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… Roome was born in Pietersburg, Northern Province. He studied at Rhodes University and obtained a BA(FA) in 1974 and an MA(FA) in 1975. Roome then became a lecturer in painting and history …

… David Phaswane Mogano was born on 2 September 1932 in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal, Mogano was educated at Mogano Higher Primary School in Pietersburg. He arrived in Johannesburg in about 1950 and worked as a cook in a …

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free 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 …

… Australia, 1881; died Johannesburg, 1953. Fern arrived in Johannesburg as a child in 1890, and was taught oil painting by a nun at End Street Convent. From 1899 to 1904 her parents lived in Port Elizabeth where she had art tuition at the Technical …

… This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg . Muholi’s work has been recognized for its radical emphasis on marginalized communities in South Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, …

… parents moved to London, he went to school at Goldolphin in Hammersmith. Jameson went for a medical profession at the University College Hospital, London in January 1870, where he excelled, becoming a Gold Medalist. … Officer at University College Hospital. After practising in London, his health broke down from overwork in 1878 and he …

… was born on 28 October 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing career in choirs and concert groups while still at school. Mhlongo … Boy Lollipop became a national hit and her career started in earnest. Mhlongo performed in musicals and as a soloist …

… among painters’. Page always used a limited colour range in his work, mostly employing either tempera or acrylic. The … passed from relative to relative, even spending some time in an orphanage in Dundee. As an adult Page moved from one job to another, …

… Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka was born in Johannesburg and received his early primary education … secondary education was at Headltown near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape. He read for a Bachelor of Arts degree … as a teacher at Healdtown before moving to Thaba Nchu in the Free State. After a while in Thaba Nchu he returned to …

… Born 4 April 1922 in Pinetown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Attorney prominent in the South African Indian Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of G M Naicker . In the …

… Alex Moumbaris was born in Egypt to French parents and later became a naturalised … He worked as a trade unionist and came to South Africa in 1973. His wife was detained during the same period of his … charge. Moumbaris was charged under the Terrorism Act in January 1973. He was found guilty of conspiring with the …

… Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of … s/2011/01/Wim-Botha-_and_-Daniel-Naude-at-Michael-Stevenson-in--January-2011.aspx …

… Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto.  He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high … 2011|Mail and Guardian, (2004). New SACP leaders chosen in Gauteng from Mail and Guardian online. Available at …

…   Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 with her husband, Dr Hobart Kay, finally settling in …

… Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in …

… Born on January 27 1935, at Onashiku shaLaban near Oshakati in Oshana Region, Shikomba joined OPO in 1959 and subsequently Swapo in 1960. He joined the South West Africa Liberation Army …

… James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and … the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover in the formation of the Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Africans in 1921. Aggrey received his education in Ghana (then the …

… Alexander, N. An Ordinary Country. Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa . Pietermaritzburg, … of Natal Press, 2002 Bond, P. Elite Transition. From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa Pietermaritzburg , …

… In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers …  was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established the tradition of … theatre and resistance art during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …

… 20th and 21st century, a number of people lost their lives in South Africa amid liberation struggle. However, some of … border raids. Other events emerged from wage strikes. In the early 1990s, the political violence claimed a number … The residents were protesting against rent increases. 1985 18-19 February, 18 protesters are killed by the South …

… Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African …

… Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The … well as a host of artistic personalities. Gregoire left SA in 1935 to study at the Heatherley and Central Schools in …

… siblings, she accompanied her father on diplomatic trips in Europe and Africa, and developed an avid interest in current affairs. Her parents also greatly encouraged debate in their family and, possibly because of this, she developed … The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: 1. Satyagraha in South Africa . Volume 4. April 1926. p.34. |H. Hughes: The …

… existence. Football, like other sporting disciplines in South Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South … Coloured Football Association (SACFA) formed the anti-apartheid South African Soccer Federation (SASF). In  1958 … Soccer League (PSL). Once processes for the dismantling of apartheid were set in motion, the four historically separate …

… vessel. This type of sailing vessel's were built from in the 16th to the 19th Century for the trade between Europe … and Dutch vessel's. English Indiamen appeared late in the 16th Century and eventually came to dominate the … those last three survivors. The wreck was excavated in 1985 under a National Monument’s Council permit. …

… It was established on the Farm in the Free State Province , named "Keerom" (which means "Turn around"). Settlers occupied the Area in the 1830's and the Town was proclaimed in 1874. It became … The camp Cemetery was declared a National Monument in 1985 and currently holds Provincial Heritage Site status. It …

… Professor Sir Bob Hepple was born on 11 August 1934 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Alex … Aid Fund The young Hepple attended Jeppe Boys High School in Johannesburg from 1945 to 1952 and then the University of Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA degree in 1954 and a LLB degree, cum laude , in 1957.  He was …

… Sangweni was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1947. He worked for many years for a carpet company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. …

… of their internal subtleties and the decisions taken in their execution, they are fine art. South Africa : The … such base improvisation was necessary to make sense of an apartheid-tainted existence. Goldblatt^Òs approach to this … sensitive as it is wry in contemplating the realities of apartheid discrimination and the ways in which people had to …

… the  All African Convention  (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later practised law at Lady Frere. He was involved in the AAC from 1936 and was instrumental in bringing the …