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1932-2005

Arthur Maimane

… in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was also known as the Black Eton of South Africa. Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and…

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1940

Ela Gandhi

… Ela Gandhi was born in 1940 in Phoenix Settlement  in the Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal . Indians, Coloured, … no tarred roads, public water supply and no…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… Wolton about 1925 and together they became prime movers in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she left South Africa…

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1966-1986

Andrew Sibusiso Zondo

… He developed an interest in politics at a young age and by the age of 16, became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and went into exile in … …

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1794-1879

Thomas Maclear

… He was a keen amateur astronomer and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of astronomers. Maclear arrived in South … 5 January 1834 to assume his duties as…

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1953

Fanie Jason

… Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black…

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… Africa in 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of English immigrants. Neither of Paton’s parents was highly … Scott, Charles Dickens…

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1912-1974

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

… with both their father and grandfather fighting in the Anglo Boer War , their mother being held in a concentration camp during the war and their father…

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political leaders, her father was the…

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1920-2017

Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)

… in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the tutelage of Reverend Selope Thema , a prominent African National … a nursing course in Johannesburg ,…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal … in World War Two, he studied…

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1954

Michael Barry

… Safmarine. In 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until … Badsha, O…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… Letty began her first work in the art field in 1925 when she began work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary laboratory. Here she had to record in detail the post…

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1924-1968

Canodoise (Can) Themba

… Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare, where he acquired a teaching diploma and a … other aspiring black journalists,…

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1939-2018

Hugh Masekela

… young age, and began to play piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man with a Horn, Masekela began to play the trumpet, encouraged by anti-apartheid…

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1923-2010

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani

… Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an … a finger. Hlungwani’s earliest…

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1948-2007

Bill Flynn

… actor, known for his roles in films like  Heel Against the Head  and  Running Riot . He was a great all-rounder, … roles. He won thirteen best-actor awards,…

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1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… Joosub was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his grandparents. He was … instrument was a flute…

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1818-1953

Emily Isabel Fern

… lived in Port Elizabeth where she had art tuition at the Technical College. Returning to Johannesburg, she was then taught pastel drawing by George Smithard…

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1926-1959

Lionel Forman

… Forman was a barrister and a journalist. He was author of the first book on the trial, 'You Can Hang For Treason'. Forman headed the … journalist, author,…

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T. J. Lemon

… High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an interest in photography … in 1984 whilst studying pharmacy…

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1955-2016

Emile Maurice

… Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, … of Art, University of Cape Town in 1977 and then went to the USA where…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on the south coast of Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. In early…

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1966

James Hamakwayo

… The early records that were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 …

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… engineering at Howard College in Natal before serving in the Royal Navy. After World War II he became a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail . After serving as…

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1923-1960

Howard S. Ngcobo

… was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He worked for a time…

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1930

Stella Madge Damos

… Born in 1930, Damos was a trade unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she organised a protest meeting and was charged…

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