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1932-2012

Sister Bernard Ncube

… she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered the Companions Catholic Order, thereafter teaching until 1960. During the 1970s and the 1980s,…

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1803-1894

Rev. Aldin Grout

… was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to study in theology…

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1933-2009

Anton Ndoda Xaba

… in Sobantu Village in Pietermaritzburg.  He left school in the late 1940s and went to work in Durban.  He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1953…

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1942-2020

George Hallett

… His early inspiration to become a photographer came from the movies he saw at the Friday night film show at the primary school in the fishing village of Hout…

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1936-2008

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

… Primary School in 1946 and matriculated in 1954 from the Saint Peters Secondary School at Rosettenville in … Johannesburg. In 1955 he went to Fort Hare…

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1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… Bloemhof and proceeded to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’ Degree in … in Holland and obtained…

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1964

Joseph Manana

… KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an award from the Tito Zungu…

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1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… and three sisters. Along with her siblings, she attended the Tamil school Sathia Gnama Sabbai before attending  English school . At the young age of 11, she…

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade … in the early 1940s…

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1917-2004

Villa Baker

… Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . … political activist, shop steward for the…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… up politics. When she was about 13, she became active in the underground Latvian Communist Party. She arrived in South … Cissie Gool and lifelong friend John…

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1959-2014

Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi

… 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu ( Western Cape ). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), was an …  [Accessed:…

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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. After studying …

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the…

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1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… family. [i]  From an early age Jana developed an awareness of the unequal society she was born into, stating in her book … injustices, whether these related…

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1934

Albert Nzula

… Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal … worked as a court interpreter, and served as secretary of the…

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1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he…

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1931-2000

Ismail Mahomed

… on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly staunch … parents. He had five siblings. After…

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1851-1897

Barney Barnato

… Barnato was born in 21 February 1851, Whitechapel slum of London. His original name was Barnett Issacs but changed … his brother Harry to Cape Town in 1873…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… tertiary education. Haffejee enrolled for inter-science at the Bhavan's College in Bombay and thereafter went Nagpur to … in hockey. Perhaps more importantly…

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1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near … worked in Johannesburg and they lived in…

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern … Pact?’…

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1910-1990

Gerard Bhengu

… Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, … Southern Natal. Bhengu received his…

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1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

… Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th  of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale Mission School, where he…

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1963-1976

Hector Pieterson

… Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a … ,[Accessed on: 08 April 2014]…

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1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… when she adopted a mute Black boy (6). She wanted to send the boy to the school for the deaf in Worcester . The police forced her … a complaint against a…

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1957

Michael Madimetja Teffo

… Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne . The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his … 2015]…

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1947-1985

Twasile Champion Galela

… to Rita Siyoni and had two sons and a daughter, one of his sons passed on in 1996. He worked as a salesperson for … he was working for Town Talk Furniture…

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Brigalia Bam

… Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei , in the Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa … worker with a post-graduate degree from the…

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