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Diamond Bozas
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Feb 17, 2011

Diamond Bozas

Artist and founder member of Zululand Society of Arts

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Jan Bouws
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Feb 17, 2011

Jan Bouws

Musician, composer, lecturer and author

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Andries Johannes Botha
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Feb 17, 2011

Andries Johannes Botha

Sculptor

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Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier
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Feb 17, 2011

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

Cartoonist

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Stephen William Black
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Feb 17, 2011

Stephen William Black

Novelist, prize-fighter, journalist, actor and South Africa’s first professional playwright.

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Gerard Bhengu
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Feb 17, 2011

Gerard Bhengu

Artist

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Clifford Bestall
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Feb 17, 2011

Clifford Bestall

Film maker

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Peter Becker
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Feb 17, 2011

Peter Becker

Author, ethnologist and advertising executive

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Vincent Baloyi
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Feb 17, 2011

Vincent Baloyi

Artist

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August Aime Balkema
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Feb 17, 2011

August Aime Balkema

Dutch typographer, calligrapher, author and book publisher

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John Thomas Baines
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Feb 17, 2011

John Thomas Baines

Marine and Portrait Painter

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Sir Herbert Baker
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Feb 17, 2011

Sir Herbert Baker

Architect

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Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold
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Feb 17, 2011

Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold

Artist

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Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams
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Feb 17, 2011

Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams

Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar, part-time professor of Hebrew at the University of Cape Town, chairman of t...

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Arthur Albert Hugh Adams
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Feb 17, 2011

Arthur Albert Hugh Adams

South African Expressionist painter“My work is based on my experience of South Africa as a 'vast and terrifying prison' ...

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