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1902-1976

J.J.R Jolobe

James Ranisi Jolobe was best known for his collection of poems, Umyezo (1936). He also played a major role in the compilation and translation of the English…

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1981

Solomon Albert Mahutso

Solomon Albert Mahutso, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was killed in a South African Defence Force raid in…

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Harry Moyaga

Apart from interaction with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in…

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Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi

Born in 1936, Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi was a clerk. He taught for a while in a primary school but then had to find employment in Johannesburg to support seven…

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1952

Membathisi Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana

On 12 May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the…

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Patricia Jobodwana

Jobodwana was the first and youngest Black woman to graduate from a South African university. She enrolled at Fort Hare University at the age of 14 for a BSc…

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1923-1976

Mogamat Taufie Bardien

Woodstock in 1923, Bardien had little formal schooling. He ran away from home at 16 to join the Cape Coloured Corps and was conscripted to fight in Alexandria…

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Magdelene Malotane Adams

Magdelene Moloto was born in a Mission Station in Limpopo. She lived with her grandmother until she completed her primary school education. She married Simon…

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1942-2011

Amichand Rajbansi

Amichand “Bengal Tiger” Rajbansi was born in Clairwood, Durban on 14 January 1942. At the age of 14 he attended every African National Congress (ANC) rally…

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1920-2001

Dorothy Shanley

Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest and trial of Dorothy…

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1974

Mark Fish

Mark Fish, or “Feeeeeesh!” as we know him, was born in Cape Town on 14 March 1974. He started his soccer career in South Africa, but has departed our shores to…

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20 January-1967

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young…

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1925-2008

Nthato Harrison Motlana

Black business pioneer, community leader, altruistic medical practitioner, involved in several education initiatives, former secretary-general of the ANC Youth…

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1949

Sadecque Variava

Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July 1949 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven…

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1960

Kehla Elphas Ngobese

Ngobese was born in Kwa Mashu where he works as a full-time artist. He is largely self-trained as an artist. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions…

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1966

Leong Yun Pin

Mr Leong Pin died on 19 November 1966 after being detained on 18 Novemver 1966 at the Leeuwkop prison under the 180-day clause.The official cause of death at…

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1923

Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa

Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in subsequent Congress…

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1936

Johannes Mashego Segogela

Johannes Mashego Segogela was born in 1936, in Sekhukhuneland, Transvaal. Segogela trained as a boiler-maker. He had no formal art training. For many years he…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo…

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1897-1972

Nils Severin Andersen

Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…

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1879-1959

Marion Gill

Marion Gill was born in 1879, United Kingdom. She lived in SA from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in…

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1945-1988

Stanley Bongani Nkosi

Stanley Bongani Nkosi was born on 25 November 1945 in Newcastle, Natal. When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukhatole tear Germiston in the…

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1956

Ben Mclennan

Ben Mclennan was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early…

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1960-1982

Siphiwo Maxwell “Congress” Mthimkhulu

Siphiwo Maxwell “Congress” Mthimkhulu, son of Sipho and Joyce Nobantu Mthimkhulu was born on the 23 March 1960. He grew up in Njoli Street, Zwide Township in…

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Abdullah Haji Adam Jhaveri

He was commonly referred to as Dada Abdulla. His brother, Abdul Karim Jhaveri, and himself, were the directors of Dada Abdulla and Company. Dada Abdulla met…

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1772-1841

Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin

British soldier, and Governor at the Cape from 1820-21. He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife. He…

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1927

C. M Kobus

C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the…

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1949

Daniel Gordon Gabashane

Gabashane is a graphic artist and ceramic sculptor. He attended the ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift during the 1960s.  He was an instructor at the…

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1947

Henry Mshololo

Mshololo was born at Umzinyathi, Zululand. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects such as wooden spoons and meat platters. One of his special interests…

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