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1867-1944

Frans David Oerder

… Frans David Oerder …

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… established artists like Anton van Wouw, Hugo Naude, Frans Oerder, and also the Irish artist George Smithard who played …

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1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in…

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1913-1998

Father Trevor Huddleston

Father Trevor Huddleston was born on 15 June 1913 in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England to Ernest Huddleston and his wife. Soon after, the family moved to Golders…

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1919

Olive Peace Landman

Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika…

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Mme Makwena Matlala

The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal (now Polokwane,…

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1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon…

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1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

Joyce Piliso-Seroke was born in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 11 July 1933. She completed her matric at Kilnerton High School in…

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1945

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil.President Lula had little…

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1951

Patricia Horn

Pat Horn initially got exposed to politics in the early 1970s through her involvement with adult literacy projects during her days as a university student. In…

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Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli

Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli, originally a resident in the Witzieshoek Native Reserve, Harrismith District, Orange Free State [now Free State Province], was issued…

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1928-1993

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick…

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1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started working at his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

Zwelakhe Sisulu was born in Soweto on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu. He was the third of five children. When he…

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

Jean Sinclair was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion protested against the National Party’s segregationist bills. She…

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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him Looksmart because when he…

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Potlako Leballo

He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and…

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Acting Chief Moepadira Mphahlele

Moepadira Mphahlele was the Acting Chief of the Mphahlele community in the Northern Transvaal. He was banished from Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal …

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1936

Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker

Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was…

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Ras Thomas Mokoka

Ras Thomas Mokoka, originally resident at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, [Western] Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 19…

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Molomo Ntwampe

Molomo Ntwampe, Ramonkung Mpihleng and Setswiki Matabata from Sekhukhuneland, Lydenburg District, [Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo Province], were allegedly…

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David Thlolanyane Mabe

David Thlolanyane Mabe, originally resident at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Western Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 26…

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1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising…

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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).  He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand…

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1847-1929

Millicent Fawcett

Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain during the Anglo Boer War in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration…

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Phikinkani Zulu

There was conflict in the Tokazi location in the Usutu Area, Nongoma District, Natal [now Kwazulu-Natal], around Bantu Affairs (BA), betterment and the role…

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…

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