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1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.  André…

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… they met once again and as friends became interested in the nationalist movement in India . They met Gandhi in 1925 and also organised a big reception for…

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1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

… education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township, south of Johannesburg. Other academic qualifications include a … from Damelin, a Certificate in Defence…

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John Gomas

… in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the  Communist…

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1939

Chief Malebogo

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the Blouberg, ……

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1949-2004

Matome Maponya

… Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an …

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1957

Anna Zieminski

… 1957. She schooled at St Mary's Dominican Convent and the University of Cape Town. In 1983 and 1984 she attended part-time courses in photography at the Ruth…

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1983

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

… High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg , where he obtained a … Master’s degree with…

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1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first democratic elections. Kumalo was the second…

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1941

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

… born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg . She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. … was raised in a politically…

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1903-1960

Ida Fiyo Mntwana

… Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the  African National Congress Women’s League  and a leader … First president…

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1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … politics for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning…

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1956

Richard Steele

… Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very conservative … Objector, Pacifist,…

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1841-1948

M. N. Bhola

… M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province . She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) …

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1920-1977

Elmon Malele

… Elmon Malele was born in Mapulaneng in the Limpopo Province (Transvaal) in 1920. Malele came to … in 1943, and stayed in Alexandra township. He was one of…

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1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo … his family was evicted…

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1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when … This resulted in her growing up at a…

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J. Congress M. Mbata

… at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1940 he joined the faculty of St. …

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1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

… was born in Pietermaritzburg on 18 February 1959.He is the eldest of four children of Alex and Jenny Boraine.His father was the President of the Methodist…

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1900-1963

Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe

… Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his …

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various … court interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one…

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1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively involved in local … associations. Her…

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1944

Subbiah Moodley

… Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the … University Of Durban‑Westville, Documentation…

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1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic priesthood before…

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1936-2015

Letsau Nelson Diale

… January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane … in search of employment. Immediately…

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1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and … But what they…

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… Nomkhosi  Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions … African National Congress (ANC) member to be…

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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be…

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1905-1962

Goolam H. Gool

… born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to … Yusuf started out as a hawker…

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… was also born.  He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the Western Province. Marks attended the local school where he completed Standard Five,moved to ……

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