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Mary Malete

… was the president of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the first president of the South African … Arbitration (CCMA), LAMOSA (Land Access…

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1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

… research into the lives of African artists in South Africa. When the late Sipho Sepamla  invited her in 1986 to … Mancoba  (1904-2002) of whom art historians…

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Rodger Bosch

… the years, he has photographed the joy and pain of South Africa emerging from apartheid. First, the early democracy … Zuma. His work has appeared in…

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1961

Jo Ractliffe

… at private and public institutions throughout South Africa and abroad including the Salzburg Summer Academy in … Conflict: Jo Ractliffe's photographs of…

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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Mxenge.” Mabizela then enrolled at University of South Africa (UNISA), in Pretoria in 1961 to continue with his … the Soviet Union before returning to work…

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1932-2018

Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha

… the South West African case (Ethiopia and Liberia vs South Africa) at the international Court of Justice, The Hague, … at this time that he first became…

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1946-2010

Paul Alberts

… Paul Alb   erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born … Council). Some evidence of things seen: Children of South Africa,…

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1879-1931

Stephen William Black

… When the commercial entertainment circuits of South Africa were suffering a depression in 1908, and many overseas … Town to determine the unification of the…

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1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South Africa, where David chose to pursue a career in anthropology. … topic of kinship.  His fieldwork had…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… published by the Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa described the strike this way: “Over 4600 members of … appealed to ethnic affiliations and…

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Mohamed Farouk Asvat

… AWARDS Farouk Asvat won the Vita Literary Award for southern Africa for his anthology, A Celebration of Flames. He was … South African Literature; Crisis and…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… Mayekiso” and “Free All Anti-Apartheid Prisoners in South Africa” campaign. Following the formation of the  National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa  …

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… to Morogoro in 1966 where a military expedition to South Africa was mapped out. Phokanoka was part of the … the operation was carried out first, over the…

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1894-1966

Irma Stern

… exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return to South Africa, equipped with influences from German expressionism … prize followed by the Oppenheimer award on …

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

… his schooling, he attended various universities in South Africa, the United States of America and Britain. He left the … of NAFCOC  (1984).Between 1985 and…

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1995

Enver Hassim

… member of the head committee and the executive of the All Africa Convention, of which he was later elected to the … Hassim was asked to present a paper on…

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1935-1988

Dulcie Evonne September

… an affiliate of the Non European Unity Movement of South Africa (NEUM). The CPSU aimed at overcoming racial divisions … September joined the African Peoples…

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1925-2012

Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias

… did not. The reply was that there was no one in South Africa suitably qualified in genetics to answer the question. … . He established the Institute for the…

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1943

Bonisile John Kani

… Kani was also nominated for his role in My Children My Africa! On his return to South African from touring overseas, … killed during riots. Kani was given a…

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1924-2009

Dennis Brutus

… the international sports boycott against apartheid South Africa.  He was elected as this body’s president. Brutus … of the International Olympic Committee. …

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1813-1873

David Livingstone

… was able to reconcile religion with science. He moved to Africa as a medical missionary in 1841, arriving in the Cape … Kuruman, at the time an outpost of…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother.  When she was three years old, the…

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1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… often offered a high standard of academic education. Some southern tribes changed radically in the manner of life they … concluded that, so long as the white…

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1933-2009

Anton Ndoda Xaba

… in Northern Rhodesia.  They were then sent back to South Africa through Southern Rhodesia to stand trial for leaving the country …

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1902-1996

Jane Gool

… Her father, an immigrant from India, settled in South Africa after spending some time in Mauritius. He was a … in England and was the second Black doctor in…

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1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… Primary School between 1936 and 1941.He then came to South Africa where he did his secondary schooling at St Ansgars … Institution, Roodepoort, in the then…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… refuge for Jews.) When Balkema decided to settle in South Africa after the war, he brought with him a background of … the finest work ever to have been…

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1948-2020

Achmat Dangor

… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with his grandmother in Fordsburg, … He served as the representative of the…

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1939

Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa

… he was seconded to the church's general secretariat of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) in … an MA in philosophy and theology. On…

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1836-1914

Joseph Chamberlain

… people, opposing Disraeli’s wars with the Zulus in South Africa. However, when Gladstone made Irish Home Rule a part … was necessary to check the growth of…

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