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… to a Greek father, an engineer named Michalis Tsafandakis, and a Mozambican mixed-race mother, his housemaid, Amelia … was sent to live in Egypt with his paternal grandmother and aunt while his father sought a Greek wife. He returned to Mozambique, aged seven, and lived with his father, his step-mother, Maria, and …

… white people around, he became exposed to Xhosa culture and music. During World War II, his father joined the Navy and Chris moved to stay with his mother in Cape Town. It was … education in uMthatha where he became exposed to mbaqanga and kwela styles of music. Sometimes Macgregror joined groups …

… of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started Vlakplaas, a farm 20km west of … Government in South Africa.In 1963 he followed his father and work in the post office.From 1980 to 1981, Coetzee was a … Edelstein J. (2002). Good & Evil Stories and photographs from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation …

… a painter, although she frequently works with video and installations. Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, … found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the politics of the body. She has also continually engaged with the shifting social and political situations in South Africa. There is a sense of …

… his career as an assistant to Jurgen Schadeberg in design and production at Drum magazine . 1959 Jürgen Schadeberg … (he joined  Drum  magazine as their official photographer and layout artist in 1951). 1960 Albert Newall receives a … struggle against white minority state. The term Cultural worker was now adopted. The German photographer, Tim …

… the town of Ladysmith. The area was established in 1972 and its population at the time was in the region of 50 000. … built in two parts, a formal section with rented housing and a site and service section where people could build their own …

… to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and father, a classical piano teacher. He matriculated at … Stellenbosch, obtaining a BA degree majoring in geography and history in 1964, a secondary teachers' diploma in 1965 and a BA (Hons) in geography in 1965. It was at university …

… Nkosi was born in Chesterville, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at local schools before enrolling at M. L. … magazine , which was founded in 1951. In his book Home and Exile and Other Selections (1965), Nkosi describes the Drum staff …

… The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally … who lived in Black spots were told to leave their places and later removed forcefully to make way for White people. … Makou, as well as Matsobane Legoabe. They hosted workshops and recited works by established poets like Aimé Césaire, …

… as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up in the KwaMashu township outside Durban . He … young brother who was South Africa’s ambassador to Russia, and his older brother Pius Langa , who served as chief … was killed in 1984. Langa attended Gardner Memorial School and Sibonelo High School in Durban. After completing high …

… School where he did his education, but later left school and started working. He became active in a number of … community organisations including religious, sports bodies and civic structures. Dawood was detached from the Defiance Campaign and Treason trial in the early and late fifties respectively, …

… Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape … she accompanied her father on diplomatic trips in Europe and Africa, and developed an avid interest in current affairs. Her … University of Cape Town Manuscripts and Archives Department. BC330: Molteno Murray Papers: …

… eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John Hodgson. An immigrant from Yorkshire, Jack’s … father died in a mine accident. Having to fend for herself and the children as a waitress, Jessy was just able to retain … her baby daughter, Doreen, having to place Jack (aged 4) and his brother George in an orphanage until she remarried a …

… was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela Ngobese who was Senzangakhona's sixth and ‘great wife'. [i] Chief Senzangakhona married sixteen women in total and had fourteen known sons, daughters however were not …

… an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay." William Kentridge was born in 1955 in … Enwezor, Okwui in Truth and Responsibility. A Talk with William Kentridge , in …

… where she attained her Senior Certificate in 1941 and then went to the University of Cape Town from 1942 to … with a BA degree with her main subjects being English and Nederlands and Afrikaans.  After graduating she joined the Cape Times in …

… 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall Campbell. She was educated at St. Anne's Diocesan College in Natal and at St. Leonard's School in Scotland where, in her own words, she acquired "an enthusiasm for History, and a love of historical places".  She was a book collector …

… . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. She … spent her holidays in Scotland throughout her school years and as a consequence developed a deep love of and interest in her Scottish roots. At the outbreak of World …

… He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De Klerk went to school at Potchefstroom and from 1923 to 1926 studied at the Potchefstroom University … Christian Higher Education where he obtained a BA degree and Higher Education Diploma. He was actively involved in …

… to Islam in 1968 during his pursuit for a more peaceful and fulfilling spiritual life. Ibrahim is known for his influence in jazz music as a pianist and composer, where some of his own earliest inspirations … led the choir. Here, traditional African Khoi-san songs and Christian hymns would be the birth of his love for music. …

… Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and his twin sister were born on 2 March 1940 in  Pretoria  to Barbara Zacharia Hagen and Petrus Johannes Slabbert. Slabbert attended the  Marabastad  Farm School, later Eertsegoud Primary, and the Pietersburg Primary School, matriculating from the …

… father, Todd, was a renowned jazz pianist, composer and journalist who shot to fame in 1958 with his musical King … Kong helped launch the careers of singer, Miriam Makeba, and musician, Hugh Masekela. Todd Matshikiza was also a … massacre, the banning of the political organizations and a state crackdown on the media, Todd Matshikiza went on …

… physician, he schooled at St John's College, Johannesburg and then commenced medical studies at Witwatersrand … South African Air Force at the outbreak of World War II and served in North Africa and Italy as an aerial photographer, having developed a great …

… five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub treated the sick by providing free medicine, shelter and food. His generosity inspired two of his sons to build a … had any formal education, but taught himself Arabic, Urdu and Gujarati. At the age of 14 he decided to undertake a …

… Sisulu was one of five children born to Bonilizwe and Monikazi Thethiwe in the Tsomo district in the Transkei … on 21 October 1918. She was a nurse, a political activist and council to her husband former Secretary-General and Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC), …

… 1903. His father, James Paton, a Scottish immigrant and civil servant, came to South Africa in 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of … was highly educated, but his father was deeply religious and a strict and controlling parent that used corporal …

… October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and  Mohandas Gandhi . He had three brothers, with whom he … regarded places like Phoenix Settlement (founded in 1904) and Tolstoy Farm (founded in 1910) as important training centres and Manilal was regarded as one of the first experimental …

… Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War  Mattheus Uys … as an author, poet, playwright, translator, broadcaster and lecturer. He also served as contributor for a number of … Die Vaderland, The Rand Daily Mail, Die Suiderstem and Die Burger. Besides his native Afrikaans, he communicated …

… 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in English, and he only entered school at the age of 12, when his elder … an affinity for botany under Professor R. Marloth and met his future wife, Sybella Margaretha “Isie” Krige, the … www.wikipedia.org  [Accessed 31 July 2009]|Giliomee, H. and Mbenga, B. (eds) (2007) New History of South Africa. …

… Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s from Pokroy, a small village in Lithuania and his mother, Andzia Maisels, from Lodz in Poland. He attended Marist Brothers’ preparatory and high school and received his undergraduate and graduate …