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Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High school up to what was standard 8 in those days. Read More:
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Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province (now Kwazulu-Natal). Read More:
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Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape. She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker. Read More:
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A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. Read More:
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Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. Read More:
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This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). Read More:
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Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape. Read More:
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Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape), as the third of six children. Read More:
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Peter Magubane was born on January 18, 1932 in Vrededorp (now Pageview) Johannesburg and his one of South Africa’s most distinguished award winning photo-journalists. Read More:
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Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. Read More:
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Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. Read More:
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Today in history. Today in history | 15 September 1835. Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands. Read More: 15 September 1910. General Louis Botha wins elections. Read More:
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Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. Read More:
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22 June 1946 —The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second part of the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Read More:
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Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. Read More:
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