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Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, Kent, England, August 8, 1883) was a missionary and a linguist, who worked in Botswana for...
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Mlanjeni (literally “River Man”) (circa 1830-August 28, 1853) was a Ciskei prophet of the Rarabe Xhosa. He played a key role in the frontier war...
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Vuyusile Mini (1920-1964) achieved prominence as a trade union organiser and political activist in African nationalist causes. Born in Port Elizabeth, he acquired very little...
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Alfred Milner [subsequently First Viscount] (March 23, 1854-May 13, 1925), was one of the leading British colonial statesmen and administrators and architect of a unified...
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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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Alan Stewart Paton (January 11, 1903-April 1988) was a prominent South African novelist, a spokesperson for prison reform, and a founding member of the Liberal...
