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1950

Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi

… was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg.  Selebi was the African National Congress (ANC) representative to the Soviet Union's World Federation of Democratic…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 … from Eastern Europe who had come to South Africa to…

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1925-2020

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

… Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) … in Soweto, Johannesburg, Transvaal …

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1931-1964

Suliman “Babla” Saloojee

… Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was … a qualified…

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1956

Azhar Cachalia

… in 1974. Between 1975 and 1981 he studied science at the University of Durban Westville and law at the University of Witwatersrand. Azhar was influenced in…

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1958

Jackson Mthembu

… reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal, where he went with his grandmother Sarah Mthembu to work in the mealie fields,…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until grade 11 when he…

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1974-2016

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

… not known publicly about Fezekile Kuzwayo. Unfortunately, the event that she is best known for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the…

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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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Esmé Berman

… author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and completed a … Upon completion she went to London to…

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…

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Gaur Radebe

… about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National Congress  (ANC), he first made his mark…

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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

… ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and his…

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of Durban-Westville (now University of … He went onto to complete his B.Sc Masters degree…

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1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

… mother resorted to running a shebeen in order to provide the family with livelihood means. Modisane wrote that: My mother accepted her life, and I suppose,…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of…

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1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy … and Alice (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents…

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1931-2017

Thandi Klaasen

… most celebrated jazz musicians and a defining voice of the Sophiatown cultural renaissance. The daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic worker, she grew up in…

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1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His … in South Africa in 1930, he was prohibited from entering the country, as he was…

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1972

Zanele Muholi

… Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, and the intersections in between. Her photographs are an attempt … is a time for a visual state of…

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1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother … Matsemela Manaka and his Creative Youth Association (CYA). The…

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… they met once again and as friends became interested in the nationalist movement in India . They met Gandhi in 1925 and also organised a big reception for…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… various jobs since completing school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a … amongst other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught…

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1954

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  … her form 5 and…

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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League. A son to a farm worker,…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing … to work in a tobacco factory. Whilst employed…

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1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

… from Damelin, a Certificate in Defence Management from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Certificate in Personnel Management from IPM. Shoke joined …

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1918-1982

Bartholomew Hlapane

… Bartholomew  Moru Hlapane was  born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African…

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1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… a reference to his slight physique since many beverages at the time were sold in a “¼ pint”. During the 1950s, Quarter was a member of the Transvaal Indian…

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1929-2017

Emma Thandi Mashinini

… was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to … relocate to Sophiatown . In Sophiatown,…

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