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1921-2007

Arthur David Bensusan

… was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College, … studies at Witwatersrand University …

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1873-1936

Sidney Percival Bunting

… Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review . His …

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1949

Gill Marcus

… born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in … for Girls. Her parents,both accountants…

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Unknown-1663

Doman

… to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the capacity of the Dutch to reduce indigenous people to positions of … Trained interpreter and…

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1786-1870

King Moshoeshoe I

… Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. … Potgieter,…

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1956

Dr Hersheela Narsee

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School from…

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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a … Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court…

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's … went bankrupt and although…

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1869-1945

Thomas Mtobi Mapikela

… Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born  in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a … Colony Native Vigilance Association ,known subsequently as the…

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1936-2017

Philip Ata Kgosana

… Philip Ate Kgosana was born in 1936 in Makapanstad in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a minister.  He graduated from the Lady…

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture … African letters, passed away in Lebowakgomo,…

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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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1932-2013

Louis Luyt

… on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his … he captained the Orange…

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1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal.Mtshali became active in the trade union movement, organising workers…

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1967

Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo

… Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna…

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. … a deep love of and interest in her…

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1931

Raymond Ackerman

… Please note:  This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…

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1921-2020

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

… father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his father was a builder belonging to the…

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1919-2005

Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng

… "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to … (1977)  From Protest to…

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1950

Biddy Partridge

… Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South African Council for Higher Education (SACHED). From 1978-1982, she was the editor and a…

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Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… [Chief] Abram Ramotshere Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up … S. Badat…

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1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… 1953, in South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in the Rustenburg district. In…

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1950

Charles Nupen

… 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts with …  “Had a huge…

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1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma Nkondo left Lorenco Marques … (2011), South African Communist…

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1619-1677

Jan van Riebeeck

… with whom he had eight children. Jan van Riebeeck joined the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische … surgeon on a voyage to Batavia (today known…

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1961

Graeme Williams

… Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass … His first job…

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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and ……

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