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| B-0007827 | biography | Mogamat Taufie Bardien | 1923-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008510 | biography | Azaria Mbatha | 1941 | – |
| B-0008128 | biography | Charles Sidney Groves | 1878-1964 | – |
| B-0008614 | biography | Saint Mokoena | 1952 | – |
| B-0008408 | biography | Samuel Makoanyane | 1909-1944 | ✓ |
| B-0068549 | biography | Mike Terry | 1947-2008 | – |
| B-0009077 | biography | Ben M. Skosana | 1947 | – |
| B-0008261 | biography | Chris Kirchhoff | 1962 | – |
| B-0096423 | biography | Jonathan Shapiro | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0125771 | biography | Hailu Mergia | 1946 | – |
| B-0007790 | biography | Nils Severin Andersen | 1897-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0067723 | biography | Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008401 | biography | Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba | 1956-2003 | – |
| B-0008009 | biography | Leng Dixon | 1916-1968 | – |
| B-0009240 | biography | Clive Zamani Xaba | 1980 | – |
| B-0068268 | biography | Matthew Nkoana | 1930 | – |
| B-0008255 | biography | Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo | 1922-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008629 | biography | Molly Wolton | 1906-1947 | – |
| B-0008336 | biography | Jansie Lourens | – | ✓ |
| B-0008618 | biography | Dinah Molefe | 1927 | – |
| B-0008512 | biography | Eric Mbatha | 1948 | – |
| B-0008094 | biography | Peter Hans Paul Gastrow | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0068650 | biography | Richard Ernest van der Ross | 1921 | – |
| B-0008852 | biography | Vincent Oliphant | 1954 | – |
| B-0008340 | biography | Kim Ludbrook | 1969 | – |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0008560 | biography | Aleta Michaletos | 1952 | – |
| B-0080693 | biography | Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet | 1937-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0123071 | biography | Barend de Wet | 1956-2017 | – |
BiographyMogamat Taufie Bardien
Woodstock in 1923, 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…
BiographyAzaria 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…
BiographyCharles Sidney Groves
Charles Sidney Groves Arca was born in Leicester, England, 1878. Stained glass was integral to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art…
BiographySaint Mokoena
He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He received his primary education at Thunzi Primary School where he started drawing, and at…
BiographySamuel Makoanyane
Samuel Makoanyane was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district…
BiographyMike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded the Boycott…
BiographyBen M. Skosana
Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further studies at St…
BiographyChris Kirchhoff
Born in 1962 in Johannesburg, Kirchhoff spend his early years in Norway and Massachusetts before returning to Johannesburg to complete his schooling. He…
BiographyJonathan Shapiro
Born in Cape 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…
BiographyHailu Mergia
Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
Mathume Joseph Phaahla was born on 11 July 1957 in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
BiographyMuziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba
Trevor Makhoba was born in Umkhumbane, Durban in 1956. His art is uniquely grounded in his experience of life and contemporary events in KwaZulu-Natal. He…
BiographyLeng Dixon
Leng Dixon was born in 1916 in Cape Town. He joined the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period…
BiographyClive Zamani Xaba
Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In…
BiographyJerry 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 Germiston…
BiographyMolly 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,…
BiographyJansie Lourens
After Barbara Hogan, Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials. Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus, were found…
BiographyDinah 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…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was…
BiographyVincent 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 Alicedale…
BiographyKim Ludbrook
Born on 9 June 1969, in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, Kim Ludbrook grew up in Kwa-Zulu Natal. After completing his national service he moved to England in 1990 and…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…
BiographyAleta Michaletos
Aleta Michaletos was born in Pretoria in 1952. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Pretoria in 1974. Since 1971 she has actively served on…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…