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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg and while there she met members of the Communist Party. She later joined the party and became an…

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed the Natal-Transvaal border and was sentenced in…

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1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… born in Edenvale, South Africa on 13 April 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at…

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1947-2010

Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo

… in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing career in choirs and concert groups while still at school. Mhlongo was … Her 1963 version of My Boy Lollipop became a…

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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… in Limpopo province. Kekana’s father was a carpenter and lay preacher who died when Patja was young. Kekana made … Ernest Mancoba , had taught at the…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his … to their compliance with the apartheid system. He…

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1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… born in KwaZulu-Natal on  29 June 1952. She attended Magog and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the … high school in Durban . She then…

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1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

… was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon arrival in South Africa in 1930, he … one of his parents. He smuggled his way into…

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1886-1955

Richard Victor Selope Thema

… his education when he ran away from school in 1901 and joined the British troops stationed in Pietersburg during … where he first worked as waiter in a…

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1927-1978

Philemon Pearce Nokwe

… a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St … probably the Anglican school…

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1943-1989

Dr. Abu Baker Asvat

… This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The … His sacrifices were not in vain as his principles,…

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1950

Christian Malcolm

… Durban, the Croydon College of Design, Surrey, England, and at the UN(P) where he lectured in printmaking.  He has participated in group exhibitions in SA…

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1947

James Gavin Younge

… gaining a national Art Teachers Diploma; between 1972 and 1976 he studied philosophy and art history at UNISA and gained a BA degree. In 1972 and 1973 he…

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1874-1932

Michiel Hendrik Nesser

… teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter Scott and Jacob van Lennep. Having been inspired by these…

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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a marriage that lasted 10 years. She…

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1949

Linda Komape

… began work in a factory in 1975. Here she joined the Metal and Allied Workers Union , and participated in a strike in 1976. After this she was fired, and…

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Dr Gomolemo Mokae

… of a Methodist minister, Reverend Modisagarekwe Michael and Lotlamoreng Elizabeth Mokae. His parents migrant … at Baragwanath Hospital (now Chis Hani…

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1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… of the  African National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in the Transkei and…

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1958

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe

… in KwaZulu- Natal , South Africa. She has been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 21 years. Gcina Mhlophe has written … many children's…

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1911-2002

Errol T. Shanley

… of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents and Anna Else Bernhardt born in Hamburg Germany. He attended Epson Road Boys School in Greyville…

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

… in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing about … the 1952 Defiance Campaign . He finished primary…

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1891-1965

Dr Silas Modiri Molema

… a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief Montshioa of the Barolong boo … Molema wrote an…

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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

… He attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift  and studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Nhlengethwa ……

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from a working-class … as a reporter for Ilanga newspaper,…

B-0008741

1937-2002

Justice Gizenga Mpanza

… attended evening classes on politics from Monday to Friday and mass meetings that were held at Beatrice Street. As a … Congress (ANC). Inspired by the…

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1894-1966

Irma Stern

… in Schweizer-Reneke , Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her … her first exhibition but that…

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1913-2009

Nöel Robb

… third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife, Charlotte Constance Barrow. Her father commanded a destroyer in the First World War and…

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1909-1961

David Pratt

… David Beresford Pratt was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the … two years old. He developed…

B-0068322

1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his family would be moved to Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain … removals period. His father, however…

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