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… Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic … the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible freedoms of an artistic life within the … in metal work, performances involving nudism, craft skills and fanatical hobbyism, and wall-based ‘knittings’, gaudy …

… Mpumelelo Grootboom, controversial and liberal playwright was born in Meadowlands, Soweto in … one to grade seven. His Grandmother was the Principal and had a set path for Grootboom’s future. After completing … he was enrolled at Mokgoma High School in Meadowlands and attended for two years; grade eight and nine. His …

… He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng and Klerksdorp. His secondary education took place at St Peter’s School in Rosettenville, Johannesburg and he matriculated at the Healdtown Institute near Fort …

… at the Mooki Memorial School. His talent was recognised and encouraged from an early age by his teacher, Mrs E.L. Mooki, and later at Orlando High School in Soweto. Ephraim Ngatane's … Ngatane studied painting at the Centre between 1952 and 1954, under Cecil Skotnes. His experience of the …

… for music. Mahlasela made himself a guitar from tin cans and a fishing line and taught himself to play. He only started receiving formal … popular songs until his late teens when he began to write and perform his own songs. Mahlasela describes a childhood …

… to 1952 he was a pupil at St. Mary’s school in Orlando and went on to attend St.Peter’s (now St. Martin’s, Victoria) … in shaping political activists such as  Oliver Tambo  and Zakes Mphahlele. In 1954, when the apartheid government … matric. He began working at a motor spares dealer and later at a lampshade company, to save for a university …

… after his death,” Peter Jones remembers sadly. Steve Biko  and Jones were arrested in Grahamstown , but separated in … cells. “Although I was very anxious during all this time and feared for the safety of some of the many comrades that … inconsolability persisting for many years,” he says. Jones and Biko, both members of the Black People’s Convention , …

… December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her father was the nephew of Samuel Matshoba, … to Kagiso Township, Krugersdorp in spite of a long and partially successful resistance by the residents of … Munsieville. She initially attended Boipelo Primary School and later the St Francis College in Mariannhill, Natal (now …

… As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents … at the age of two. He was then taken care of by friends and family before being given to a Methodist couple who … parents informed him that he was their adopted son and he was not white.  At the age of 17 John Carlton …

… while attending Wittebome High in Wynberg, Cape Town, and through an uncle interested in the art form.   Lombard worked as a freelance photographer for national and international newspapers and was a member of the Vakalisa Art Association (isiXhosa … President Ramaphosa mourns passing of cultural activist and creative visionary Rashid Lombard , The Presidency, 4 …

… Lady Selborne in Pretoria where two teachers, Mrs Lekala and Mr Selokwane, noticed his talent for drawing and colour. After his father’s death in 1964 he accepted full responsibility for the house and family. He befriended the artist Andrew Motjuoadi …

… Jean Sinclair was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion … to enforce racial segregation in demarcated areas, and the Senate Bill in 1955 which led to the government being … she resigned as a serving member of the United Party and established the Women’s Defence of the Constitution …

… , but grew up in Zimbabwe . She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto . When she was 29 years old she decided to join the  African National Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to …

… was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a … of South African Congress of Trade Workers (SACTU) and a member of Central Committee of the South African … wing of the ANC. He first trained in Cairo, Egypt, Cyprus and finally in USSR. Dlamini was a member of the Luthuli …

… of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer. When her father performed at weddings and other functions he would encourage his daughters to … Nokwe household were taught how to sing by their mother and she introduced them to the music of  Miriam Makeba  and  …

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in … largely self-taught. He became a full-time artist in 1973 and mostly painted figures, flowers and landscapes using acrylic paint, pencil and mixed media. …

… helping in the publication of his Digest of Zulu Affairs and in his efforts to protect the Africans of Natal and Zululand against the threatening policies of both settlers and British administrators. Like her father, she became an …

… Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political … in 1950, she joined the staff of the Guardian newspaper and later became secretary of the Cape Town Peace Council. In … Charter was adopted. In 1956 Sonia Bunting was arrested and charged with high treason. After being held in prison for …

… APLA headquarters in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Between 1978 and 1983 Ngwenya served as APLA Platoon and Company Commander respectively. He served in the Operational Directive of APLA in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Botswana until 1994, after which he was integrated into …

…  Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near … completing secondary education she received a bursary and went to study for a BSc at University of Stellenbosch. … Illse proceeded to study for her Masters Degree in Maths and Education which she successfully completed. In 1940, …

… KwaNobamba (Weenan), KZN. As a boy he herded sheep, cattle and goats and while looking after these animals he used to construct cows, birds and people in clay. He attended school at Mkhumbane (Cato …

… of housing where they used photography to research people and their spaces. He then moved on to work at the urban problems research unit at UCT and produced a book with photographs called "Black Housing in … started to publish the ADA magazine (Architecture, Design and Art) in which he did most of the photography, which …

… Amato Textiles, he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage. He influenced other workers to fight for these rights and led a strike which was known as the fight for "Upondo … on, Cleopas Nsibande became a prominent trade unionist and was later a founding member of the  South African …

… Amato Textiles, he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage. He influenced other workers to fight for these rights and led a strike which was known as the fight for "Upondo … on, Cleopas Nsibande became a prominent trade unionist and was later a founding member of the  South African …

… the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce … his studies there  because of his political activism, and left the country to go into exile in Lesotho in 1980, … his degree at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), and joined the African National Congress (ANC) . After …

… was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and aggressive reaction from police. When Modise was shot at … struggle was paramount. She decided to leave the country and join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in exile. In 1976 she slipped … at www.gov.za   [Accessed 4 April 2011]| Modise, T and Curnow, R, Thandi Modise, a Woman in War in Agenda, No. …

… Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi Lombard. Faure received her early education at Eendracht School and the Pretoria High School for Girls.  Faure had a post in a firm of attorneys and was at the same time trained in English elocution by the …

… as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant public speaker, according to Eddie Roux, she married Douglas Wolton about 1925 and together they became prime movers in the Communist Party … 1920s. In mid-1929 she left South Africa with her husband and before her return in 1931, studied for some time at the …

… to be a medical doctor. He was a keen amateur astronomer and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of astronomers. … at the Cape. He immediately established an observatory and scheduled astronomical, meteorological and magnetic observations. Between 1834 and 1838 he worked …

… in Engineering in 1958. From 1959-1970 Herbstein lived and traveled extensively to England, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Zambia, and finally Scotland. From 1963 to 1965 Herbstein was … the Barak River, Silchar, India (400 ft. central span) and Thatta-Sujawal Bridge over Indus River, Pakistan. He was …