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1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… that was a byproduct of the early contact between black and white.” His father, James Henry Abrahams Deras was … paper intrigued him, as he had never seen a…

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1974

Hezekiel Sepeng

… Boys High School. An uphill battle to register the Black youth in an Afrikaans school eventually succeeded. Once …

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1977

Lawrence Ndzanga

… speaker said 'He died for the liberation of the black people, and the circumstances under which he …

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1991

Siyamthanda Kolisi

… Solly Tyibilika, another cult hero from PE and the first black African to score a Test try for the Springboks, against … moment in South African rugby as…

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1935

Don Mattera

… child. It was during the campaign against the removals of Black, Coloured, and Indians from Sophiatown, that Mattera … he, like many others, became involved…

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1954

Vincent Baloyi

… 1974: Sweden (Rorke's Drift). African Art Centre, Durban (Black Expo). American Embassy, Pretoria. 1975: City Hall, Durban (Black SA Today). DAM (Art SA…

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1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… spread beyond the 2.8 million "Coloured people" to both black and white opponents of apartheid. In 1981, various black Reformed churches founded ABRECSA (the…

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1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… critic of mainstream photojournalism, and of the ways black South Africans were represented in the bigger … of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1998: Black…

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1953

Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale

… and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black township's political upheaval. Sexwale attended St … During the late 1960s and 1970s he was a…

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1921-1984

Peter Becker

… two elder brothers, he spent a great deal of time with the black workers on his father's farm. It was in their company … Africa to gather descriptive…

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1947-1974

Abram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro

… anticipated. In May 1972 there were a number of strikes on black campuses across the country in support of Tiro. By the beginning of June all major black…

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1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

… 1988. The two major ones were ‘Historical perspectives of Black art in South Africa’ and ‘Eleven contemporary Black South African Artists’. Better known…

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1949

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi

… by Otto Lundbohm). 1975: DAM (Art SA Today). Durban (Black Expo, organised by Don Joseph, an art teacher in … with Bongani Shange). 1979-80: NSA””tour (group…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… went on to become a composer of note and became the first black South African to release an album.  Gwangwa gained … an Oscar and a Grammy. i It received the…

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1930-2005

Hamilton Naki

… from those around him. Mr Naki was already a hero, as a black man of scant education who had trained himself to carry … his role was gradually embellished in…

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1960

Penelope Jane Dunlop

… Afro-pop in 1983 which expanded their audience to include black people. It was the popularity of their music in the black townships which earned her the nick…

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1939-2025

Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn

… corporate businesses and as a co-founder of large black-owned enterprises. Throughout his distinguished career, …

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… war crimes in Vietnam. He co- founded the Congressional Black Caucus. After two years in this position, he started a … S. (2018), RONALD VERNIE DELLUMS (1935…

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… war crimes in Vietnam. He co- founded the Congressional Black Caucus. After two years in this position, he started a … S. (2018), RONALD VERNIE DELLUMS (1935…

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1981

William Khanyile

… of local trade unions where he highlighted the plight of Black South Africans under Apartheid. On 1 May 1980, Khanyile …

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Deborah Jean Budlender

… alongside more than 20 other people working in the nascent black trade union movement. At the time, she had just …

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1956

Susan Shabangu

… she was an organiser and administrator for the Amalgamated Black Worker's Project; a representative of the Transport and … Committee; organiser and…

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1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

… other African women acted as interpreters and advisors of Black Sash on the pass law issues. In 1983 she became a …

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1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… 1961 (Republic Day exhibition ”” group). 1962 DAM (Black Artists). 1963 Venice, Italy (Biennale). (Republic … African Art). 1981 Jabulani Standard Bank,…

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1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… as a 15-year-old in 1961, attracted by the vision of a black-ruled South Africa. Arrested in May 1963 for … law by correspondence, he became associated with…

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1945

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

… clouded his career prospects: he had organised for a black speaker to address the students on campus – something … the authorities disallowed; he wrote…

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… all the lads.' In the poem she articulates concerns for black rights, education and morals, especially with respect … whom she castigates for fragmenting…

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1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… Her father was a garment worker who had become the first Black person to work on the cutting floor - work that was … interest in opposition politics due to…

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1930-1978

Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum

… again in 1960 and 1963. Despite Sewgolum’s success, as a black golfer he was not allowed to play professionally in his … embarrassment, while to the…

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