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Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in District 6 in Cape Town. While incarcerated on Robben Island as a political … house arrest until 1976. In 1978 and 1979…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
… South African musician, Abdullah Ibrahim was born on the 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa. Born Adolph Johannes Brand, he … his job and went on to…
BiographyJoan Hoskyn Davies
… where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944 she transferred to the … a period in England, Davies was…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… Janet Mary Cherry was born in 1961 in Cape Town , where she was raised. Janet comes from a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
… Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight … Dominica, for adventure. From there he went…
BiographyBarbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
… born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg . She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema … was raised in a politically conscious family…
BiographyGeraldine Fraser-Moleketi
… Geraldine Fraser was born in 1960 in Lansdowne, Cape Town . She received her primary education in Wynberg and matriculated at Livingstone High School in…
BiographyRahima Moosa
… Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand , Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town . As a teenager, Rahima and her identical…
BiographyHamilton Naki
… Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in 1930. His family was poor and after completing primary school he left for…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
… Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser for the National Party (NP), and Member of Parliament for Vasco … post in philosophy at the University of the…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended St. … (ANC). In…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… The majority of colonial governments did little to support schools. Most formal schooling African colonies were a result … and Britain In December 1895, Sir…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… influenza pandemic. In July 1918, when Mandela was born, the First World War was still raging with no end in sight. In … against Turkish forces in Palestine…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… who were anxious to defend the Afrikaans language in schools and in the public service. While the defence of … striving for economic and political domination…
BiographyJimi Matthews
… Jimi Matthews was born in 1955 in Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. After school he enrolled at a … students but before his…
BiographyBenedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy
… Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape Town based club, Cape Town Spurs. He made…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… she was 12 years old, her parents – Sydney Dodson (who was the piano department manager of a furniture business in the city) and Olive (neè Hiles) got…
BiographyStanley Silwana
… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South … in Johannesburg in 1924. He later moved to the western Cape, where…
The South African War
… The South African War To this day the reasons for this … packed their goods and left, many going no further that Cape Town and Durban to await developments…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The factors that have been covered in … from the riches and investment brought to the country…
BiographyDerek Andre Hanekom
… Derek Andre Hanekom was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool … Patricia Murray, worked a rented…
BiographyEthel Edwards
… On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel … and an Art Mistress". We know that she taught drawing in Cape Town from…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Introduction Full feature on the History of Women’s struggle in South Africa will give a … to change when in 1943 the ANC decided to allow women to join,…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… interpreter. In 1908 he began theological training at the Lessyton Theological school near Queenstown. He was … Bensonvale near Herschel. From there he was…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became … and a leader of the African National Congress in the Cape. He…
BiographyBaron Joachim van Plettenberg
… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, … married Cornelia Charlotte Feith. In 1772 he came to the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… Like their African counterparts, the organisations of the coloured elite came out strongly in … APO played a direct role in recruiting coloureds for the Cape…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West , Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not … but received private tutoring at home. She…
BiographyAndries Treurnicht
… born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Cape Town. He attended Piketberg High School where he … awarded a B.A. he enrolled in 1942 for an M…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated … of Art in London, and in painting at The…