Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009092 | biography | Tiyo Soga | 1829-1871 | – |
| B-0009091 | biography | Janet Burnside Soga | 1827-1903 | ✓ |
| B-0009068 | biography | Penny Siopis | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0009024 | biography | George Sewpersadh | 1936 | – |
| B-0009017 | biography | Pixley ka Isaka Seme | 1881-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0009013 | biography | Jan Gerard Sekoto | 1913-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008981 | biography | Anthony Sampson | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008977 | biography | Mujahid Safodien | 1972 | – |
| B-0008974 | biography | Heidi Saayman | 1970 | – |
| B-0008959 | biography | Richard Rive | 1931-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0008948 | biography | Robert M. Resha | 1920-1973 | ✓ |
| B-0008909 | biography | Victor Poto | 1897-1974 | – |
| B-0008903 | biography | Henry Solomon Leon Polak | – | ✓ |
| B-0008886 | biography | Francois Pienaar | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008870 | biography | Malcolm Payne | 1946 | ✓ |
Tiyo Soga
Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the…
Janet Burnside Soga
Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland…
Penny Siopis
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she…
George Sewpersadh
George Sewpersadh was born in Cato Manor on 7 October 1936. His father was a newspaper vendor and his mother a housewife. His family was…
Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a…
Jan Gerard Sekoto
“Art is the spark, the illumination which is socially significant for it brings about understanding.” Jan Gerard Sekoto was born on 9…
Anthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in…
Mujahid Safodien
Mujahid was born on 17 of March 1972. He matriculated at the Alexandra Senior Secondary School and went on to do a Graphic design and Fine…
Heidi Saayman
Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving…
Richard Rive
Richard Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Cape Town, and grew up in District Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under…
Robert M. Resha
Robert M. Resha was born in Bolotwe,Queenstown, Eastern Province [Now Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal…
Victor Poto
Victor Poto was born in 1897 at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare),…
Henry Solomon Leon Polak
Francois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various…
Malcolm Payne
"First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I…