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1939

Chief Malebogo

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the Blouberg,…

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1917

Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko

… Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in …

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a … who built his following…

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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 … in Vienna, where she reigned as…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… Roza van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis … pupil of composition and theory with Rimsky…

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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

… Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of  Springs ,  Gauteng  (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals in the area made…

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… on 6 March 1954 in Sophiatown (Johannesburg). He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto We Sizwe … received his military training in Angola,…

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1924-1972

Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson

… was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's … and teacher's diploma…

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1952

Oupa Joshua Gqozo

… Oupa Gqozo was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a … five Gqozo returned to Kroonstad where he…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother.  When she was three years old, the family…

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1964

Pitso John Mosimane

… Mosimane was born on 26 July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and…

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… up in Sophiatown . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… after secondary school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him from enrolling at the…

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1905-1992

Helen Joseph

… Frank. She graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927. She then taught for three … Her service as an information and welfare…

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Chauke Family

… The Chaukes live in Blinkwater, near Msengi in the Limpopo Province, but very little is known about this … art dealer. Their lack of production would suggest…

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1958

Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande

… Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education … of Democratic University Staff Associations (UDUSA) and…

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June Rose Nala

… Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… tertiary education. Haffejee enrolled for inter-science at the Bhavan's College in Bombay and thereafter went Nagpur to … in hockey. Perhaps more importantly…

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1939-2018

Hugh Masekela

… young age, and began to play piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man with a Horn, Masekela began to play the trumpet, encouraged by anti-apartheid…

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician. His parents, … were Jews who had immigrated to South…

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in … matriculating in 1948.’ He pursed Medical…

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1948

Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla

… Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban…

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1966

Zola Budd

… In 1984 she gained international recognition when, at the age of 17, she broke the women's 5000m world record. As this performance took place in apartheid…

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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 … of South Africa,and later master's…

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

… Congress  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security…

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1969

Vicky Sampson

… and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When … old, she moved to District 6 with her…

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1944

Subbiah Moodley

… Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), … Secretary of…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… Mosa  Gwangwa  was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…

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1947-2006

Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga

… one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at … career out of boxing. He started his boxing…

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of … Natal Provincial…

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