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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… level was only realised in 1998, some years after her death. By all accounts never more than a competent performer, …

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Lot Kgagudi Maredi

… Transvaal [now Lydenburg, Mpumalanga]in November 1957. His banishment was justified by the state on the grounds that … ground in the location. As the new…

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Winston Field

… in office from 17 December 1962 to 13 April 1964. During his time in office, Britain had maintained that it would not … had tricked him over promises of…

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Boas Moiloa

… I will not become chief unless the Kgotla acclaims me.’ His banishment order noted that he was arrested during April … there was ‘peace and good cooperation’…

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1953

Sandile Ngcobo

… labour disputes; and the eviction of black squatters. His Supreme Court experience involved preparing pleadings and … to South Africa and practised as an…

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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina Strydom.  Johanna Scheepers was … 1949. Scheepers also was stepmother to…

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1937

Abraham H. de Vries

… titled, “Die Vaderland.” On numerous occasions during his career, Abraham H. de Vries would tour abroad and lecture … Port Elizabeth, Rhodes, as well as,…

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1904-1980

S .G. Sekano Ntoane

… minister of the Berlin Lutheran Church near Pretoria, and his wife, Hanna. Ntoane received his primary education at Hebron near Pretoria and qualified ……

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John Smith Moffat

… in 1858 and also married Emily Unwin the same year. His father settled him at Inyati in 1859, where he lived for … Matabeleland in 1859. In 1865 he took over…

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Paul Ramadiba Mokgathle

… West Province]came into conflict with Chief Lencoe around his ascension to chieftainship, which was rejected by Mokgathle and his followers.  Mokgathle was…

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1952-1981

Krishna Rabilal

… the hope he could make an impact on the community through his socio-welfare and community work. He was a member of the … Robben Island prisoner, at Day-Glo…

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1937-2010

Tholakele Madala

… Association (BLA) gave him an award in recognition of his human rights work. Described by a former colleague, … good, decent, modest and honourable man",…

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Elliot Mngadi

… of their own. Subsequently, Mngadi resigned from his job at the NAD and began working fulltime as an organizer … member of the executive council of the ANC…

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1921-2004

Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane

… a student strike. The son of two teachers, who also farmed.his parents could not afford to send him to university after he finished school delayed his…

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1810-1872

Charles Du Val

… Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and long-time associate, Arthur Fry, …

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1949

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi

… at Rorke's Drift. From 1977 to 1980 he worked full-time at his art at Mariannhill. From 1980 to 1981, he taught art at …

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1918-1982

Bartholomew Hlapane

… those of ffrench-Beytagh and Harry Gwala.He and his wife were assassinated by ANC gunman in their Soweto home …

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1924-1999

Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti

… district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to look for work, and the … carry a pass. For Kondoti the turning…

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Victor Nkosi

… Nkosi, Victor Nkosi’s father, was accused of encouraging his followers to “squat” on South African Development Trust land adjoining his area in Matsulu,…

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1966-2019

Sandile Dikeni

… in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He became sought after for his performances and rose to…

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1933-1980

Tennyson Xola Makiwane

… 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised during his…

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1958-2020

Harry Garuba

… [2] He continued with a master’s degree and finished his PhD in 1988 at the same university. [3] During his studies, in 1981 he was appointed to lecture at…

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1899-1983

Ernst Heinrich Daniël Arndt

… was born in Bloemfontein on 27 May 1899. He started his education at the Infants’ School and the Normal … to Grey College, where he matriculated.  Following…

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1944

Khaya Biko

… active as both an athlete and a student activist. In 1963 his younger brother Steve joined him at the school. That … to two years, with fifteen months…

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Jackson (Balisile)) Nkosiyane

… Paramount Chief (PC) Dalindyebo’s ‘misconception of his position and powers.’ It was alleged that he was … chief.’ However, the PC was being misled by …

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Vusumuzi Vitus Mvelase

… weekends. In April ’73 he was convicted of contravening his banning order and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment, … defulted by taking up a job in Pinetown,…

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1940

Pieter Streicher Steyn

… holds the distinction of having a toxigenic fungus bear his name, Aspergillus steynii .   He was honoured for his work on the ochratoxins, a group of fungal…

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1940-2023

Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad

… (TIC) and later in the African National Congress (ANC). His father, Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad,  was active in the … non-racial, non-sexist and united South…

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William Mini

… trial. He had a magnificent bass voice, and \'in the Fort his voice rolled above the combined effort of all the others, … for breaking railway apartheid…

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