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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle, an aspirant piano … before settling on the bass as his chosen…

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2013

Ephraim Nkwe

… African Youth Congress (SAYCO) was formed in March 1987 at a secret meeting in Cape Town. Ephraim Nkwe was a member of its first executive committee.  …

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1930

Plaatjies Joseph Paul

… joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. After few years he became a leather-worker by day in a furniture factory owned by the ……

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1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… Wilton Zimasile  Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He … Mkwayi went into hiding and then left…

B-0008576

1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  He attended … classes at the Natal School of Art, Durban,…

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1882-1960

Mary Fitzgerald

… Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to…

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Jonathan Ngwenya

… at Kwame Nkrumah Military Base. In 1978, he was deployed to the APLA headquarters in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Between … into the  South African National…

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1960

Ismail Vadi

… Trinity Secondary School in Lenasia in 1976, and went on to study for a Master Arts degree in History at Witwatersrand. He taught as a senior History and…

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Rosalie van der Gucht

… Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech and drama…

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1915

Benjamin S. Rajuili

… Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare, earning a B.A. degree. After teaching, he became a…

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1920

Lorna Peirson

… She was born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a BA(FA) in 1950 from UN(P). From 1941 to 1950 she taught at ……

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1919

Joseph Albert Mokoena

… M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of the … While a student in Johannesburg, he was…

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1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…

B-0008174

1956

Paul Weinberg

… Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…

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1795-1875

Abraham Faure

… tune in church and intellectual circles at the Cape. As a preacher he was famous for his impressive style and delivery; as a person he was serious,…

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1882-1966

Constance Greaves

… Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This was the "native study". The genre emerged in…

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1983

Portia Modise

… Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Modise chose football at a young age over the more popular girls’ choice of netball. … game in the world. She also played a…

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1965

Tracy Payne

… Tracy Payne’s hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She was born in 1965 in…

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1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… in the Ndwedwe district, excelling at craftwork. He went to Amanzimtoti Training College to train as a teacher.  While there he received a bursary to train…

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1933-1987

Eric Ngcobo

… Ngcobo was born near Melmoth, Zululand. He was educated to secondary school level at Inkamane. In 1953 he attended … Natal, studying there from 1953 to 1954…

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1908-1970

Paul Herman Robinson

… at the EP and Commercial Printing Company. In 1929 he went to England and attended the Bolt Court School of Process Engravings and returned to SA in 1930 and…

B-0008962

1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… was born on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme … captaincy…

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1953

Vukile Ntuli

… taught at schools in KZN between 1976 and 1977.  From 1978 to 1983 he studied for a BA(FA) at the University of Fort Hare. Ntuli undertook … at the…

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David Anderson

… 1977, submitting work for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, … Year Award. He has published several…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… Vuyi Lesley Mbalo was born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to…

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1911

Sam Kahn

… degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), and a … of the National Liberation…

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1923-1966

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

… in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycotts. He was … for five years.  At this time he earned…

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1926-2009

Gerrit Viljoen

… Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his … enrolled at the University of…

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… in Durban and matriculated in 1959.  She then went on to study for a Diploma in Commercial Art at the Durban Institute of … For the remainder Maggie was self…

B-0067163

1926

Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen

… Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his … enrolled at the University of…

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