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1915

Gopallal Hurbans

… 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and was chairman of the Natal…

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1894-1974

William George Ballinger

… William George Ballinger was born on 21st of September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British Independent Labour Party as an…

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1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

… in Leicester, England, 1878. Stained glass was integral to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art and design, which aimed at giving a…

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1969

Kim Ludbrook

… in 1990 and studied photojournalism from 1993-1994 at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, England, finishing with a postgraduate at the University of Wales…

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1913

John Watt (Jack) Grossert

… 1913 in Tweedie, KZN. He was a painter and graphic artist of landscapes, portraits and still life. He worked in oil, … (FA) at Natal University College; and…

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended … interpreter while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing … Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook…

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1945

Achmad Cassiem

… Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist…

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Paul Landau

… Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today" … Professor Landau is an historian of…

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1947-2006

Eric Molobi

… 5, 1947. Molobi was imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of South Africa…

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1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

… Mandla Nkosi was born on 13 June 1962 in Pimville, Soweto, the third child of Joyce Nkosi. In 1981 he completed Standard Nine at the Sekano Ntoane School in…

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1899-1980

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

… Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended … P. (2006) 156…

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1909-1969

Dr. Philip Blaaiberg

… Born in Uniondale in the Cape, Blaaiberg spent his youth in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending … Dentist, Heart…

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1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended … she became politically active as a teenager on noticing the impact the…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… students but before his final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational methods that black students…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… which brought her into contact with people involved in the political struggle. In 1961, dos Santos participated, … graffiti writing and so on, calling for…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother.  When she was three years old, the family…

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1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub…

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1953

Vukile Ntuli

… Ntuli was born in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his primary school education at the Ndaleni Practising School, Richmond, at the Ndaleni…

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1911

Sam Kahn

… Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South…

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1940

Gille De Vlieg

… Plymouth , England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in a later bombing raid, … South Africa in February 1944. Her…

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

… in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing…

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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16…

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Josias Madzunya

… Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda …

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… after his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. …  …

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… Girls High School. Jo then left home to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she … in London. In 1959 she was appointed…

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After … In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the  Bantu…

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1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  He attended part-time art classes at the Natal School of Art, Durban, and he decided…

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade unionist and educator is … and Indian trade unionist. He is considered one of…

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1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many explosions carried out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto,…

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