When I got arrested it was through Winnie. I got arrested in Winnie’s car, and when I got to the island I talked to him about Winnie, very strongly, to say that I didn’t think that she had done the right thing by me, that she exposed me to the police, and by associating with someone whom she ought to have known was an informer, because that’s how I got arrested.[1]
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Cloete Breytenbach
Born:
1933
in Bonnievale, Cape Winelands
Died:
May 31, 2019
in Mediclinic Panorama - Cape Town
(Internal bleeding due to quadruple heart bypass operation )
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a young man he was supposed to become a teacher but admitted that he would have “killed those kids”. As an 18-year-old, he went to the offices of Die Burger where he was handed a camera and told that he could start as a photographer in 1951.
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the Eastern Cape.
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Nomhle Nkonyeni
Born:
April 9, 1942
in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Died:
July 10, 2019
Nomhle Nkonyeni was born on 9 April 1942 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. She started her acting career at the age of 19 years. In 2002, she received her Master’s degree in Theatre for Development in the United Kingdom from the King Alfred College.
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Jon Lynton David Hrusa
Born:
October 24, 1965
in Cape Town
Died:
December 19, 2011
in Warden, Free State
Jon Lynton David Hrusa was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to study at Wits University. His plan to study medicine was short-lived as he only spent six months at Wits before dropping out.
This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I grew up. Unusually, it was a freehold area in which Africans could own land, and my parents owned two properties there.
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Bongani Mnguni
Born:
November 18, 1953
in Soweto
Died:
April 14, 2019
in Roodepoort, West Rand
(Heart Attack)
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system.
Mnguni was born in Soweto on the 18th of November in 1953. He attended and matriculated at Orlando High School in Soweto. His interest in photography began in the early 1960's.
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian shopkeeper and a young African man sparked days of tremendous brutality across Durban.
The National Party government had been elected less than a year before and had not yet had the opportunity to implement its plans to segregate the city. Blacks and Indians lived cheek by jowl in and around the docks and city centre, in hostels and the tightly packed lanes of shops, mosques and markets. They shared the streets, more or less peacefully.
Johnny Clegg Image Source
Additional Date: July 16, 2019
On 16 July 2019, Jonny Clegg died at the age 66 years at his home in Johannesburg, Gauteng after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015. He is known as a songwriter, a dancer and an anthropologist. Clegg‘s music touched so many souls with its vibrant blend of Western pop and African Zulu rhythms. Clegg’s unique music style had an impact by embracing different cultures and enhanced the social cohesion of young South Africans.
During his music career, he produced so many hits including Impi, Great Heart and African Sky Blue. In addition, he received a number of awards including being called a ‘Knight of Arts and Letters’ by the French Government in 1991. Clegg was nominated as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). This veteran was also honoured with various doctorates including the Order of Ikhamanga. Jonny Clegg is survived by his wife Jenny and their two sons Jesse and Jaron.
San Bushman rock painting in the Drakensberg
San Bushman rock painting in the Drakensberg