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… Manor on 7 October 1936. His father was a newspaper vendor and his mother a housewife. His family was forced to move to … to Sastri College in Durban where he matriculated and continued his tertiary education at the University of … of his university tuition took place at Sastri College and at the City Buildings in Lancers Road in Durban . At that …

… South Africa in May 1950.  His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had … a shop on the Cape Town Foreshore [Plaut Interior Design] and his mother was an artist working with paints and in fabrics. His mother was born in Cape Town but grew up …

… my relationship to the world.” Paul Stopforth is a painter and graphic artist who works in oil, gouache, ink, charcoal, metal, encaustic processes and lithography. He was born in 1945 in Johannesburg, South … Pretoria till 1978. That year he returned to Johannesburg and taught painting and drawing at The University of the …

… Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and president of the African National Congress (ANC) . Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Father Trevor Huddleston also taught at St Peter's … matric, Maimane, was made to choose between journalism and studying medicine at Fort Hare University in the Eastern …

… Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous farmers. After his primary school education in … qualified as a teacher in 1901. He soon gave up teaching and became a court interpreter. In 1908 he began theological … the so-called Non-European Unity Conferences between 1927 and 1934 where Africans, coloureds and Indians discussed …

… born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled labourer and religious minister. At his young age Gqozo was sent away … to Kroonstad where he attended the Phomolong Junior and Bodibeng Senior High School. In 1972 he dropped out of …

… 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 … he became fluent in Sesotho. In 1952 he resigned his post and lead the first batch of white resisters in the  Defiance …

… 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 worked in P.E. and started a jazz group. He was an accomplished musician. … the African National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1940s and joined the South African Communist Party at an unknown …

… 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 2002 and continued living in Johannesburg . Hlobo completed a printmaking apprenticeship in 1998, and his work featured in his first exhibition the same year. …

… 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 between the SACP, the African National Congress and the trade union movement. He was one of the leading …

… 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 with the deaf and in the 1930s headed the Athlone School for Coloured blind … being in the Cape for 15 years he moved to Witwatersrand and he opened the first workshop for blind Africans in South …

… 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 attended Baanbreker Primary School and Voortrekker High School. After matriculating in 1956 he …

… Paul Herman Robinson was born in Durban and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at … He did his apprenticeship in commercial art at the EP and Commercial Printing Company. In 1929 he went to England and attended the Bolt Court School of Process Engravings and …

… Colony from 1907 to 1910. Abram had married a Scotswoman and Percy had married Ella Fichardt, of a family of … English speaking. Bram, who was brought up in an Afrikaans and English-speaking home, regarded himself as an Afrikaner - … College in his hometown. Bram excelled at tennis and rugby. In 1928 he represented the Free State as scrum …

… expelled SRC president Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu and several other students propagating the Black Consciousness ideology, Nefolovhodwe and Abraham Onkgopotse Tiro emerged as leaders of the … When Tiro was also expelled Nefolovhodwe organised and led more protests which subsequently led to his own …

… 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 career. Jordan taught for 10 years at the … Free State (now Free State) where he mastered seSotho and was elected President of the African Teachers' …

… him. He completed his Primary education at Cala Village and obtained his Matriculation in 1980. Ndondo then … police regularly raided the home of the Ntsebeza brothers and the bookshop in Cala was a target for squads of security … Shabalala, Transkei police Sergeant Gciniso Lamont Dandala and askaris Silulami Gladstone Mose and Xolelwa Virginia …

… 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 influenced by Post-Cubist trends and the School of Paris. His studies under Fernand Léger …

… 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 Ficksburg High School, and he went on to study for his B Comm and LLB degrees at the University of the Free State. As a …

… served on the boards of several Foundations, Committees and Associations. Several of her artworks are housed in Local and International Museums as well as Public and Corporate collections. She has travelled extensively and …

… 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 a banning order and house arrest until 1976. In 1968, while still on Robben … school leaver’s Senior Certificate. At the Evangelical Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift in 1980 he worked toward a …

… 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). After leaving school he … soon became chairperson of the PAC in the Vaal River area and made a substantial contribution to the recruitment of …

… 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'Malley … thus joined the  South African Defence Force (SADF)  and became a pilot. After serving as a navigational …

… 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 to Diepkloof and Meadowlands was intended to mark a complete annihilation … at Madibane High School was Abiel Lebelo, a prefect and member of the  South African Students’ Movement  (SASM). …

… 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 where he enrolled at De Jong Primary School and completed standard six in 1947. He proceeded to Hofmeyr …

… Regopstaan Kruiper. Kruiper was the traditional leader and healer of the Khomani San, hunter-gatherers living in the … to the reconstitution of a San community in the Kalahari and the transfer of vast tracts of land to the San people. He addressed the United Nations in Geneva on the rights and situation of the indigenous population in 1994 and how …

… 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 for scholarship and, upon completing his secondary schooling at Government … soon left that position to pursue a bureaucratic career, and served as a federal administrator for the Bonny Island …

… 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 was arrested and charged with treason and sabotage. He was sentenced to 20 years on Robben Island …

… 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 … out for the storage of medicines but they are much larger and carved in one material. They are important not only for …

… in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in a few small towns in … She attended schools in Argentina, Brazil,Switzerland and France,trained as a journailst and in 1959 went to work …