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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… a local magistrate's court before going to Johannesburg in the early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC)…

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

… Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. … Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…

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1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… Scots Presbyterian missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, 1908. …

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1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda McKenzie. He attended Melbourne Road … whom he married and they had…

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1949-2001

Jeffry Dumo Baqwa

… Jeffry Dumo Baqwa was born on 24th of July 1949 in Pinetown, Natal. He was the second child and oldest son (two younger brothers were to … Baqwa became…

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1915-2006

Hilda Bernstein

… Africa she became active in organisations associated with the struggle for National Union of Distributive Workers. She was a member of the South African…

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1847-1932

Harriette Emily Colenso

… Colenso was She was born in Norfolk, England, in 1847, the oldest child of Bishop John William Colenso of Natal. Until her father's … death in 1883, she…

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1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble … Teacher, who was resistant to the…

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1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During…

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1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the University of the North (also known…

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1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… National Congress camps in 1984 , which culminated into the ‘ Stuart Report .’ [i] According to political journalist … would have been mass executions if…

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1957

Mohammed Valli Moosa

… that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained his BSc degree in 1978. In 1976 he joined the Black…

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1932

Mimi Coertse

… donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and…

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1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a … to Healdtown, and a significant…

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi … Naidoo , was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy…

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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 Mabasa in … his high school years in Soweto…

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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October … as well as a Masters Degree in Public…

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1931-2018

Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'

… born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist … Later that year Boraine served as a…

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… Weinberg was born in Johannesburg  on 1 October 1945, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the   South African…

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1920

Isaac Osier Horvitch

… Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…

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1925

Gertrude Shope

… and Soweto . When she was 29 years old she decided to join the  African National Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign…

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1979

Alexander Leor Fattal

… Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to … Area Studies, focusing on Latin America and…

B-0008057

1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, … one child with is wife, Josephine, nee…

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Gwede Mantashe

… Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree … NUM, (2011). Gwede Mantashe-General…

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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…

B-0096208

1936

George Sewpersadh

… to Reservoir Hills as their property was taken over by the then Department of Community Development. He first attended Manor Gardens … until Standard Three …

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1938

Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils

… immigrants from Latvia and Lithuania, who had fled from the Czarist pogroms at the end of the 19th century.  His father was a factory salesman and … Member…

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1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

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

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1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban . She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the Northern Transvaal but…

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