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Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS.
… Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS. …
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and … set in the over-exploited, scorched…
Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, is born in London, England.
… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 580 … Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and…
Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, England.
… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 580 … Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and…
Frans Oerder, SA landscape and still life painter, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
… Frans Oerder, SA landscape and still life painter, is born in Rotterdam, the …
Marthinus Johannes (Tinus) de Jong, SA landscape painter, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
… Marthinus Johannes (Tinus) de Jong, SA landscape painter, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. …
BiographyJames Smith Morland
… died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland … 1910. Morland is little known today…
Gregoire Boonzaier, SA landscape painter and son of caricaturist D.C. Boonzaier, is born in Cape Town. He died in 2005.
… Gregoire Boonzaier, SA landscape painter and son of caricaturist D.C. Boonzaier, is born in Cape Town. He died …
BiographyFlorence Louise Zerffi
… and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A friend of Nita Spilhaus , she joined SASA and was represented on their 1917 exhibition in a variety of media…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad … that make up “Intersections…
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … the evocative series Chasing Shadows. His…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
… is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the…
BiographyElizabeth Drake
… in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were much … travels England and South Africa…
BiographyLeo Rbc Francois
… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite … but they came to nothing. His death in 1938…
BiographyLucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles
… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…
BiographyConstance Greaves
… study". The genre emerged in SA at this time as a result of efforts by the likes of Leo Francois to create a school of figure painting as an antidote to the…
BiographyFrederick Hutchinson Page
… according to one critic, have made him known as ‘a kind of Hitchcock among painters’. Page always used a limited … that he limited his palette to black and…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
… Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. … of emergency, could resist the analogy…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
… friend John Gomas , she joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , aged 16. In the same year, she lost … in an anti-pass campaign. She was involved…
BiographyThabani Derrick Zulu
… in 1971 and continued Fine Art studies at the University of South Africa receiving a BA(FA). He has taught at a number of schools in Gauteng and KZN. He is a…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… sixteen years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist … the Springbok Legion , a progressive…
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
… Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the … [i] Malinga would go on to make a brilliant career out of boxing…
Zubeida Vallie
… removed under the Group Areas Act . She is a graduate of the Peninsula Technikon. Between 1985 and 1989, she … in South Africa and around the world. Vallie…
BiographyGraham Goddard
… in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on the Cape Flats, in Wetton, Wynberg and, … on some personal photographic projects. The…
BiographyCedric Nunn
… and Resistance" in 1982 and to the Staffrider exhibitions of 1983, 1984 and to the "Year of the Woman" exhibition in 1984. His work was includes a … brought…
BiographyDali Tambo
… Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife … and later went on to study at the American University of Paris where he…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… There are two types of World Heritage Sites. The first represents cultural and … sites Cultural heritage sites have to show a masterpiece of human creativity…