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June Rose Nala

… Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… The Atteridgeville Super Stadium was renamed the Lucas 'Masterpieces' Moripe Stadium after the legendary … as it was an honour for Mope, and an…

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1970

Leleti Khumalo

… Khumalo was born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township , the North of Durban . Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became … when she appeared in…

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… Stein was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents … Town, in 1948. There he became an…

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1978

Sibusiso Robert Duma

… is a young artist who is presently making his mark within the Durban art scene. His talent was noticed and nourished by the late Trevor Makhoba (qv.) through…

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1910

Lawrence Nkosi

… 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took … •…

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1948

Conny Braam

… Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland (AABN). ……

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1987

Johnson Ngwevela

… Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the  African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…

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1922-1985

John Nyathi Pokela

… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to … years imprisonment in Robben Island for the activities of…

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1952

Ari Sitas

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor …

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

… African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in…

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1930-2008

Walter Sidney Felgate

… from Pretoria Boys High School in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in social anthropogy. Thereafter,…

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1939

Jonty Driver

…  His father spent time fighting in North Africa during the Second World War until he was captured in Toruk and … attended St. Andrews and spent his formative…

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1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate degree in law … Chair of the Independent…

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1888-1948

James M. Thaele

… was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until … in 1921. He returned to South Africa…

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Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

… Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s…

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1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South African Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi … World War II and, on returning home, became a…

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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine-handler in the mines in Johannesburg. His father died in 1949 after … on alternative days – one would go to…

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career. His father owned a … appreciate his son’s love for music and…

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1897-1976

Helen Elizabeth Martins

… Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and …

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1936-2010

Lewis Nkosi

… College in Durban. Nkosi began his writing career at the publication Ilanga lase Natal in Durban. In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of…

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1938

Noria Mabasa

… Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal … for only one year, having to walk three hours a…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to Swaziland … to live with family while his…

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1857-1919

William Philip Schreiner

… William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' including …

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1958-2004

Khotso Seatlholo

… He was a student at Naledi High School in Soweto when the 1976 Student riots ensued. Seatlholo, together with Tsietsi Mashinini , was part of the Soweto…

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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… born on 15 February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his … Chinese heritage. Rangel…

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Thys Dullaart

… in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a fine arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National … in Photography at Pretoria Technikon. He…

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David Perumal

… educated up to standard six (grade eight) and had joined the Natal Indian Youth Congress (NIYC) at the age of 17. He had joined the NIYC, he said, because …

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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… (then Pietersburg). Her father had been ostracized by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to have his twin children put to death, as the…

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