SAHO global search

1930-1985

Molly Blackburn

… Molly Blackburn was born in 1930.  She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in Port … 1…

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1929-1981

Joe Nzingo Gqabi

… born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer … after coming to Johannesburg in 1951…

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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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1958

Michael Sedgwick

… Michael Sedgwick was born on the 20th February 1958 in Claremont in the Western Cape. He grew up in Hanover Park on the Cape … with a teacher, Virginia Engel…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his …

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… only two years. Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His father, Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima, was…

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1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… Krugersdorp , western Gauteng , in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her father was the nephew of Samuel Matshoba, an…

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1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… National organiser of the  African National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei … Business person, teacher, National…

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1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the…

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1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the…

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1643-1674

Krotoa (Eva)

… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he … by Dan Sleigh (Secker…

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1942-1985

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

… went to Forbes Grant Secondary School where she completed the junior certificate (Grade 10). In 1959, she matriculated at Healdtown, Fort Beaufort in the…

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… His father, Jan de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) … F.W. de Klerk: The Nobel…

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1932-2016

Diana Mary Mitchell

… but was most noted for being a liberal politician opposing the White minority regime of Ian Smith's Rhodesia. Her birth name was Diana Mary Coates … Her…

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2016

Juda Ngwenya

… Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper,…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

… on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his … students would be learning a foreign language,…

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1933-1986

Florence Barbara Ribeiro

… Born on the 3rd November 1933, community worker Florence Barbara Ribeiro was the fourth of five children. Her father, Henry Mathe, was a labourer in ……

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Chief Maqoma

… "Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars. Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika,…

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1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school education at Orlando West High … soccer. Myeza advanced especially in…

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1942

Helene Marie Passtoors

… Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in the struggles of…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… was a physicist and an agnostic and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and inequalities of Apartheid made a huge … first act…

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1773-1830

David Stuurman

… David Stuurman was born around 1773, probably near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi and San people were…

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1923

James “Jobe” Hadebe

… John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, … Teacher…

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1896-1951

Clements Kadalie

… April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi . He was the second born son of Mr and…

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1903-1979

Johannes (Jan) de Klerk

… de Klerk was born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De … school at…

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1928-2013

Phyllis Naidoo

… Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal ) on the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and principal. His occupation ……

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1955

Diane Case

… Diane Case was born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to…

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1900

Esther Franks

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

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… His family came from a non-Setswana-speaking ethnic group, the Beyei. Mpho attended Moremi Primary School in Maun, and … 1948, he returned to South Africa…

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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… Nkabinde became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black …

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