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1932

Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe was born on 22 March 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua Matsepe, senior police sergeant and…

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1937

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri

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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…

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1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

Jacob Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer…

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1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

  Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was…

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1921-1976

Leslie Massina

Leslie  Massina was born in 1921 in Pimville, Johannesburg, Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective…

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1936-2008

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo was born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He attended school at Saint Angsgurs Primary School in 1946 and matriculated in 1954 from the…

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei. After the death of his first…

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1929-2017

Emma Thandi Mashinini

Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…

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1927-1994

Mizream Maseko

Mizream Maseko (also documented as Mizraim, Mizriam, Mizram) was born on 10 June 1927. Maseko began his career as a house painter after completing his studies…

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

A chairman of the Orlando African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and elected to the ANC national executive committee in December…

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1936-2008

Joseph Ramapulane Maseko

Soweto based artist, Joe Maseko, died in Johannesburg in May 2008 at the age of 71. Maseko is best known for his vibrant paintings of township scenes.

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1908

Thomas Selema Masekela

Thomas Selema Masekela was born on 16 December 1908 in Madibeng farm near Dikgale near Pietersburg, Transvaal. Seeking education for their children, Masekela\…

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1958-2009

Frans “Ting Ting” Masango

Frans “Ting Ting” Masango grew up in Mamelodi, Tswane.  His mother was a domestic worker and his father was an employee at a construction company.  Masango had…

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1897-1976

Helen Elizabeth Martins

Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative…

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1874-1939

Alfred Richard Martin

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1876-1935

Francis Pickford Marriott

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1928-1994

Maritz Barrymore

Maritz Barrymore was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He trained as a painter from 1950-1953 at the University of Rhodes, Eastern Cape,…

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1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

Thabo Marera was born in Soweto on 18 September 1972 and matriculated at Anchor Orlando North High School.  After studying drama at the Natal Technikon he went…

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1871-1936

Eugene Marais

Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the newspaper, Land en Volk…

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Chief Maqoma

"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King…

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1939

Louis Khela Maqhubela

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1949-2004

Matome Maponya

Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an existence on their…

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1945

Bhekisani Manyoni

Bhekisani Manyoni was born on 6 September 1945 in Greytown, Natal. After Manyoni completed three years of study at Rorke\'s Drift in 1963 he was employed at…

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1923

Lucas Mangope

From 1947 to 1949 he worked in the Department of Native Affairs and in 1951 commenced studying for the Higher Primary Teacher's Diploma at Bethel College near…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal, probably between 1885 and…

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Adeline Mangcu

HIV positive mother and works as an AIDS educator.

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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community…

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