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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. … to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed the Natal…

B-0068389

1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion protested against the  National Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to…

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1865

Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi

… (sometimes spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and…

B-0007819

1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and later an executive on the mines in South African and Northern Rhodesia, currently … six years with …

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1925

Tamsanqa Tasque Tshume

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two…

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1940

Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers

… de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser for…

B-0007994

1959

Thandi Modise

… Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West . Her father, Frans Modise, a…

B-0008591

1919

Olive Peace Landman

… Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. … having trained at…

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children.  He came to South Africa when he was five … Bonnievale High School in 1961,…

B-0009188

1905-1992

Helen Joseph

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

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… in Gratten, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed away in … at Emathafeni High School in…

B-0068165

1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the  University of  Zululand to study law. On campus he joined the Black…

B-0064866

1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both parents were originally…

B-0008788

1917-1985

Jordan Kush Ngubane

… Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in … On graduating from Adams in 1937,…

B-0068246

1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son…

B-0007829

1953

Jeannette Ndhlovu

… and secondary education in South Africa and completed half of her tertiary education at the University of Zululand before she went into exile. … Jeannette…

B-0008756

1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. …

B-0125655

1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… in Middledrift, Eastern Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile Ngcuka. Phumzile Ngcuka became the…

B-0008775

1967

Francois Pienaar

… scholarship to Rand Afrikaner University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg. Pienaar enrolled for Law degree at the university. As a student, Pienaar…

B-0008886

1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member…

B-0007813

1956

Azhar Cachalia

… Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in … in 1974. Between 1975 and 1981 he studied…

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1935

Don Mattera

… immigrant who married a Xhosa or Khoisan woman from the Cape. His grandfather then moved to Johannesburg where Mattera's father was born and classified…

B-0008498

1956

Ben Mclennan

… Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early schooling in Grahamstown , in the Eastern Province (now…

B-0093701

1792-1852

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

… Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the  Graaff Reinet  district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella ……

B-0068319

1928-1999

Dr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer

… Zac de Beer was born on 11 October 1928. He was the second of four children of Jean Isobel and Zacharias Johannes de Beer, a medical doctor. He attended the…

B-0007979

1959

Carl Niehaus

… education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final exams in … that supported Nelson Mandela's…

B-0008791

Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South…

B-0073829

1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito …

B-0122872

1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… McGregor was born on 24 December 1936 in Somerset West in the Western Cape . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where…

B-0095931

1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of … time, Cole…

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