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1915

Gopallal Hurbans

… Born in 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and was chairman of the…

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1948

Gordon Mbatha

… trained as a potter in the Ceramic Workshop at the ELC Art and Craft Centre, together with Ephraim Ziqubu, Joel Sibisi and L. Mabaso.  These potters all had…

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1972

Mujahid Safodien

… He matriculated at the Alexandra Senior Secondary School and went on to do a Graphic design and Fine Art Photography diploma at the Cape Town Technical…

B-0008977

1948

Justice Zac Yacoob

… from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he studied for a BA and from 1970 to 1972, completed an LLB at the University … (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal),…

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1913-1998

Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden

… printing house that printed The Guardian went bankrupt, and Fred Carneson approached him to take over the printing of … choice, as he was married to Ike…

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1875-1966

Walter Gilbert Wiles

… artist. He had an early art training in Paris in 1890, and arrived in South Africa  with his father in 1902. He … a living from his art. In 1915 he married…

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1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… students or lecturers at the university at the time, and her father, a member of the South African Communist Party … in the campus. Baleka was then sent to…

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1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

… was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, … with his first band known as the Band in…

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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… carved walking sticks during a visit to his kraal and commissioned him to produce a carved Madonna. This marked … carved relief panels, a three metre high…

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1901

John Stephen Gomas

… moving with his mother to the Malay Camp in Kimberly and becoming apprenticed to atailor at age 14.He joined the at the age 18 Industrial and Commercial…

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1932-2012

Sister Bernard Ncube

… in Lesotho , where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered the Companions Catholic Order, thereafter teaching until 1960. During the 1970s…

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1923

James “Jobe” Hadebe

… in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, he became a teacher and active member of the…

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior … school, the Edendale College. He was…

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1891

Captain Lancelot Andrew Ariba

… Egypt in 1891. He served in World War I with distinction and late studied architecture in Leeds and at the RA Schools 11 London. His ideals were based on the…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… person in 1957.  His father, an accountant born in India, and his mother were classified as Malay. As a teenager, he visited India with his father. Mosie…

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1947-2006

Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga

… Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at Steadville, … losing to…

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1923

Diamond Bozas

… Chelsea School of Art, London.  He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts. During the … for the establishment of the TEACH…

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1948-2014

Jan Willem Jordaan

… was born in Springs, Gauteng. He is a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, … Since 1973 he has participated in…

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Fani Mkhize

… Fanio (also documented as Fanozi and called Chicken Man) Mkize was born in 1950. When Mkize … his work outside the Old Supreme Court, Pietermaritzburg and at…

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1901-1983

Dora Tamana

… of a young girl growing up in rural South Africa. Tamana and her four sisters had to help work on their father’s plot, before and after school, where they…

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John S. P. Motloheloa

… (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting … Cape. He attended the 1956 World Youth…

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2018

Vondela Landingwe

… Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial … during the apartheid era. He was also a…

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1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… He was born and died at Ndwedwe, Natal. He attended school in the Ndwedwe … Award for Imaginative Work in 1985.  He was a printmaker and sculptor of wood. He…

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1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop of the African Methodist…

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1976

Edward Mzolo

… on 29 March 1983 regarding Mr Mzolo's death detention and death the minister of law and order,Mr Louis Le Grange,started 'There is no record that … person…

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1956-2009

Lucas Seage

… attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in Johannesburg in 1976. In that … same year he also attended Mofolo Art Centre…

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David Anderson

… The Rand Daily Mail , Pretoria News , The Sunday Times and The Star . His cartoons were politically loaded, and served the purpose of some of the…

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1942

Jeanie Noel

… time. She attended St. Theresa, a catholic primary school and when she reached high school she realized that all were … the other teachers in the staff room…

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1969

Lucas Radebe

… in the township. Soccer was one of his favourite pastimes, and his talent was soon spotted by Kaizer Chief scouts, who … in Soweto . Fortunately, no vital…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… he worked as a journalist at the Natal Witness , Drum and Golden City Post . In July 1964 he was held under the country’s 90-day detention law and later…

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