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1934-2010

Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu

Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu was born on 8 November 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the first born son of…

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1932-2021

James Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo

A colossal figure amongst South African choral music composers and directors, Professor James Steven* Mzilikazi Khumalo was born on 20 June 1932 on the…

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1946

Franco Frescura

Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…

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1936

Mama Beshenga

During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act, there was great panic and confusion within the…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

Jan Celliers was born on 12 January 1865 on the farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an…

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1947

Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer

Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

Bertram Dumbleton was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic Julian in Paris. During his…

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1866-1954

Elizabeth Drake

Elizabeth Drake was born in 1866 in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were much…

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1938-1990

Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana

Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a renowned saxophonist born on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth. The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at…

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1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew…

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1955

William Kentridge

"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in…

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1948

Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph

Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph was born in Pretoria in 1948, and was educated at Pretoria High School for Girls. As a student, she displayed an extraordinary gift for…

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1908

Edgar Arthur Deane

Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a period on the Cape…

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1926-2004

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 part to his…

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1946

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 like the seriousness…

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1957

Saleem Badat

Dr Saleem Badat holds Bachelors and Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and Science…

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Hamilton Kraai

Hamilton Kraai was born and educated at Peddie in the Cape, he went to work as a warehouse foreman in Johannesburg, where he joined the African National…

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1860-1921

Ellias John Mqoboli

E. J. Mqoboli was born around 1860 in the Cape and educated at Healdtown, Mqoboli trained first as a teacher and then as a Methodist minister. Politically…

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1930-2007

Doc Bikitsha

Basil Sipho Neo Bridgeman Bikitsha, known as “Doc” Bikitsha, was born on 19 November 1930 at the Bridgman Memorial Hospital in Mayfair, Johannesburg. After…

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1956

Clive Van den Berg

Van den Berg Clive was born in Zambia. He studied at UN(P) and obtained a BA(FA). He lectured in Art History at UN(P) in 1982. From 1983 he was a lecturer at…

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1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste…

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1930-2014

Nelson “Nana” Mahomo

Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s…

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1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870,…

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1923-2010

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to…

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1949

Cynthia Shange

Cynthia Shange was born in Lamontville, Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title…

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1983

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu was born on 1 January 1983 in Malamulele, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He studied at Mphambo High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he…

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1932

David Phaswane Mogano

David Phaswane Mogano was born on 2 September 1932 in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal, Mogano was educated at Mogano Higher Primary School in Pietersburg. He…

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1935

Jeremiah W Dunjwa

Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…

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Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata

Documentation related to Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal …

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