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1913-1967

Louis Washkansky

… Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to … Africa and Italy. His wife Ann, he met and married after the war. He was keen on soccer, swimming…

B-0008335

1945-2008

Phumzile John Gomomo

… on a farm in Adelaide on 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and Nonga Stofile (Mpondo). He … a number of…

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1920

Lorna Peirson

… She was born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a … taught at schools in South Africa and from 1951-1952 at the…

B-0008873

1947

Ben Skosana

… Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further … St Francis Xavier University in…

B-0068484

1947

Ben M. Skosana

… Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further … St Francis Xavier University in…

B-0009077

1950

Peter Hain

… family emigrated to Britain where he earned degrees from the universities of London and Sussex.He joined the Britain Liberal Party's youth wing and also the…

B-0095199

1976

Edward Mzolo

… Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. No details are available on the date…

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1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

… chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . He was born in Natal in … chairman in Alexandra…

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Trineke Weijdema

… Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola . The whole of…

B-0009219

1947-2010

Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo

… moved to Johannesburg, where she made a recording under the name Victoria Mhlongo. Her 1963 version of My Boy Lollipop became a national hit and her career ……

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Nombuso Mchunu

… On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union , while she looked for permanent … to…

B-0067935

1925-1968

Patrick Mosell Molaoa

… and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one of the first activists of the African National Congress (ANC) to die as a guerrilla …

B-0008617

1882-1960

Mary Fitzgerald

… Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to Johannesburg as a … for…

B-0008072

1927

Joseph Morolong

… Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade…

B-0008649

1912-1964

Daniel R Koza

… Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed  Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

… was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic Julian in Paris. During his periods in…

B-0008026

James J. Majoro

… and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial…

B-0008389

1907-1946

Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp

… was born in Carolina, Mpumalanga, 1907. She was a daughter of Bertha Everard, had a brief career cut short by her death … in avantgarde circles in Paris. Her…

B-0008053

1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at Collies School in Tugela near Pomeroy in the…

B-0008096

1923-1966

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

… Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief.  He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955-1956 … treason…

B-0007799

1886-1964

Dorothy Moss Kay

… County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 … also joined SASA in early 1919,…

B-0008235

1853-1915

Heinrich Egersdorfer

… Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he had worked at his trade in England. In 1884 he founded The…

B-0008043

1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… came to SA in 1889 to help a widowed sister stranded on the Kimberley diggings. He never returned to England. … in 1888. Between 1877 and 1888 he showed…

B-0009234

Dilizantaba Mji

… Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he…

B-0067953

1932-2008

Jeremiah Baden Leeuw

… Jeremiah Baden Leeuw was born in 1932. Originally a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), Leeuw was one of the group of Africanists…

B-0008308

1882-1962

Florence Louise Zerffi

… to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A friend of Nita Spilhaus ,  she joined SASA and was…

B-0009256

1910-1977

Max Gordon

… early death.In 1932 he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cape Town ,where he fell in with swtudent radicals who … soon moved to Johannesburg…

B-0095012

1819-1901

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

… was born in September 17, 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries…

B-0008916

Cecil Sols

… Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities…

B-0122503

1935

Anderson Khumani Ganyile

… in 1959.  Ganyile’s interest in politics was sparked by the African National Congress  (ANC) 1952 Defiance Campaign . In 1959,as a first year student at the…

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