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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…

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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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Gwede Mantashe

… Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa) … of the National Union of Mineworkers…

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Mavuso Walter Msimang

… at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was … the Wankie Campaign (July - September…

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1977

Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy

… Bafana in 1997 against Netherlands, when South Africa lost to the visiting side by two goals. After this game, the … Bennie's international soccer career. …

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university he joined the … Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was…

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Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi

… Born in 1936, Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi was a clerk. He taught for a while in a primary school but then had to find employment in Johannesburg to support…

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1923-1976

Mogamat Taufie Bardien

… had little formal schooling. He ran away from home at 16 to join the Cape Coloured Corps and was conscripted to fight in Alexandria during World War II. ……

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1946-2010

Paul Alberts

… but did not complete his studies. In 1965 he travelled to Europe and lived in Paris. He worked as a journalist on various newspapers ( Die Vaderland, Die ……

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1941

Azaria Mbatha

…   Azaria Mbatha was born in 1941. Azaria was educated at a mission school for eight years. In 1961 he left Ceza Secondary School and began working as a clerk…

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1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

… in Leicester, England, 1878. Stained glass was integral to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art and design, which aimed at giving a…

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1952

Saint Mokoena

… He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He received his primary education at … selling his pictures on the roadside he was…

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1909-1944

Samuel Makoanyane

… by C. G. Damant, who discovered Makoanyane's work in 1931, to depict Basuto (Sotho) people rather than the missionaries … Makoanyane used materials such as…

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1947-2008

Mike Terry

… Movement of 1959. The AAM was established in response to an appeal by  Chief Albert Luthuli , President of the  … African National Congress (ANC)  and other…

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1947

Ben M. Skosana

… was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later … the diploma in Social Development. He…

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1962

Chris Kirchhoff

… early years in Norway and Massachusetts before returning to Johannesburg to complete his schooling.  He studied Land … and spent 14 months working in…

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1958

Jonathan Shapiro

… Town in 1958 and also known as Zapiro. Could not imagine a career in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not imagine a…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up … he left the arm at the age of 16, he started…

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1897-1972

Nils Severin Andersen

… Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in … Durban Technical College.He also joined the NSA, becoming a Council member in 1929…

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1957

Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla

… 11 July 1957 in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the … of Natal. It was at university that Phaahla…

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1958-2008

Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo

… structures of these organisations. She later moved to Rhodes University, Grahamstown , Eastern Cape where she … Executive Council (NEC) in 1989.   She was…

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1956-2003

Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba

… of Gerard Bhengu (qv.) for example, as ‘the persistence of a romantic realism’ that reflects a “popular language that is accessible and lucid”. At the ……

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1916-1968

Leng Dixon

… from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period in Paris in 1939. He subsequently became its … the latter and SASA, there is…

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1980

Clive Zamani Xaba

… traditional healing and inflicting injury. He takes a sensitive, private subject and subjects it to analysis. In this painting, which is set in a traditional…

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the  Bantu World,  working…

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in…

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1972

Leoni Marinovich

… A documentary and fine art photographer, Leonie's (nee … documentary, Village of the Spirits, for SABC2 (2001), a 52 minute film on the Eritreain liberation…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant public speaker,…

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