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1912-1969

Nell Kaye

Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…

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1886-1964

Dorothy Moss Kay

  Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in…

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1945

Milner Langa Kabane

Milner Langa Kabane was born in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning…

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1922

Elsa Joubert

Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…

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1831-1900

Piet Joubert

Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against the British. He led the…

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1927

Jack Joseph

Born in 1927 Joseph was a photographer. He served two months' imprisonment during the Defiance Campaign for defying railway apartheid regulations. He was…

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1906-1968

Archibald Campbell Jordan

Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of…

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…

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1948-2014

Jan Willem Jordaan

  Jordaan was born in Springs, Gauteng. He is a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, obtaining a BA (FA). He taught…

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1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

Joosub was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub…

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1933-1965

Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape. After her parents’ divorce, Jonker…

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1950

Peter Jones

Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…

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1884-1953

John David Rheinallt Jones

John David Rheinallt Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's…

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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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Gail Johnson

Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 Gail Johnson,…

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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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1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870,…

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1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] …

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD…

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1949-2010

Robert Edward Jansen

Legendary Cape Town jazz musician, Robert Edward Jansen was born on 5 August 1949.  The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of South Africa’s most…

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1955

Thamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali

Jali was born Durban. He is a painter, sculptor and a graphic artist who studied at the Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, 1981-1982.  He studied ceramics at the Natal…

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1958

Zubeida Jaffer

Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism…

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1859-1921

John Tengo Jabavu

John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January  in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His parents, though poor, were anxious to give him…

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1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of John Tengo Jabavu. After studying at Lovedale, he taught briefly,…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

Frederick Timpson I'Ons was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington…

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1876

Father Bernhard Alexander CMM Huss

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1906-1961

Andre Huguenet

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

"Nothing Can Match the singleness of purpose, the foresight, or tenacity through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…

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