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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments…

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1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… diploma. He taught at Mthethomusha High before joining the Department of Education in Pietermaritzburg. Mkhize was a member of the  African National Congress…

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… producing plays using black and white actors and by the 1950’s, he had become a well known figure particularly in Johannesburg where he lived. Amongst his…

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1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

… Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA … From Protest to…

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1928-2007

Lawrence Folley

… Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir.  Lawrence was soon given the opportunity of performing some of the…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She returned to South Africa the…

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1958

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe

… been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 21 years. Gcina Mhlophe has written many children's … stories and plays. Her writings are…

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1930-2014

Nelson “Nana” Mahomo

… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High … From Protest to challenge…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… Town on 30 April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney from the east end of London, was the breadwinner at home. She worked as an usherette at the …

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Zulumathabo Zulu

… Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The…

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1942-2024

Edward “Eddie” Webster

… and Economics from Oxford University, and a Bachelor of Philosophy from York University. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made …

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…

B-0008937

1955

Gana Makabeni

… Gana Makabeni  was born in the Transkei.  He attended a Communist night school and joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in…

B-0008391

1922-2004

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

… Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…

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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

1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s,…

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1888-1942

Ruth Alexander

… Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was … eventually in June 1907 they married in New York, where the…

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

… in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the early…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree … obtained his PHD from…

B-0093742

1958

Jackson Mthembu

… reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal, where he went with his grandmother Sarah Mthembu to work in the mealie fields,…

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unknown-2011

Rev George Wauchope

… Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student  Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the…

B-0065257

1909-2005

Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier

… Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art … personalities…

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1987

Mads Nørgaard

… developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work is, by and large, a body of social documentation. The…

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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League. A son to a farm worker,…

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1827-1903

Janet Burnside Soga

… born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots census indicates that the…

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Abner S. Mtimkulu

… was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu Methodist Church, of…

B-0068152

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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1950

Peter Jones

… Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape . Jones after … High School in 1976, he became politically active  at…

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1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… was born on 22 August 1924 in Omangundu near Ondangwa in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. He attended the Ongwediva Industrial School and qualified…

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