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1916-1993

Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda

… He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and Gxumekelana Charles Mda, a headman, peasant farmer and shoemaker in their district (Herschel)…

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Trineke Weijdema

… In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands … . The whole of southern Africa became a zone of…

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern … Cape. He was the son of Henry Francis…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali and Wally Mongane Serote, the group is often referred to as … of the big cities’. These are not…

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1960-2015

Ohm Collins Chabane

… Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of 17 he joined the ANC underground. Chabane … Chabane also went to Angola for…

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1926-2009

Gerrit Viljoen

… was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his … He also attended the Afrikaanse Hoer…

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1926

Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen

… was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his … He also attended the Afrikaanse Hoer…

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1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school education. During the  1976 uprisings , … nevertheless managed to complete matric…

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1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… abroad for two years, working as a manual labourer and farmhand. He later applied his farming experience to win … activities, joined the Young Christian…

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1922-1993

Rahima Moosa

… Trafalgar High School in Cape Town . As a teenager, Rahima and her identical twin sister, Fatima became politically … 1943 Rahima became the shop steward for…

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1964

Thinus Mathee

… in photography. He photographed for the school newspaper and continued his interest whilst serving in the defence … Elizabeth Technikon. He studied…

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1962

Guy Tillim

… a collective of South African photographers, in 1986, and since then has seen his work widely published. His … with foreign media groups, such as Reuters …

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), he began acting and producing both in South Africa’s previously disadvantaged community and in mainstream theatres…

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1954

Lele Jacob Motaung

… Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners  and banned persons in South Africa .p.68 Lele Motaung was … on 7 November. The re-trial took place…

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… State on 3 January 1892. After his father died, Tolkien and his mother went to England settling in Birmingham. On 14 November 1904 his mother died leaving…

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1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh … Africanism. In 1973 he was released with a …

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1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and later at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where … into contact with leprosy patients…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… His own experiences of mistreatment by the Security Police and having to produce a pass wherever he went, further … school years, Mabasa participated in the…

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… When Dadoo came to India in 1925, they met once again and as friends became interested in the nationalist movement in India . They met Gandhi in 1925 and…

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1954

William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr

… a BA in Economics (1976), an MA in Economic History (1984) and an LLB (1989) [ii] . Through this time, his research … Depression [iii] . Having completed his…

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1947

Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

… Transvaal (now Limpopo ). Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele were primary school … Lukas van der Merwe, gave her mother…

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1933

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

… worked as a teacher in Nebo District in Sekhukhune and a lay preacher in the Methodist church. His mother … attended primary school education very early in…

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Bisho Jarsa

… off the coast of Yemen, then taken round the African coast and placed in the care of missionaries in South Africa. "We were overawed in her presence and by…

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1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he completed a Ph.D. in … of the Phelps-Stokes Commissions on…

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1969

Kim Ludbrook

… his national service he moved to England in 1990 and studied photojournalism from 1993-1994 at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, England, finishing with…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, and at…

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1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… citizen of Austria, Kibel could not enroll as state pupil, and was taught privately. Between 1923 and 1925 he studied painting under Prof. Pick-Moroni in ……

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1939

Wopko Jensma

… Degree in Fine Arts with Botshabelo Training College and the University of Pretoria, and majored in sculpture. During this period, he also worked as an…

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1934-2013

Ian Berry

… assistant to Ansel Adams, vouched for him as an immigrant and taught him the technical basics of photography while … he met Jurgen Schadeberg, another…

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1929-2011

Margaret Nash

… 1 March 1929.  In 1931, her family moved to South Africa and settled in Durban , Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal ), where … 16 she enrolled at Rhodes University for…

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