Notable Leaders' Biographies Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Prof Chabani Manganyi, JET’s first CEO

Motsumi Makhene — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:15:46 +0000

As the first Executive Director of the Joint Education Trust, along side Nick Taylor, Prof. Manganyi became the champion benefactor to support the establishment of the Funda Community College, as we imagine it today, in 1994. As a close associate of Prof. Eskia Mphahlele he contributed towards 1. The building of the new Central Administration [...]

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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:43:48 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his father was a builder belonging to the Christian faith, while his mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced [...]

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Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:01:29 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 – 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Es’kia [Ezekiel] Mphahlele, doyen of African letters, passed away in Lebowakgomo, Limpopo, on the evening of 27th October, 2008 at the ripe age of eighty-eight. Mphahlele was the illustrious author [...]

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7 Great African Military Leaders Who Repelled European and Arab Oppression

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:06:28 +0000

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com African military history is considered one of the oldest in the world. These militaries were led by some of the greatest leaders in time. Here’s a look at seven of the most extraordinary commanders in history: Hannibal Barca Born in 247 B.C., while there is no picture of Hannibal in existence, the coin [...]

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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Of Liberia

Khaya Sibeko — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:30:19 +0000

From: africanhistory.about.com/ Date of birth: 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendents of original colonists of Liberia (ex-African slaves from America, who promptly on arrival set about enslaving the indigenous people using the social system of their old American masters as a basis for [...]

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