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1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, … disputes with their municipality…

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1966

Pule Pheto

… and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and his brother Gibo … a…

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1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

… as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the founding of Dlangezwa High School in Natal in 1969 where … until 1976. In 1974 he studied PhD…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to … to live with family while his father was…

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1931-2000

Ismail Mahomed

… parents. He had five siblings. After matriculating at the Pretoria Indian Boys’ High School at the end of 1950, he was accepted to do a BA at the University…

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Arthur Butelezi

… Butelezi was educated at the Wesleyan Methodist School, Volks rust where he received … Training School in Pretoria where painting was included in the…

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1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… Netherlands on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of…

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Thys Dullaart

… in Photography at Pretoria Technikon. He was a lecturer at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg during 1995 and 1996. In 1999…

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1958-1985

Watson Mzwandile Majova

… Majova,  Paulos Madiba,  Aaron Makwe,  members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we Sizwe …      were killed on 28 November 1985. On 17…

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Pious Goodman Mei

… Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile…

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1930-2015

Maggie Smith

… Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the press…

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. … as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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1920

Kwena Matlala

… Kwena Matlala, born in 1920, was the first daughter of Chief Sekgwari Matlala and Mme Makwena Matlala . She married Nelson Ngakana Moabelo, the ntona of…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) became invovled in politics at the…

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

… was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two years later became the editor of its monthly magazine,He was…

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1875-1927

James E. Kwegyir Aggrey

… chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover in the formation of the Johannesburg…

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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… (then Pietersburg). Her father had been ostracized by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to have his twin children put to death, as the…

B-0009242

1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … where he was held in terms of section…

B-0074811

1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster … an attorney and practised…

B-0077610

1930

Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

… Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of…

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1810-1906

Inkosi Sigananda Shezi

… joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax by the colonial government. During the …

B-0009034

1913-1970

Debi Singh

… teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G…

B-0009064

1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She worked at the Tumelong Anglican mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria…

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1910-1990

Gerard Bhengu

… Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early education at the Roman Catholic Mission School of Esibomvwini at Centecow, in the Creighton region of Natal. From…

B-0007850

1942

Jeanie Noel

… something that was not common in coloured communities at the time. She attended St. Theresa, a catholic primary school … but that teacher was not allowed to…

B-0008810

1956-2003

Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba

… this experience, as Andy Mason has noted, with elements of the satirical ‘that combines social realism with the surreal’. Another recent observation on his…

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1907-1988

Sushila Gandhi

… was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… Africa. He was 75. His death was reported on Saturday by the British newspaper The Guardian, which said he had emphysema. Over the years, Mr. Naidoo, who was…

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Margaret Chuene Mncadi

… Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. She…

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Siva Pillay

… KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s military wing. The Natal MK Regional Technical Committee included…

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