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The Koks were a leading Griqua family, of mixed European and Khoisan descent, who flourished, especially near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers,...
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Sarah Gertrude Millin (March 1889-July 6, 1968) left Lithuania for South Africa at the age of five months during a time of Jewish emigration as...
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George Nazar Khambule (1884-January 9, 1949) a Zulu Messiah founded a unique religious community whose ethos and structure differed from that of any other independent...
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (August 13, 1886-October 4, 1957), famous South African painter, was born in Pretoria and spent most of his life there. Pierneef’s father...
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Francois Stephanus Malan (March 12, 1871-December 31, 1941), was a leading figure in South African social and political life throughout a long career as a...
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Daniel Francois Malan (May 22, 1874- February 7, 1959), statesman, clergyman, and journalist, formed South Africa’s first Afrikaner government, of which he was prime minister...
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Tshekedi Khama (September 17, 1905-June 10, 1959), a man bound by tribal tradition was nevertheless a great nationalist who worked tirelessly to advance the people...
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Cyril Bunting Rogers-Wright (1905-1971) was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, and from the 1950s played a leading part in...
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Zachary Rogers (16?-1681), an Englishman in the service of the Gambia Adventurers Company, founded a family line that has been prominent in the Sierra Leone...
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William Raymond (1815-November 26, 1847) was the fearless American missionary who first brought western education and the Christian religion to the Sherbro people of Sierra...
