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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

… Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of…

B-0008688

1926

Kesval “Kay” Moonsamy

… “Kay” Moonsamy was born on 5 July 1926. He was active in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from the mid-1940s onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer…

B-0068092

1920

Jaydew Nasib Singh

… Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a…

B-0009066

1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in … matriculating in 1948.’ He pursed Medical…

B-0067993

1913-1970

Debi Singh

… a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo ……

B-0009064

1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree … was…

B-0008193

1920-1969

Eduardo Mondlane

… Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was also a History and Sociology Professor at … Professor at…

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1902-1972

Rosa Hope

… Rosa Hope's The Old Miii was shown on the SASA 35th Annual Exhibition in 1937, and acquired by the … Simmers (qv.), for its "extraordinarily strong sense of…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) became invovled in politics at the…

B-0080847

1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. At the time, Riverlea, Johannesburg, Transvaal …

B-0098414

1949

Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela

… Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus , after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape . She…

B-0007811

1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the Apartheid government; and it was situated on…

B-0094071

1962

Greg Marinovich

… The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a … church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest…

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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

… Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of  Springs ,  Gauteng  (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals in the area made…

B-0008790

1927-2007

Theo Mthembu

… on 27 February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal and later at the Adams College at…

B-0008699

1927

Sydney Brenner

… intelligent and learned to read at an early age. One of his father's customers convinced Mr. Brenner senior to allow Sydney to go to kindergarten at age 5…

B-0007885

1917

Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko

… Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in …

B-0068365

1859-1936

Meshach Pelem

… qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in the Cape for several years, he went to the  Griqualand West  diamond fields and in 1884-1885 … and…

B-0068303

1922-1993

Rahima Moosa

… Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand , Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended … Fatima became politically active after they became aware of the unjust…

B-0008641

1949-2015

Clive Edward Butler Rice

… from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University of Natal. Clive started playing cricket for the Transvaal Nuffield XI in 1967 and…

B-0008956

1922-1998

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji

… in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked … and later became a bookkeeper in a…

B-0008487

S. S. Tema

… Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the periphery of…

B-0068536

1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South…

B-0008904

1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in Germiston and Wolmaransstad. He was active in the African National…

B-0008255

1969

Vicky Sampson

… Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When … old, she moved to District 6 with…

B-0125504

1947-2008

Mike Terry

… Terry was an active member of the British  Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) , which was born in 1960 after the Sharpeville Massacre  and succeeded the Boycott…

B-0068549

1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo … as 'Victoria Cobela'.) Mangena received her schooling at the Inanda Seminary…

B-0008435

1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he … From Protest to…

B-0068312

1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and saddler, Ngcobo studied at Adams…

B-0008774

1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

… in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple … Sonderling, N.E. …

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