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BiographyHannah Lurie
She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London (1962-1965). She has held numerous solo…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South…
BiographyShulamith Muller
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948…
BiographyElizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…
BiographyJeremiah 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…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s…
Lionel Morrison
Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono,…
The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963 (African Studies) by Paul Mosley
BiographyLucky Shabalala
Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving heads. Shabalala…
BiographyCaiphas Nxumalo
Caiphas Nxumalo graduated from Rorke's Drift in 1971 and during the 1970s was a free-lance artist in Pomeroy. He uses indigenous woods for his sculpture and…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…
BiographyRashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town,…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… 1900s 1917 27 October, Oliver Reginald Tambo (OR) is born in …
BiographyAndrew Meintjes
Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, he met photographer David Goldblatt…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the…
BiographyDiamond Bozas
Diamond Bozas was born at Isipingo. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London. He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts…
BiographyEric Hendrik Louw
Louw was a politician and a diplomat. During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…