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1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary … Member of the ANC,…

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1933

Allister Sparks

… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … at Queen’s College in Queenstown and…

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1928-2011

Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi

… 1947.  He then went on to Fort Hare College in the Eastern Cape, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1950 and a teacher’s diploma 1951…

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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, …

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James Ford

… was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever showing with…

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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 … United Nations. (1999). New…

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1933-1986

Samora Machel

… Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. Machel ……

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1870-1946

Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo

… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s…

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Veerammal Naidoo

… Veerammal Naidoo, wife of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political…

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1926-2009

Gerrit Viljoen

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated ……

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1926

Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated … Former…

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1795-1836

King Sobhuza I

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in … in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the…

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

… Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of  John Tengo Jabavu . After studying at Lovedale, he taught … which he edited until…

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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman studied Architecture at the University of…

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1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… was also born. Mafela’s family moved to Kliptown, south of Johannesburg in 1947. The family remained in Kliptown for five years. In 1952 they … a temporary…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… Roza van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, … pupil of composition and theory…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… after secondary school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him from … African poet: a…

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1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… African National Congress  organiser in the Western Cape. Ngotyana was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came…

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following ……

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1924-1993

Cornelius Judah Fazzie

… grew up largely in Tsolo.His migrant father worked in the Western Cape.He began school at age 15,eventually … at Welsh High School in East London where he…

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1957

Cedric Nunn

… Natal (KwaZulu-Natal)  on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and … Sugar Mill from 1974 until 1981. Nunn…

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1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she …

B-0008300

1940-2006

Louis Problem Mkhize

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … SADET, (2001), Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize from The Road to…

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1956

Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini

… Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then … as a child and as a result spent close…

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started … his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady Selbourne…

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Douglas G. Wolton

… Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the  Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to … and immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the CPSA in…

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1965

Phila Portia Ndwandwe

… Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami…

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1980

Lindiwe Mazibuko

… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her … DSG in Kloof in 1997. She…

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1886-1946

Franciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt

… 1886**1874 in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a famous sculptor Jan Frans de Vriendt and his wife, … recognition in Europe as a sculptor…

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1924

Ben Baartman

… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines…

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