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… in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni … in England.  She was able to broaden his musical horizons and encouraged him to focus on singing opera.  He moved on to taking singing lessons with Amy Parkinson and acting lessons with Taubie Kushlik, making his stage …

… in South Africa. She joined the Communist Party in 1946 and in 1953 she was a founding member of the Congress of … of 156 leaders of the struggle, she became fundraiser and secretary of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and later, in 1961, for the Johannesburg branch of the …

… Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at school although there was no art teacher. He left Mtwalume High School in 1979 and received formal art training at the Open School, Durban in 1982 and the Little E. Theatre, Durban in 1983. In 1986 he was a …

… father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as chairs and mealie stampers. During his youth, Mohl drew with 'pepa' on rocks and made clay objects. He attended primary school in Dinokana … Nevertheless, Reverend Hale soon recognised Mohl’s talent and convinced his father to allow him to draw. Only patch of …

… at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had relocated in 1900 from Russia … she worked in advertising agencies, later in publishing and journalism. In South Africa she became active in … was also a founder of the South African Peace Council and was its national secretary until the organisation’s …

… 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser for the  National Party  (NP), and Member of Parliament for Vasco from 1953 to 1961. The De Villiers family moved to Caledon and after his first year of schooling they moved to …

… on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their … to the University of Edinburgh where she studied medicine and completed her degree in 1944. Thereafter she worked for … she served in both the Department of Social Preventative and Family Medicine and the Department of Gynaecology and …

… From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. In 1955 Noni Jabavu returned to South Africa … , of Fort Hare, as well as relatives in the Eastern Cape and Johannesburg . The Ochre People, first published in 1963, …

… province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following traditions passed down from her mother and grandmother, she learned traditional Ndebele wall painting and beadwork as a child. She became an expert in executing … . [Accessed 22 January 2015]| Orford, M (ed.) 2006, Life and Soul: Portraits of Women who Move South Africa , Double …

… in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent her childhood growing up in Nieu Bethesda. She went … on to obtain a teacher's diploma in nearby Graaff-Reinet and, around that time, married Johannes Pienaar - a teacher, dramatist and, in later years, a politician. The marriage was brief, …

… near Caledon. An outstanding intellectual, philosopher and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof and proceeded to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she …

… Jan Bouws, accomplished musician, composer, lecturer and author, was born in the Netherlands in Purmerend on 28 … He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a lecturer at the … this time he married Juliana van Heijningen, a writer and researcher focused on compiling encyclopaedias. They had …

… in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a young boy after moving to …

… extraction, Louis Washkansky came to South Africa aged 9, and became a grocer in Cape Town’s Greenpoint area. Washkansky saw active service in WW2 in East and North Africa and Italy. His wife Ann, he met and married after the war. He …

… a wealthy merchant. Kasturba had two brothers, one younger and one older than her. Her father was a friend of Karamchand … Karamchand Gandhi’s father. In 1876, Gokuldas Kapadia and Karamchand Gandhi reached a preliminary agreement for Kasturba and Mohandas’ betrothal, both seven years old at the time. In …

… education. Born into the privileged world of servants and country clubs, Benson’s early ambitions were a far cry … General Hospital (now the Steve Biko Academic Hospital), and Lucy Stubbs, a descendant of 1820 settlers in the now … of the time. At around the age of eighteen, the young and ambitious Benson left her home in search of a career in …

… Mozambique, then under Portuguese rule, to escape poverty and came to South Africa with her sons. She settled near Pretoria where she worked as a domestic servant, and put her two sons through school. Ephraim Nkondo, the … become Curtis’s father, completed high school at La Maria and went on to qualify as a teacher at the Bantu Pretoria …

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner.  Else and Deneys were active members of the Liberal Party of South … of the  Liberal Party of South Africa , the  Black Sash  and National President of the National Council of Women in … Day 27 April .  South Africa: Jacana Press| Goldblatt, B. and Meintjes, S., 1996. “ The 1960s ” in  Gender and the …

… as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her community and South Africa’s liberation struggle as a whole. Moreover, … endeavours. He dedicated his autobiography partly to her and therein expressed great admiration for her and gratitude …

… on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard … student, who spoke about the effects of apartheid and resistance to apartheid.Kearney taught at Marist Schools; …

… president FW de Klerk , ‘a thick-set man with heavy jowls and intense blue eyes who was renowned for his deadpan sense of humour and his quick wit’. He was a passionate Afrikaner Nationalist … to apartheid – the African National Congress (ANC) and its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe , the Pan Africanist …

… Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple , was a trade unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence and Aid Fund The young Hepple attended Jeppe Boys High School …

… Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan Daniel and Louisa Steyn. Steyn spent his early youth in the Utrecht …

… 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and anthropologist at the University College of Fort Hare. … education at Lovedale School in Alice, Eastern Cape, and then enrolled at St Peter's Secondary School in …

… Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 and lived for some time with J.P. Vyas in Pretoria, to study … went to Pretoria for negotiations with General Smuts and stayed almost two months in the same house. Identifying … labourers, Gandhiji ate only once a day, wore only a shirt and loincloth, slept on the floor and walked barefoot several …

… Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda , a school teacher, who later became a lawyer. His father was a founding member and later became the President of the African National … in the Eastern Cape, Mda packed his clothes in a tin trunk and crossed the Telle River into Lesotho. On the other side …

… the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi and San people were systematically dispossessed of their … was tied to a wagon wheel, whipped with sjamboks, salted and left in the sun for hours after a disagreement with his … the farms, which in many instances were forced to work on, and went to live with the Xhosa.  Together, the Khoi and the …

… Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand enlarger advertised in the under-R20 … for circulating work, developing collaborative projects and learning from peers.” (Email interview with Meintjes, … the Afrapix photographers’ active engagement in exploring and developing ways to use their photography as a means to …

… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry first by the English and then by the Dutch). A young Krotoa, of about 10 or 11 … 'Islands' by Dan Sleigh (Secker and Warburg, 2004) "Translated from the original Afrikaans …

… mother, Khadija Jassat (nee Haffajee), was born in Bardoli and his father, Essack Jassat, came from Takoli. His father was at various times a hawker and a shopkeeper.Dr Jassat matriculated from the Johannesburg Indian High School and was one of only 12 black students to be accepted by the …