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| B-0148657 | biography | Leslie Schermbrucker | – | – |
| B-0148661 | biography | Barbara Schreiner | – | – |
| B-0148677 | biography | Garth Strachan | – | – |
| B-0149333 | biography | Rebecca Bunting | – | ✓ |
| B-0150328 | biography | Joey Fourie | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0150362 | biography | Pauline Podbrey | 1922-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0151906 | biography | Irvin Jim | 1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008267 | biography | Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0094430 | biography | Billy Modise | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0009265 | biography | Shaka Zulu | 1787-1828 | ✓ |
| B-0007786 | biography | Jane Alexander | 1959 | – |
| B-0007847 | biography | Willie Bester | 1956 | – |
| B-0149933 | biography | Siyamthanda Kolisi | 1991 | ✓ |
| B-0144774 | biography | Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | – |
| B-0144660 | biography | Alan McLeod Cormack | 1924-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0144659 | biography | John Maxwell Coetzee | 1940 | – |
| B-0141666 | biography | Denis Farrell | – | ✓ |
| B-0098966 | biography | Nicholas Hlobo | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0009272 | biography | Manfred Zylla | 1939 | – |
| B-0009230 | biography | Sue Williamson | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0009068 | biography | Penny Siopis | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0008870 | biography | Malcolm Payne | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0008712 | biography | Brett Murray | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0007927 | biography | Norman Catherine | 1949 | – |
| B-0094982 | biography | Jonty Driver | 1939 | – |
| B-0095023 | biography | Anne Heyman | 1961-2014 | – |
| B-0095076 | biography | Sylvia Neame | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0095146 | biography | Amy Thornton | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
| B-0095270 | biography | Indres Naidoo | 1936-2016 | – |
BiographyLeslie Schermbrucker
BiographyBarbara Schreiner
BiographyGarth Strachan
BiographyRebecca Bunting
Rebecca Bunting (nee Notlowitz) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic…
BiographyJoey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in Wellington, Cape…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933, the family immigrated…
BiographyIrvin Jim
Irvin Jim was born in1968 in the Eastern Cape in Motherwell. He became a university student, active in the anti-apartheid movement but poverty forced him to…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up…
BiographyBilly Modise
Billy Modise was born on 8 December 1930 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He received an Anglican scholarship which enabled him to…
BiographyShaka Zulu
Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the…
BiographyJane Alexander
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Jane Alexander is known for her figurative sculptures, often appearing…
BiographyWillie Bester
Willie Bester was born in Montagu, Western Cape, 1956. Bester’s mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape. He was born exactly 15 years after the Soweto Youth…
BiographyAlfred Nobel
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
Alan Cormack, the youngest of three children, was born in Johannesburg in February 1924. His father was an engineer with the Post Office and his mother a…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…
Denis Farrell
Denis Farrell’s aerial photograph in 1994 of a snaking queue of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his vote, earning him a Pulitzer Prize…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
Born in 1975 in Cape Town, Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning…
BiographyManfred Zylla
“I use art as a tool to confront reality. I use art as a tool to get to know the world in which I live. And I use art as a tool to experience my own reality…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
BiographyPenny Siopis
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
"First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness…
BiographyBrett Murray
Brett Murray was born in Pretoria in 1961. From 1985-1989 he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a Bachelor…
BiographyNorman Catherine
Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo…
BiographyJonty Driver
Jonty (C.J) Driver was born in Cape Townin 1939 and grew up with his mother and younger brother in Kroonstad. His father spent time fighting in North Africa…
BiographyAnne Heyman
BiographySylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin…
BiographyAmy Thornton
Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a…