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1957

Anna Zieminski

… School of Art in Cape Town. In 1985, Zieminski moved to Johannesburg to pursue a career as a freelance photographer. In 1988 she became a member of …

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1956

Graham Goddard

… in Wetton, Wynberg and, Belthorn. In 1980 his family moved to Mitchell’s Plain where he currently lives. He became … first camera in 1981 with money earned…

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1890-1968

Eric 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…

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1911-1986

Esther Susanna Mentz

… Afrikaans records and teaching singing. In 1934 she went to Germany to study singing and acting and returned to South … that promoted the development of…

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John S. P. Motloheloa

… Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting … in Cape Town, the South African government…

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1829-1871

Tiyo Soga

… was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South African … South Africa after the…

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1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he completed a Ph.D. in 1917. His doctoral dissertation, published as  The … Institute vogue in black American…

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1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 … commission. This was from financier Sammy…

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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. After studying first…

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1906-1967

George John Golding

… in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher and school principal in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then … Advisory Council, set up in 1943, and…

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… but they were jettisoned for political activism and ‘to become a full-time political organiser at the time of the 1952 … Vereeniging District, Transvaal. He…

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1964

Menzi Mcunu

… Community Arts Workshop, Durban. In 1987 he was awarded a bursary by the Daily News to study art Fine Art at the Technikon Natal. He 1985 he exhibited at the…

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1929

Peter Papela Nthite

… Born 1929, the son of a labourer, he grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. From St Cyprian's in Sophiatown he went to Adams College but left school at 16 to…

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Unknown

Bransby Ndobe

… Born 1927. With  Elliot Tonjeni ,  Bransby Ndobe  did much to organise  African National Congress  (ANC) branches … Elizabeth and also to radicalise Coloured…

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2012

Semi Jokanisi

… his five young children, as well as assisted his father to support his seven siblings, nephew and mother. His death has had a deep impact on his mother. His…

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2012

Janeveke Raphael Liau

… supported his late brother’s wife and children. According to his wife, Masebolai Liau, "Janveke was a very caring and selfless man. He loved his family and…

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2012

Thobisile Zibambele

… the majority of which are still at school. According to his wife, Nokuthula Zibambele, "I am attending the Commission of Inquiry because I want to know the…

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… involved for many years in art education. He trained as a teacher at the Zonnebloem College in Cape Town, first teaching at a primary school in Oudtshoorn…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… born in Cape Town on 30 April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney from the east end of London, was the breadwinner at … at the Alhambra Theatre in Cape Town,…

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1925-1988

Dr. Connie Mulder

… Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal … with the University of the Witwatersrand and…

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1897-1986

Gertrud Theiler

… matriculating at Pretoria Girls’ High School Theiler spent a year at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown and from there went to the South African…

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1977

Makhaya Ntini

… Makhaya Ntini was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's…

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1977-2006

Lebo Mathosa

… seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to Johannesburg where Mathosa attended the St. Mary’s High … of the 90’s. Their first single It’s…

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1925-1988

Cornelius Petrus Mulder

… Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal … with the University of the Witwatersrand and…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She returned to South Africa the following year to study at the…

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1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally … Yutar was South Africa’s first Jewish…

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… in Cornwall, England in 1906. Williams whose father was a blacksmith left Cornwall for Johannesburg in 1928. After … he worked as an English school teacher…

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1930-2014

Nelson “Nana” Mahomo

… was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s. Sympathetic to the…

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1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid … security forces, experiences that she…

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