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1946

Malcolm Payne

… Payne has attained status as an influential South African artist, and has won several awards. These include … First Prize at New Signatures Competition of…

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1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… savage noble and the noble savages. Photography and an African Initiation”, engendered much debate. He photographed … as that around the depiction of the…

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… against teachers. She joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)  in 1971 and attended a conference …  and Barney Pityana , and…

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George Montsioa

… of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is third African Barrister in South Africa. Mr. Montsioa commenced his … black. In 1912 he was appointed recording…

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1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… where she grew up as a child. Her father was a lecturer in African languages at the University of the Witwatersrand who … Church. In 1954 Bantu Education was…

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1967

Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo

… organizations, Mbuyabo established a branch of the African Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Welcomewood.  He was … his involvement with progressive…

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1950

Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi

… Orlando West High School while his was there he joined the African Students' Movement in the 1960s. In October 1968, he … 1973 Cindi wrote a letter of…

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2006

Daniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi

… workers under the banner of the Congress of South African Congress of Trade Unions (COSATU). In the late … the Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee of the …

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

… on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing about African…

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1974

Wim Botha

… Heaven, purgatory and hell revisited by contemporary African artists at the MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), … Donaueschingen, Germany (2014); Imaginary Fact:…

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1957

Mohammed Valli Moosa

… and in 1977 was an executive member of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) when it was banned. … role in protests around the formation of the…

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1891-1965

Dr Silas Modiri Molema

… Dr. Molema was a good speaker and one of the foremost African scholars. He married the daughter of Rev. M.J. … Montshioa. Since the 1940s, Dr Molema was…

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1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

… Gana Makabeni  was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced financial … At university she became a student…

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1956

Ben Mclennan

… later worked as a parliamentary reporter for the South African Press Association (SAPA), spending his time between … Cape. Mclennan’s photographs were…

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life,’ Gordimer has said. In the 1980s … being a founder member and patron of the…

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Brigalia Bam

… Rights. She worked as the general secretary for the South African Council of Churches between 1997 and 1998. She was a … a board member of the Matla Trust as…

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1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… clerk, and a stevedore.He became a union organiser for the African Textile Workers in Port Elizabeth in the early 1950s, he later served as treasurer of the…

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Jonathan Ngwenya

… until 1994, after which he was integrated into the  South African National Defence Force  (SANDF) as a major and … and later joined the Directing Staff at…

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1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South African Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during … baby. He was also an active member of the…

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1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… ("Spear of the Nation") (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1961 and joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1961…

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1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… Of Democrats in Natal,a legal advisor to the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and ANC. He joined … following the  Suppression of Communism Act …

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1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… Johannesburg - 1948 Overseas Exhibition of South African Art, Tate Gallery - 1950 Memorial Exhibition, … Town - 1976/7 Prestige Retrospective Exhibition,…

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… Correspondence College. In 1977 he joined the African National Congress (ANC), in the next year he was a … Organisation (AZAPO), and in 1981 he joined the …

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1954

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

… of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  Walter  and  … in London. However, her dream was shattered…

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1950

Biddy Partridge

… first began work as a freelance photographer for the South African Council for Higher Education (SACHED). From … the process of relocating to Zimbabwe…

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… of Pretoria, Gauteng, as the headquarters of the South African Police counterinsurgency unit working for the … Vlakplaas police squad.Coetzee ordered the…

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1953

Penny Siopis

… had a major retrospective, Time and Again, at Iziko South African National Gallery and later that year at the Wits … Time and Again: A Retrospective…

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1940

Gille De Vlieg

… view of South Africa, a view not seen on the South African TV screen then.” The next several years she spent … de Vlieg Photographic Collection is held by…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… profession which was about the only profession open to African youths at the time, she decided to become a nurse. … training under Dr Neil Macvicar* who was…

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