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Keable Mote

… Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in 1924 and subsequently…

B-0008661

A. J. Sililo

… A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in  Durban , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…

B-0009053

1903-1960

Ida Fiyo Mntwana

… Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the  African National Congress Women’s League  and a leader … from Western…

B-0067964

1978

Hestrie Cloete

… in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She grew up in the small town of Coligny , Western Transvaal (now North West … Province ) with her mother Martie and…

B-0007946

1976

Jacob Zungwane Mashabane

… On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a … Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at the Johannesburg Fort after being…

B-0074817

1952

Ari Sitas

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head…

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1934-2013

Ian Berry

… Adams, vouched for him as an immigrant and taught him the technical basics of photography while employing him as an … proceeded to work at a photographic…

B-0007844

1955

William Kentridge

… he attained a degree in Politics and African Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand after which he studied art at the Johannesburg Art Foundation…

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S. S. Tema

… Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the periphery of…

B-0068536

1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South…

B-0008904

1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many explosions carried out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto,…

B-0073992

1942-2024

Edward “Eddie” Webster

… Philosophy from York University. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster established the Society, Work and…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on the south coast of Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. In early ……

B-0094271

1924-1960

Ephraim Chaka

… Chaka, Lekhowa David Chaka, Maniki Chaka and Meiti Chaka. The family lived in Sharpeville. He enjoyed riding his … every day to work. Chaka worked as a block…

B-0125868

1903-1985

John Koenakeefe Mohl

… Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who … father eventually withdrew him from…

B-0008603

1930-2006

Mazisi Raymond Kunene

… Albert Kunene, a labourer.He grew up at Amahlongwa on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast and attended primary school … age and was published in newspapers and…

B-0008288

1955-1985

Malesella Benjamin Moloise

… 1985 at Pretoria Central Prison for his supposed role in the 1982 murder of a black security policeman. However, the African National Congress claimed…

B-0076034

1904

Simon Tyeku

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…

B-0009175

1804-1856

Chief Kgosi Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His…

B-0068424

1912-1964

Daniel R Koza

… Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed  Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and…

B-0067728

1960

Ismail Vadi

… Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…

B-0068648

1986

Luvuyo Mgobhozi

… (ANC) members were executed in what became known as the "Quarry Road" incident near Durban on September 7, 1986. The men were uMkhonto we Sizwe operatives,…

B-0077101

1919

M. J. M. Williams Shope

… M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his … and Railway and Harbours worker,…

B-0121658

1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… Nomkhosi  Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of … African National Congress (ANC) member to be executed by…

B-0008564

1947-1972

Mthuli ka Shezi

… a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the Students Representative Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his…

B-0096633

Josias Madzunya

… Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931, …

B-0008366

1889

Bertha Mkhize

… after his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. … also…

B-0067956

1894-1974

William George Ballinger

… in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British Independent Labour Party as an Advisor to the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union…

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