Oliver Mtukudzi

Oliver Mtukudzi, also known as ‘Tuku’, was born on 22 September, 1952 in Highfield, Zimbabwe. He was the first born in a family of seven siblings. Mtukudzi was from a musical family, as both his parents were singers. This meant he grew up in a musical environment where he started to develop the love of music. He had to grow up at an early age because of the passing of his father. 
 

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

Hassim Seedat, was born in Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1930. His family came to Newcastle as traders in the late 1880s. He attended St Oswalds High School in Newcastle and Sastri College, Durban where he matriculated in 1947.

Herbert Mabuza

Herbert Mabuza was an outstanding photographer, who was promoted to the position of managing editor at the Sunday Times and later to the same position at the Sowetan and Sunday World.

Mabuza was for a very short period a member of the photographic collective Afrapix.

After leaving journalism in 2015, he became an emerging cattle farmer.

Herbert Mabuza passed away on 2 June 2019 in Johannesburg, Gauteng.

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export business. The family was forced to relocate to Bloemhof, a nearby town, following the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mosie did his primary schooling in Bloemhof. Since there were no high schools catering for blacks, Mosie was forced to move to Johannesburg in 1949 to pursue his secondary education. 

Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya

Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe,the son of a polygamous Venda-speaking peasant farmer near Thohoyandou in the northern Transvaal,Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931, eventually establishing himself as a peddler.

Buzwe Stanley Mabizela

 Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in  Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League. A son to a farm worker, Mabizela did his primary education in Port Elizabeth where he also became politicised. After passed Standard 6, he was sent by his father to Mariazel in the Transkei, near the border of Lesotho where he did form one and form two in one year. After completing form two, the priests at Mariazel expelled him when they discovered that he was an active ANC person.

Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza

Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza was born in 1918 near Alice in the Ciskie,where his father was tribal  headman.After completing secondary education, he went to Cape Town as a migrant in the 1940s, working at the Groote Schuur Hospital and later at a bakery where he became an organizer foir the African Food and Canning Workers' Union.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist Party (CP),and in 1955 participated in a

Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida

Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923,he was  one of seven children in a rural family that was later forced off the land.Mabhida could not pursue his studies because of the financial constraints experienced by his family. His formal education was perpetually interrupted and ended when he finished the ninth grade in 1942.

Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty

Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and Vellimah Chetty, whose parents had been brought to Natal as indentured labourers. He attended Woodlands High where he was labelled an ‘agitator’ by the principal.

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