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1952

Molefi Nathanael Oliphant

… born on 6 March 1952 in Kroonstad, Free State. He started his career as a teacher in 1975 at Lekoa Shandu High School … decided not to stand for re-election…

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1939-2023

Essop Goolam Pahad

… Province).  He grew up in a family of political activists. His father Goolam Hoosain Ismael Pahad was a leading member … Witwatersrand and the University of…

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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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Frans Ramaro

… Frans Ramaro and his cousin Morris Ranoto were banished on19 January 1955 from … He was put on a train and it was only after a year that his partner heard…

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1971

Piet Mokoena

… [Northern Cape], [now Mahikeng, North West Province]. His banishment followed ‘the announced visit by the police, … a chair, and a goatskin on the floor. He…

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1939

Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa

… in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton, Lydenburg and he … where he completed an MA in philosophy and…

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Jabulani Sikhakhane

… years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on financial and political reporting. He has worked for both the public and…

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1954

Reggie Williams

… born on 19 September 1954 in Flint, Michigan (USA). During his childhood, he was exposed to the inequalities that took … and he was part of civil rights…

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1959

Phathekile Holomisa

… time, to get advice on whether or not he should take up his birth right to the chieftaincy of AmaHegebe in Mqanduli, … in the regions formerly known as the…

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1940-2020

Paul David

… (now KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) into a devout Catholic family.  His grandparents came from a little village in Tamil Nadu, … Coast. He became politically aware at…

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David Rabkin

… was born in South Africa, but emigrated to Britain with his family. He holds a PhD in African Literature and had been … a sub-editor at the  Cape Argus …

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Caswell Moloi

… He apparently ‘gave a solemn undertaking that on his release from goal he would remove himself voluntarily … conditions in the Reserve were ‘still far from…

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Ntlabati Jojo

… Ntlabati Jojo had been deposed of his status as headman in the late 1920s though by the 1940s, … The Native Affairs Department accused Jojo of displacing his…

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Martinus Boshomane

… 19 January 1955. He professed to be extremely puzzled by his banishment and could not establish the reasons, as he was … fled to Johannesburg. Leburu…

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Sekgopela Mashile

… Sekgopela Mashile supported his older brother’s, Matsiketsane Mashile, recognition as a … 27 June 1963.  He was allowed to return home in 1974 and his…

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1935-1975

Edson Sithole

… an anti-colonial nationalist. He “disappeared” alongside his secretary, Miriam Mhlanga, in downtown Salisbury … behind multiple Zimbabwean liberation…

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Professor Brij Maharaj

… south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN).  His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a shop assistant at a grocery … Grey Street (now Dr Yusuf Dadoo)…

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John Jacques William Aitchison

… (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his grandparents as his mother passed away a few days after he was born. … where he attended the…

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1948-2019

Stephen Joel Chifunyise

… when Zimbabwe gained independence, Chifunyise returned to his country of birth, where he began working as Program … recognition of the arts in post…

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1923-2004

Anthony Richard Stubbs

… Federal Theological Seminary. There he and his fellow teachers welcomed and nurtured debate among not … expectancy, a more than physical vitality and power…

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1818-1953

Emily Isabel Fern

… to Paris, where she studied in the studio of Andre Lhote. His figurative variant of Cubism impacted on her painting …

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1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… on 10 March 1926 in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at …

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… moved to smash the underground ARM. While maintaining his Liberal Party connection, he had joined ARM, but he was …

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1982

Petrus Nzima Nyawose

… a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the Black Allied Workers … committee that managed the Durban BAWU…

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Alexander Kgobe

… National Congress (ANC), and despite warnings continued his activities.  The NC [Native Commissioner] of Pietersburg … However, he returned in early 1959 and…

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1953

Mashudu Jonathan Mudau

… at Mbaleni, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He started his schooling at Makwarela Primary and passed standard 6 … in 1976. He then went to Makarela…

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1938

Dan Sleigh

… both ship captains. Sleigh would follow a similar path to his grandfathers, when he enrolled in the South African Navy … from Vredenburg High School, Western…

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