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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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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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1800

Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther

… Born about 1800, in Zomba, Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The …

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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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1941-2007

Hilary Mutch

… family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor at the time. Later in 1943 the family moved back to South Africa. Claire went to … before proceeding…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of…

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1910-1969

Florence Matomela

… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising … in Port Elizabeth , she led a demonstration that ended in the…

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1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. … As a young girl, Asa (as she was…

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1926-2017

Helen Kies

… where she matriculated. She then enrolled at University of Cape Town where studied where she completed her B.A. in … began her teaching career at Athlone…

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A. J. Sililo

… A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in  Durban , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives' ……

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1955

Eric Miller

… Eric Miller  was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After … a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered the…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… High School (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University,…

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

… Congress  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now  Kwazulu-Natal ), South … nurse at Victoria Hospital in Lovedale, Eastern Cape …

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1938-2016

Judith Mason

… Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She matriculated from the Pretoria High School for…

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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, further … disputes with their…

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…

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1955

William Kentridge

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and … he attained a degree in Politics and…

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a…

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1846-1921

James Smith Morland

… died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804). He came to SA with … him…

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1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…

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1974-2016

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

… not known publicly about Fezekile Kuzwayo. Unfortunately, the event that she is best known for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the…

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1932

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

… Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern … political study groups run mainly by students from…

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February …

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1904

Simon Tyeku

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…

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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… . Vilakazi was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the…

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… plant, where he became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council…

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Violet Weinberg

… Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg,  South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… various jobs since completing school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a … amongst other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught…

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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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