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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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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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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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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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1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age, and already at the age of five, she had tourists paying to … Brenda, saying that her voice was…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… she went on to produce a body of work that is timeless and still relevant today. Largely neglected during her … Durban, such as the Children’s Hospital at…

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… the Beyei. Mpho attended Moremi Primary School in Maun, and after completion went to further his education in South … on the Defiance Campaign  in 1952, Mpho…

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1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… [iv]  From 1960 she attended Durban High School [v] and in September 1963 she commenced tertiary education at the … in her class. [viii] In 1974 she…

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest of seven children of … own land.Mangena completed his…

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1964

Menzi Mcunu

… Gallery.  In 1991 he painted a mural at Hebox, Hammarsdale and another for Gadaleni High School, Isandhwana, and in 1992 a mural for Ilanga. In 1990 he went…

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1948-2002

Bonginhlanhla Plummer Mbokazi

… he attended classes in art run by the Technikon Natal; and in 1994 he attended printing making workshops run by the Durban artists, Greg Hayes, John Roome…

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1874-1965

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

… Morning Post during the South African War of 1889-1902, and was taken prisoner in Natal when the train that he was … under the command of General Louis Botha…

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1885

Nehemiah Tile

… South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal education at Boloto. He became a lay preacher and in 1880 was ordained…

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