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Hannah Lurie

… She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London (1962-1965). She has held numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in…

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1845-1909

Jan Hofmeyr

… A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a … the  Jameson Raid  that severed ties between Afrikaners and the Britons. Hofmeyr…

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Alan Wieder

… books include Voices from Cape Town Classrooms, Teacher and Comrade, and most recently Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Although he…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… morning of a match to help prepare the wicket, watering and rolling it so it would bake hard on the surface and had to nail the playing mat down to the pitch…

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1892

Herbert Henry Curson

… was completed at Michaelhouse in Balgowan, KwaZulu Natal and he received his professional training at the Royal … from 1911 to 1914. During this time he won…

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1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… in the higher echelons of South Africa's civil service, and Yutar settled for a job tracing defaulting telephone … Rivonia Trial began his career as a lawyer…

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1948

Paul Michael Sibisi

… at Adams College, he acted on the advice of Masondo and applied to study at Ndaleni Educational Training School … Training College, Oswatini from 1969 to…

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1948-1996

Vuminkosi Zulu

… of thirteen Zulu attended school in Kranskop for six years and completed Standard VII at Kranskop High School. From 1970 … before returning to Rorke's Drift…

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1920-2000

Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo

… the Doornfontein School of the American Board of Missions and then went on to the Inanda Seminary, a private girls’ … because of the low salaries that…

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1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… in the Natal African National Congress (ANC)in the 1950s,and a defendant for the entire. He attended Marianhill … 1948. In the company of  Arthur Letele ,…

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… at a furniture store. In 1969, Tlali had written and completed a novel titled Muriel at Metropolitan, a … into several languages, including Japanese, Polish,…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… London University-affiliated Premier School of Journalism and Authorship. At the same time, he worked as a messenger in Soweto and wrote poems based on…

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1946-1972

Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe

… From 1968 to 1970 he was a pupil at Rorke's Drift and studied under Azaria Mbatha . In 1970 he settled at a … He had a close working relationship with Dan…

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1946

Deton (Tito) Zungu

… or art training. As a teenager he made clay models and in 1957 he began drawing with coloured pencils and later experimented with ballpoint and felt-tip pens…

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1983

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

… degree as well as an Honours degree in Political Studies and International Relations. In 2004, Shivambu obtained his … he was elected to the Student…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a…

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1929-2000

Esme Bodenstein

… members. The Society organised lectures, youth festivals and discussion groups as well as a night school for Africans. … was a member of Federation of South…

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1926

Kesval “Kay” Moonsamy

… In the early 1950s he served as treasurer of the NIC, and in 1955 he was elected its vice-president. Moonsamy was … participating in the 1946 Passive…

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1777-1855

Sir. Richard Bourke

… During his army career he was promoted to Major-General and proved himself as an excellent and impartial administrator. Bourke was subsequently sent to ……

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1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… part-time art classes at the Natal School of Art, Durban, and he decided to advance his studies in Britain by taking lessons in drawing and painting at…

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1986

Luvuyo Mgobhozi

… armed wing of the ANC.  Thabani Memela, Blessing Mabaso and Mbongeni Zondi were accused of attacking and killing an IFP councillors wife, Mrs Sabelo in…

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1975

Tikkie Sibisi

… Tikkie Sibisi was born in Greater Nigel in 1975 and grew up in Duduza Township with a single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his…

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1920

Lorna Peirson

… From 1941 to 1950 she taught at schools in South Africa and from 1951-1952 at the L.C.C. schools in London. On her … art at the Umpumulo Training College,…

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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… had been ostracized by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to have his twin children put to death, as … from 1941 at the University of the…

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1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II and, on returning home, became a member of the Springbok Legion and the Congress of Democrats (CoD)…

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1932

David Phaswane Mogano

… in Pietersburg. He arrived in Johannesburg in about 1950 and worked as a cook in a hotel. During 1959 he studied with Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo at…

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Unknown-Unknown

Samuel Chibane

… Samuel Chibane was born in Pretoria and became involved with the PAC as a student at Wilberforce … was arrested for arson, but the evidence was inconclusive…

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1930

Stella Madge Damos

… of Coloured people, she organised a protest meeting and was charged with assaulting the police and fined £20. She was a member of the South African Congress…

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Logan K. Ntlabati

… committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and educated at Fort Hare. He taught in the Cape and the Orange Free State, becoming principal of the…

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1932-2013

Louis Luyt

… Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the … he took over the Presidency of the Transvaal Rugby Union and…

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