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1930-1985

Molly Blackburn

… (PE). Blackburn was brought up with liberal ideas, and became aware of the problems facing South African black communities such as poverty, violence and…

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1954

Themba Daniel Mbongwa

… 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…

B-0008521

Jonathan Ngwenya

… APLA headquarters in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Between 1978 and 1983 Ngwenya served as APLA Platoon and Company Commander respectively. He served in the…

B-0008784

1913-2011

Ilse Naude

…  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…

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1943-2005

Ronnie Levitan

… 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…

B-0008325

1948

Randolph Hartzenberg

… who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance. Through his paintings, installations and performances, Hartzenberg produces works…

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1982

Mary Sibande

… MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist based in Johannesburg - is interested primarily in questions of the body and how to…

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1794-1879

Thomas Maclear

… 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…

B-0008359

1936

Moritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein

… in Engineering in 1958. From 1959-1970 Herbstein lived and traveled extensively to England, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Zambia, and finally Scotland. From 1963 to…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant public speaker, according to Eddie Roux, she married Douglas Wolton about 1925 and…

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1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… time she participated in various community organisations and youth structures of the Transvaal Indian Congress . She … education diploma, Adams taught for…

B-0007772

1970

Leleti Khumalo

… her mentor. Leleti enchanted audiences in South Africa and on Broadway when she appeared in Sarafina , a production … Roodt's film version of Sarafina! ,…

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1876-1932

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

… of the Lutheran Berlin Mission Society , near Barkly West, and it was there that Plaatje received his only formal … he found work as a postman, continued his…

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1957-2011

Gisele Wulfsohn

… specialising in portraiture, education, health and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the … In 1983 she became staff photographer for STYLE…

B-0009239

1956

Graham Goddard

… most of his life on the Cape Flats, in Wetton, Wynberg and, Belthorn. In 1980 his family moved to Mitchell’s Plain … a freelancer photographing mainly social…

B-0008102

1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in … an older advisor valued for his commitment…

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political leaders, her father was the … City Council in 1904. Gool attended…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… from New Zealand were being sheltered in his hometown, and the family was warned that there might be reprisals … someone to get a permit to take a boat out…

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1966-1987

Ashley James Kriel

… Ashley Kriel was born on the 17 October 1966 to Ivy and Melvin Kriel. He has two sisters, Michel Assure and Melaney Adams. He grew up in Bonteheuwel, Cape…

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a child, and this led to his socialist political development…

B-0009221

1884-1933

Richard Msimang

… of the Ohlange Institute, founded by John Dube in Natal and later attended the Healdtown Institution in the Eastern … in Taunton, Somerset. Queen's College,…

B-0008696

1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… maintained a balance between his own practice as an artist and his passion for teaching. He became a schools inspector and taught at the Hewat Training…

B-0008296

1814-1893

George Christopher Cato

… His family, silk weaving traders, came to the Cape in 1826 and settled in Grahamstown. When he was twelve his father was killed by an elephant in the Addo…

B-0007928

1925-1988

Dr. Connie Mulder

… on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started teaching History, Afrikaans and…

B-0008706

1949-2015

Clive Edward Butler Rice

… His education started at St. Johns College and from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University of Natal. Clive started playing cricket…

B-0008956

1925-1988

Cornelius Petrus Mulder

… on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started teaching History, Afrikaans and…

B-0068155

1958

Jillian Edelstein

… Jillian Edelstein was born and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She…

B-0008040

1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

… Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three … studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square…

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1924-1994

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

… joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1945 and then the African National Congress (ANC) in 1948, and the Leather Workers Union in 1949. As a…

B-0095282

1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… Durban . She grew up in Grey Street, with three brothers and three sisters. Along with her siblings, she attended the … earning a salary of 10 shillings.Her…

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