…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… The Atteridgeville Super Stadium was renamed the Lucas 'Masterpieces' Moripe Stadium after the legendary Pretoria soccer player. This followed a meeting … …

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1942

Pitika Ntuli

… got involved in politics, and he was an active member of the struggle against the apartheid government to which resulted in him being exiled from South…

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various … interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one of the…

B-0068485

1950

Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi

… began his primary education at Entokozweni Nursery School. The 1960s forced removals saw his family relocating to … Orlando West High School while his was…

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1949-2015

Clive Edward Butler Rice

… from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University of Natal. Clive started playing cricket for the Transvaal Nuffield XI in 1967 and…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up … his high school years in Soweto, Mabasa…

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1966-1986

Andrew Sibusiso Zondo

… He developed an interest in politics at a young age and by the age of 16, became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and went into exile in … we…

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1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded …

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1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo…

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1965

Phila Portia Ndwandwe

… Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami…

B-0073820

1955

Adam Glasser

… Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later … family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of…

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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 … in anthropology.   David became actively…

B-0009218

1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… Richard  Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first…

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1932-2008

Miriam Makeba

… to sing at church, and performed her first solo during the 1947 Royal Visit. Miriam began her working life helping her mother clean houses. In the 1950s, she…

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1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the multinational petroleum industry. That industry … dumped petroleum waste in Saro-Wiwa’s home region,…

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1942

Helene Marie Passtoors

… Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in the struggles of…

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1795-1836

King Sobhuza I

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and … First king of the Swazi  …

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1949

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

… College until 1967 and began her tertiary studies 1971 at the University of Zululand . She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Science (BSc) and left the country…

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1926-1982

Poomoney Moodley

… in Natal. In 1930, when Poomoney was two years old, the family moved to Clairwood. Her father was a policeman and her mother supplemented the family income…

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