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| P-0150441 | place | Fordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg | 9 Sep 2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008576 | biography | Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi | 1923-2004 | – |
| B-0008072 | biography | Mary Fitzgerald | 1882-1960 | ✓ |
| B-0008784 | biography | Jonathan Ngwenya | – | – |
| B-0009198 | biography | Rosalie van der Gucht | – | – |
| B-0008932 | biography | Benjamin S. Rajuili | 1915 | – |
| B-0008873 | biography | Lorna Peirson | 1920 | – |
| B-0067980 | biography | Joseph Albert Mokoena | 1919 | – |
| B-0008174 | biography | Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk | 1911-1990 | – |
| B-0068755 | biography | Paul Weinberg | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0007766 | biography | Abraham Faure | 1795-1875 | – |
| B-0008122 | biography | Constance Greaves | 1882-1966 | – |
| B-0099532 | biography | Portia Modise | 1983 | ✓ |
| B-0121773 | biography | Tracy Payne | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008132 | biography | G. S. (Smart) Gumede | 1943-2001 | – |
| B-0008770 | biography | Eric Ngcobo | 1933-1987 | – |
| B-0008962 | biography | Paul Herman Robinson | 1908-1970 | – |
| B-0008904 | biography | Shaun Maclean Pollock | 1973 | ✓ |
| B-0008830 | biography | Vukile Ntuli | 1953 | – |
| B-0068170 | biography | David Anderson | – | – |
| B-0008507 | biography | Vuyi Lesley Mbalo | – | – |
| B-0008225 | biography | Sam Kahn | 1911 | – |
| B-0007799 | biography | Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal | 1923-1966 | – |
| B-0068727 | biography | Gerrit Viljoen | 1926-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0067163 | biography | Maggie Mikula | 1941-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0009204 | biography | Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen | 1926 | – |
| B-0070789 | biography | Gwede Mantashe | – | ✓ |
| B-0068145 | biography | Mavuso Walter Msimang | – | – |
| B-0008526 | biography | Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy | 1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008714 | biography | Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi | – | – |
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
Named after Lewis Peter Ford of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company, Fordsburg was built on the outskirts of the Johannesburg gold reef to house miners. The…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
BiographyMary 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…
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
Col Jonathan Ngwenya received his basic military training as APLA activist in Conakry, Guinea in 1977. He completed his Instructor Course at Kwame Nkrumah…
BiographyRosalie 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 education…
BiographyBenjamin S. Rajuili
Benjamin S. Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare,…
BiographyLorna 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…
BiographyJoseph Albert Mokoena
Joseph Albert Mashite Mokoena was born in 25 November 1919 in Johannesburg, he was educated at St. Peter's Secondary School, where he matriculated in 1938,…
BiographyJan 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…
BiographyPaul 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…
BiographyAbraham Faure
Abraham Faure was born on 29 August 1795 in Stellenbosch. Faure was one of the leading personalities of his tune in church and intellectual circles at the Cape…
BiographyConstance Greaves
Constance Helen Greaves was born in Brighton, Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This…
BiographyPortia Modise
Portia "Bashin" Modise was born on 20 June 1983 in White City Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Modise chose football at a young age over the more…
BiographyTracy 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…
BiographyG. S. (Smart) Gumede
He was born and died at Ndwedwe, Natal. He attended school in the Ndwedwe district, excelling at craftwork. He went to Amanzimtoti Training College to train as…
BiographyEric Ngcobo
Ngcobo was born near Melmoth, Zululand. He was educated to secondary school level at Inkamane. In 1953 he attended Ndaleni Educational Training Centre, Natal,…
BiographyPaul Herman Robinson
Paul Herman Robinson was born in Durban and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at the Natal Technical College. He did his apprenticeship in…
BiographyShaun Maclean Pollock
Shaun 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…
BiographyVukile Ntuli
Ntuli was born in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his primary school education at the Ndaleni Practising School, Richmond, at the Ndaleni…
David Anderson
David ‘Andy’ Anderson was born in Kwazulu-Natal. He began his editorial cartooning career in 1977, submitting work for the Natal Witness. He went on to do work…
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 flee…
BiographySam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa …
BiographyMohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief. He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955…
BiographyGerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of…
BiographyMaggie Mikula
Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959. She then went on to study for a Diploma…
BiographyGerrit 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 birth his father was the editor of…
BiographyGwede Mantashe
Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of…
BiographyBenedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy
Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape Town based club, Cape Town Spurs. He made his…
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 seven…