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1945

Paul Stopforth

… my relationship to the world.” Paul Stopforth is a painter and graphic artist who works in oil, gouache, ink, charcoal, metal, encaustic processes and…

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1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… available in Palestine. Therefore, he studied painting and drawing at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem and taught himself sculpting. In 1912 he visited…

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… working at his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady Selbourne, and later joined the staff of the Pretoria General Hospital. … Sharpeville Massacre , he was arrested…

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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle, an aspirant piano player. He first learned voice and guitar, before settling on the bass as…

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1931-2016

Lulu Dube

… She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline (neè Khumalo) Dube and their last surviving daughter. Her father, John, was … he wanted…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. … Rivonia trial in 1963. He returned to…

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J. Congress M. Mbata

… J. Congress M. Mbata was born in Johannesburg in 1919 and studied at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… Africa. He was born in Johannesburg,29  June   in 1918 and was educated in England, at Winchester and Oxford. He served in the British colonial service in ……

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1906-1968

Archibald Campbell Jordan

… Cape, where he obtained a teacher’s diploma in 1932 and a BA degree in 1934. That marked a new start of an exceptional academic, political and literary…

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1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… expelled SRC president Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu and several other students propagating the Black Consciousness ideology, Nefolovhodwe and Abraham…

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1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early … of African families from Alexandra Township…

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1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and later an executive on the mines in South African and Northern Rhodesia, currently called (Zambia). O…

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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola

… 12 December 1931. He lost both his parents at an early age and was raised by his sister. The family moved to Marabastad and then to Atteridgeville in 1942…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… at the St Cyprian's Anglican School in Sophiatown, and the Johannesburg Bantu High School (sometimes called Western High, and after 1963 Madibane High School…

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

… convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the early 1960s.  He came to South Africa in 1923 to work…

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du Plessis…

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1923-1989

Bonakele Milner Ntsangani

… in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh High in … his father worked. After school Ntsangani…

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1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to … relations…

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1975

Nicholas Hlobo

… in Cape Town , Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon … a bachelor’s degree of technology in fine arts in…

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1944

Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)

… to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle were both actively involved in the South African Communist Party (SACP) and as a result, her…

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1952

Aleta Michaletos

… served on the boards of several Foundations, Committees and Associations. Several of her artworks are housed in Local and International Museums as well as…

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1947

Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer

… born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp … In 1964 he matriculated at the…

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1936

Lionel Davis

… was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for … After his release he was restricted under…

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… who persuaded him to study in London. He studied in London and Paris and returned to South Africa in 1951 with a strong formalist … early paintings were…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… Africa for many years, working in the mining industry and served in the South African Air Force during World War … which time he became active in student…

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town , Western Province (now … From an early age, Isaacs was fascinated with science and was…

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1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

… art training; his father taught him to carve traditional and functional items such as utensils and headrests. His work was included in the 1985 Tributaries ……

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Dawid Kruiper

… Regopstaan Kruiper. Kruiper was the traditional leader and healer of the Khomani San, hunter-gatherers living in the … to the reconstitution of a San…

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1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a … As a child, he demonstrated a talent…

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1927-2011

Elsie Nair

… at the time. Nair then got a job at a clothing factory, and worked part-time as a dressmaker to supplement her … 1963, three years into their marriage, Billy…

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