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Ibrahim Bash Taqi (September 18, 1931-July 1975) was a journalist and politician. His forceful journalism, particularly as a columnist for We Yone, an organ of...
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Khama III (Khama the Good, also Khama the Great) (c1837-February 21, 1923) was chief of the Bamangwato and eldest of the 16 sons of Sekgoma...
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Longangi (circa 1860-July 14, 1964) was a forceful and ambitious individual elevated by the colonial government to serve as chief over the politically decentralised Lega...
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Montshiwa (circa 1814-October 19, 1896) became the chief of the BaRolong Boo Ratshidi, a southern Tswana chiefdom, in 1849 and led his people through nearly...
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Kgari (?-c1826), son of Chief Kgama I, assumed the chieftainship over the Ngwato (Bomangwato) of what is now Botswana in about 1817. This was during...
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Sir John Charles Molteno (June 5, 1814- September 1, 1886), a pioneer wool farmer and the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, was born...
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John Daniel Kestell (February 15, 1854-Febru-ary 9, 1941) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (D.R.C.), Bible translator, and Afrikaner cultural leader. His mother...
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Donald Molteno (February 13, 1908-December 24, 1972) was born into a family with deep political traditions and roots in the liberal history of the Cape...
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Lillith Kakaza (circa 1885-1950) was the first Xhosa woman writer. She, with other authors, helped to develop Xhosa fiction in the second decade of the...
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Kajee Abdulla Ismail, (1896-1947) an able and energetic Moslem businessman and philanthropist known for his gradualist and accommodationist policy, dominated the Natal Indian Congress from...