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1927-2005

Kalushi Drake Koka

… Kalushi Drake Koka was born in Pietersburg on the 9th  of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after … in politics, serving as Transvaal vice…

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… Primary Teachers’ Certificate at Bensonvale Institution in the Eastern Cape. Staying in the region, at the renowned Lovedale Institute near Alice, he ……

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1924-1994

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

… Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the…

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the … Johannesburg, South Africa…

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1916-2015

Sarah Carneson

… Russia. Zelic Rubin worked as a tailor and, unusually for the time, employed Coloured and Africans along with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in the…

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1956

Trevor Andrew Manuel

… Cape Town. His father, Abraham Manuel, worked for the Cape Town City Council.Manuel attended Harold Cressy High … position in 1981 to volunteer as a…

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1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine … …

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her … She enters history…

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1936

Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker

… South Africa.He attended Durban High School,graduated from the University of Natal in 1961,completed an honors degree at University of South Africa,and later…

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1957

Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla

… in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Natal. It was at university that Phaahla…

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1903-1973

Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams

… was born on 12 March 1903 in Vilna, Lithuania. He was the son of Zecharya Alter Abramowich and Rachel Leah Sherman. As a … with his parents to England where…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and moved to Pretoria where … left school and became an iron moulding…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… him a concern for workers rights. As a teenager, he joined the South West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO), which became the preeminent liberation…

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1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now … Dangor. She completed her Standard Ten…

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1924-1978

Robert Sobukwe

… on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. His father worked as a municipal … post. He then went back…

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1914-1947

Anton Muziwakhe Lembede

… 1914, Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. … his family relocated to KwaMphepheta in…

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1955

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi

… High in Tembisa Township,  Johannesburg . Upon completion of his matric, he decided to enrol for law studies at the University of the North (renamed…

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1924-2002

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

… Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…

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1916-1988

Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld

… Pieter Beyleveld was born in 1916 in the Orange Free State and educated at farm schools. He joined the army at the outbreak of World War II, when many of his…

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1914-2011

Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin)

… was born on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when … she became an active…

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1859-1921

John Tengo Jabavu

… John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January  in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His … were anxious to give him some education and…

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1965

Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko

… Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on the 2 April 1965, at Charteston Location, Nigel. She completed her junior primary education at the Jabavu East…

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1921-2015

Norman Stewart Middleton

… 10. In 1940, after finishing school, he signed up to join the army.   He was a soldier during World War II in North … Italy and was wounded by shrapnel in an…

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1852-1927

Elizabeth Maria Molteno

… was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With … University of Cape…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He attended the St. Paul’s Catholic school in Mumbai, India, for five years. The…

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… and human rights. [i] She was born in Nyeri, part of the rural region of Kenya on the 1st of April 1940. Maathai was of Kikuyu ethnicity. In …

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1934-2015

Bob Hepple

… , was a trade unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South …

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1950

Mandla Langa

… Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, or KwaDukuza , a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew…

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1961

Janet Mary Cherry

… a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of Science at the University of Cape Town and physics professor, and her …  [Accessed 25…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his … experiences after he had left school was a spell behind…

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