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1930

Plaatjies Joseph Paul

… Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. … a…

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1946

Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk

… Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and the transition to the apartheid regime in 1948, and in 1950, …

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1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape , however, there are other sources that claim she was born in the Polokwane area, as her…

B-0008503

1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s … other teams. He would walk about 10 miles …

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Chauke Family

… The Chaukes live in Blinkwater, near Msengi in the Limpopo Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific…

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1963

Jeremy Vearey

… Vearey was born in 1963 in Elsies River. He describes the area as a ‘different Elsies River’ than today as it was … ‘informal’ settlement in a large family,…

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1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were … The Presidency. (2011)…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country estate outside…

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1934-2012

Ellen Lambert

… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . She joined the African National … SABC, (2012),  ANC veteran…

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1943-1980

Pierre Jacy Fourie

… was born on 26 June 1943 in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the…

B-0008080

1953-1982

Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

… Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, and when his parents…

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

… Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei …

B-0008472

1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September … Permanent…

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1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… was born in 1949 in Cape Town . In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS) and … [23 July 2012]|…

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1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

… father Gana Makabeni  was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced … finance her part-time studies at secondary…

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1940

Mary Maria Burton

… born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and … small towns in Argentina, due to her…

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1810-1872

Charles Du Val

… Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and … long-time associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in…

B-0008035

1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple … an immigrant from Sunderland, was a shop…

B-0066278

1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

… Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East … London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key…

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1983

Portia Modise

… Province). Modise chose football at a young age over the more popular girls’ choice of netball. She started playing soccer at the age of seven. She grew up…

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1915-2003

Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima

… Kaiser  Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government…

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… on 10 June 1938 in Raphahla Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale Phokanoka … before finally settling in Swekwati…

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … itself when she was fifteen years old…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of…

B-0008887

1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… Walter Gilbert Wiles and studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … by her…

B-0008709

1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… Richard  Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first…

B-0068451

2018

Vondela Landingwe

… for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the … Robben Island prisoner,…

B-0125519

1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… 1947, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at…

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1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… was born on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid…

B-0008941

1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They … his mother was a noted soprano, and his father played the…

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