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… Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most … important abstract painters. He first became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a young boy after moving …

… to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942. At the age of 15 even before he finished his … his mother did not. The reply was that there was no one in South Africa suitably qualified in genetics to answer the …

… Ruth Gosschalk was born on 27 July 1929 in Muizenburg , Cape Town . She was one of four children. Her … of Jewish Women , and her father worked as a market agent. In 1946 Gosschalk worked with the Zionist Socialist youth … for the settlement on  Kibbtzim  (communal forms) in Israel. That experience in Israel resulted in her loss of …

… Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant family … an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in Ferreirastown, …

… The NCAW was established in 1933 by a group of women in Kimberley. It amalgamated a number of smaller welfare … Movement and this drew criticism from the more radical black organizations and individuals like Josie Palmer of the …

… After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing … attempted adultery or related immoral acts” between black and white people. The Act in essence criminalised … of the Non-White Peoples of South Africa . 27 June, The Black (Native) Laws Amendment Act No 54 is passed. 11 July, …

… Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine … His father came from Beira, Mozambique and passed away in 1942. His mother, who came from Brits, passed away in 1975. He completed his first six years of schooling at the …

… Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school, …

… Abdool Kader Hassim  was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling around 1941/1942 in Dundee at …

… of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the youngest of … His father was a Minister and teacher who had left Malawi in 1904 and his mother was the first African woman to teach …

…   Barry Anderson Richards was born on 21 July 1945 in Morningside, Durban in Natal. Richards played cricket for Natal at his early … teens and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior team in the early sixties. In 1967 he took a contract with an … , Cape Town: Francolin, p. 223.| www.safrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/sports/richards.htm …

… Jo Thorpe was born in 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town . She grew up in Mooi River and completed her …

… Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born  20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha … his fellow student, he entered Fort Hare University and in 1923 became the first African to obtain a B A at a South African institution. In 1925 he was appointed first African head of Adams College …

… Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time political organiser and journalist. In 1926 he joined the CPSA, becoming one of its most loyal …

… David Anton Ndoda ‘Mfenendala’ Xaba was born in Sobantu Village in Pietermaritzburg.  He left school in the late 1940s and went to work in Durban.  He joined the …

… Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from … the Yeoville Boys’ primary school and Athlone High School in Johannesburg and matriculated in 1946. He became an activist in his early teens, joining …

… the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal … or husbands - were second-class citizens for many years. Black women were obviously doubly disadvantaged as a result … role in this prejudice. Customary law, for instance, gives black women the status of minors and excludes them from …

… the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal … or husbands - were second-class citizens for many years. Black women were obviously doubly disadvantaged as a result … role in this prejudice. Customary law, for instance, gives black women the status of minors and excludes them from …

… Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957, he went to work at a shirtmaking factory until 1960. …

… Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Cape Town. He attended Piketberg High School where he matriculated in 1939. After being awarded a B.A. he enrolled in 1942 for an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. …

… Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town . Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the … Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In Evaton, Gow was immersed in an ethos of music and culture, …

… Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South …

… Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a …

… "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick making business.He attended high school in Kroonstad ,then moved to Johannesburg in the …

… Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew … from the University of Fort Hare with distinction in English in 1948.  His studies in law at the University of …

… Sydney Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1922. He matriculated in 1938 at the King Edward VII High School. In 1941, he …

… before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa in 1910. He was considered a liberal in the South African context but he also held fairly … saw himself as South African rather than as an Englishman in South Africa, and became increasingly anti-imperialist, …

… Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A …

… Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle was born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where Sotho and Nguni languages were …

… Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of … painting and beadwork as a child. She became an expert in executing murals as a teenager, using a widening range of … Mahlangu: On a D.C. Street, a South African Master Paints in the Tradition of Her Tribe,’ The Washington Post 4 …