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1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

… a BA Honours in Afrikaans-Nederlands (cum laude) in 1962 and a Masters degree in Fine Arts in 1964. She completed her … taught Art History at the Rand…

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1972

Zanele Muholi

… collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg . Muholi’s work has … South Africa, exploring queerness,…

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1958

Jackson Mthembu

… in Kromkrans, a reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal, where he went with his … work in the mealie fields, at age…

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Molefe Pheto

… in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and eventually became a music teacher. In 1970, as a young … He was the director of a Black Theatre group…

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… for incitement. They enlisted the service of Harold Wolpe and Ismail Mahomed as their legal representatives and were acquitted after a six months’ trial…

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1931

Raymond Ackerman

… Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human and Rousseau. If you would like to contribute to this … Checkers chain, whose owners rewarded him with…

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1933-2020

Denis Theodore Goldberg

… Town , Cape Province (now Western Cape). His parents, Sam and Annie, had both been born in London, the children of … the Pale of Settlement to escape the…

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… Mpumalanga . She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula and Thembisile) of Ernestinah and Matthew Simelane. She  graduated on 15 October 1983 from … in…

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1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was…

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1943-2009

Winston Monwabisi Ngozi

… government continued its project of racial divide, and the enactment of the Group Areas Act was the most … he was seven year old. He then later tried the…

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1827-1903

Janet Burnside Soga

… Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots census indicates that … winder. Her father was a weaver her…

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1944

Kevin Dowling

… Kevin Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most … appointed the Bishop of  Rustenburg  on December 2…

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1914-1998

Archibald Jacob Gumede

… 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana Gumede  a former ANC president. He attended various primary schools in…

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1961

Graeme Williams

… completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him … take freelance assignments for local magazine…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport operator who ran a fleet of buses.He attended primary school and the…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and moved to Pretoria where…

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1903-1966

Edward “Eddie” Roux

… northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where … a pharmacy in 1907. Roux's father was…

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1949

Norman Catherine

… He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibitionin 1969. This exhibition consisted of oil paintings on wood, bone,…

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1965

Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko

… primary education at the Jabavu East Community School, and then attended St Matthews Roman Catholic School … Marianhill High School, in Pinetown, KwaZulu…

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1955

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

… ). She matriculated from Ohlange High School in Inanda and enrolled with the National University of Lesotho for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science…

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1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… in the Transvaal. At 18 Du Toit left the Platteland and settled in Johannesburg  in 1928, where she met trade … guidance Du Toit involved herself in trade…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his wife. His father's descent was English and his mother was of Swedish extraction. Norton's…

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200 people. … at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine…

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Piet Retief

… He was the fifth of 10 children of Jacobus, a farmer  and Debora Retief. His ancestors were from Provence in … left the farm. He settled in Stellenbosch,…

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1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who died on Monday night at … the jazz pioneers who played a pivotal…

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Jean Powell

… College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London and…

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1920-1973

Robert M. Resha

… on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal school and in his late teens went to work as a miner on the Reef. … After several years, he was dismissed…

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1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… farmers who were later forced to become farm workers and to give up their livestock.Dorothy attended mission schools until Standard Nine, and at the age of…

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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… 1950 to 1953. He also learned from the artists Carlo Sdoya and Sidney Goldblatt , and studied with Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Recreation … 1958. He…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… Makiwane was born in Soweto. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. … delayed his enrollment. Makiwane got…

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