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1964

Ntela Richard Sikhosana

… person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist … he was forced into exile in Mozambique,…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo family moved to Evaton, a…

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1914-2006

Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo

… Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho . She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930…

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Mavuso Walter Msimang

… in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of…

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1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife…

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1911-1980

Lillian Masediba Ngoyi

… factory where she worked from 1945 to 1956. She joined the  Garment Workers Union (GWU)  under Solly Sachs, and soon became one of its leading figures…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa. At the age of 14 he started playing the…

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1940-2005

Nesta Mathom Nala

… Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve,…

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1963

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane

… Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters and…

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due ……

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1934

Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga

… Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘ homeland’ , now Limpopo province. However, … moved to…

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1920-1977

Elmon Malele

… Elmon Malele was born in Mapulaneng in the Limpopo Province (Transvaal) in 1920. Malele came to … in 1943, and stayed in Alexandra township. He was one of…

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Nombuso Mchunu

… 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union , while she looked for permanent … to union documents resulted in her…

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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a … to study further, and it was there…

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1920

Jaydew Nasib Singh

… Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a…

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Paul Landau

… Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today" … organised by South African History…

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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when it was found in 1944. In the 1950s he was very…

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1932-1995

Barney Simon

… June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non…

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1900

Esther Franks

… Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. …

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment…

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T. J. Lemon

… in 1984 whilst studying pharmacy. After winning the "Nikon Press Photograph of the Year" for an image used in a student newspaper, he … From 1989 to 1990 he…

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. At the time, Riverlea, Johannesburg, Transvaal …

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1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

… Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer. … At a…

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1931-2015

Lauretta Ngcobo

… Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s though her work was only published in the 80s and 90s. Ngcobo was one of the main…

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1912-2001

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba

… Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der Kemp Mission Primary School where he was … his father encouraged by buying him pencils…

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1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first democratic elections. Kumalo was the second…

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1931-1972

Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane

… was born in 21 January 1931 in Moria. His father is the founder of the  Zion Christian Church (ZCC)  in 1910. He attended school … (standard nine). Joseph…

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1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… de guerrre in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a…

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