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Jansie Lourens

… After Barbara Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . … and the spreading of pamphlets. Lourens was…

B-0008336

1927

Dinah Molefe

… Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went…

B-0008618

1948

Eric Mbatha

… Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift . He had a longer relationship with Rorke’s Drift than most artists, … artists who commenced classes in 1971…

B-0008512

1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and … strengthened by the forced removal of Botshabelo residents to make way for White…

B-0008094

1921

Richard Ernest van der Ross

… studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was principal of a teacher training school. He…

B-0068650

1954

Vincent Oliphant

… Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the … went…

B-0008852

1969

Kim Ludbrook

… Natal. After completing his national service he moved to England in 1990 and studied photojournalism from 1993-1994 … Kent Institute of Art and Design,…

B-0008340

1920

Isaac Osier Horvitch

… of Communism Act he became Chairman of the Forum Club, a multi-racial political discussion club. He was arrested on … after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960,…

B-0008177

1952

Aleta Michaletos

… She has travelled extensively and also writes essays on a variety of issues, some of which have recently been published. She is also a keen photographer. She…

B-0008560

1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… while at high school. She studied for two years at a teachers’ training college, qualified and, following her passion for writing, immediately went to join a…

B-0080693

1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg , to study Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Art, University … through the birth announcement of his…

B-0123071

1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the Inanda Seminary, a girls’ high school in Durban . She then studied at the Natal and Fort Hare Universities where she…

B-0067753

1957

Cedric Nunn

… 1981. Nunn joined  Afrapix  in the 1980s. In 1982 he moved to  Johannesburg  and then went abroad in 1983. Nunn was … of the Woman" exhibition in 1984. His…

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Hamilton Kraai

… Kraai was born and educated at Peddie in the Cape, he went to work as a warehouse foreman in Johannesburg, where he joined the  … charges were eventually…

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Rev. Joseph J Doke

… Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from this position if his pro-Indian sympathies were unacceptable to his congregation. He…

B-0008014

1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South African … Organisation in the Transvaal in the mid…

B-0008332

Betty Radford

… extracts from the Africa Mineworkers’ Union’s evidence to the Lansdown Commission. She was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943. … Editor of the …

B-0008927

1909

Frank Modiba

… Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer and received …

B-0008588

1930-2007

Doc Bikitsha

… Johannesburg. After passing Matric, Mr Bikitsha went to study at Pius X11 University College, then known as Roma … in Lesotho. He was expelled for allegedly…

B-0064904

1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

… Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, … audience. This, and other…

B-0008592

1809-1882

Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman

… at Winchester College and Oxford (where he formed a lifelong friendship with W. E. Gladstone), Merriman was … (Somersetshire) in 1840. In 3847 he offered his…

B-0008547

1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

… Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870, and settled in Pretoria. Jeppe began his career as a mining and property…

B-0008204

1917

Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko

… in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in  … He made his way through the…

B-0068365

1859-1936

Meshach Pelem

… in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in the Cape for several years, he went to the  Griqualand…

B-0068303

1932-2012

Sister Bernard Ncube

… She attended Roma College in Lesotho , where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered the Companions … in solitary confinement in 1986…

B-0008753

1950

Elizabeth Mbatha

… did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha , a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early 1980s she went to Rorke's Drift to look for work in the…

B-0008511

1940

Patrick O’Connor

… O'Connor was born in Bloemfontein. From 1960 to 1964 he studied at WITS where he obtained a BA(FA). In 1964 he was a lecturer at UDW and in 1971 he became a…

B-0008848

1967

Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo

… on 26 June 1967. His father Eliakim “Pro” Khumalo, was a renowned footballer in the 1970s and 1980s. When Khumalo … career, he was mentored by his father…

B-0097019

1927

Joseph Morolong

… in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from December 1956…

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