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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… believed to be a curse. Malahele-Xakana became the first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa … Fund to study medicine. Medical…

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1927-2019

Adelaine Florence Hain

… citadel of apartheid, fighting for civil rights. In local black townships like Atteridgeville, Lady Selborne and … at her while she bathed, she was haunted…

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… of the large number of Lewis’s portraits of rural black South Africans, as well as his portraits of black soldiers during World War II, reveals much about…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… who founded and also became the editor of the first Black-owned newspaper in 1884, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black opinion). His father was also a founding member of…

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1934-2003

Buzwe Stanley Mabizela

… him, because I wanted to see the man, wanted to see his face. And he had a son with us at Fort Hare at that time.... …

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1932-1968

Benson Tsele

Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli…

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1920-2000

Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo

… Kadalie . At the time, the ICU was the most influential Black union in the 1920s. She became involved with the … Garment Workers’ Union in 1946 and was one…

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1927-2005

Kalushi Drake Koka

… alongside Steve Biko  and became a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement  (BCM). He was appointed as … formed in 1971 which precipitated the…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and … PAC had been officially banned, and the…

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1937-2004

Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe

… VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr Maseko, one f the first black handicrafts teachers in South Africa. Rakgoathe … Durban (solo). 1974: (solo). Diakonia…

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1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

… During the riots the ICU yase Natal was the strongest black organization in Durban, but the moderation of its … and an honorary position as a revolutionary…

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1947-1972

Mthuli ka Shezi

… Mthuli ka Shezi was a leading Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) intellectual. He was also … when he became vice president of the BCM affiliate, the Black…

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1958-1995

Nithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender

… Students' Organisation (SASO-the pro-liberation voice of black students) and had been recruited into the African … self-help projects and programmes to…

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1926-2024

Zuleikha Mayat

… comprising of women from all walks of life – Black, White, Christian , Hindu , Jewish , and so on … Mayat did in her personal capacity. She worked with the…

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1971

Josiah Thugwane

… Josiah Thugwane was the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He … SA thlete and first Black South African athlete to win an…

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… Reginald Dhlomo (R.R.R.), a prominent Zulu writer among Black South Africans in the early twentieth century. … Dhlomo himself writes that “Natives prize…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… African women. In 1955 she became a founder member of the Black Sash in Cape Town and became even more politically vocal. The Black Sash then became involved…

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1948-1985

Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele

… school fees, so he left school. In 1971, he joined Mhloti Black Theatre. Years later, he wrote: "From time immemorial, Black talent in South Africa was white…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… queens is seen in the Campbell Smith Collection in a black and white version. The same image is an example of an … inked various sections of the plate in…

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1931-2015

Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena

… to wait for an ambulance inside her home, as she was Black. She was a trained nurse before she became involved … Reverend Beyers Naude . In the early 1970s…

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1939

Wopko Jensma

… spoke openly about the injustices that were experienced by Black people during apartheid. His poems Once and Now , … of apartheid laws, in Where White is the…

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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… studying at Turfloop, he was drawn to the philosophy of Black Consciousness, and became active in the South African … in the Eastern Cape   . After students…

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1957

Saleem Badat

… at considerable personal cost. At first aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement , and then joined the United … appointed Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes…

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1929-2024

James Matthews

… and the townships, sprawled across the Cape Flats to which black people were forcibly removed. Having witnessed the … became, through his poetry, a leading…

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1933

Audrey Coleman

… politics while bringing up her sons, she later joined the Black Sash , eventually becoming national secretary.  In … Anti Apartheid activist, member of Black…

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Jack Monamudi Matsepe

… withdrawn in 1967. *In 1962, people from a ‘swartkol’ (‘black spot’), Maleuskop, between Groblersdal [Limpopo …

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1918-2013

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

… in 1938 and as such, formed part of a very small number of black pupils who had attained a high school education in … the university’s ultimatum to take his…

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1946-1972

Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe

… Week). Brooklyn Museum and Public Library, New York, USA (Black SA Contemporary Graphics). 1977-9: West Germany - tour … Print makers). 1981: Jabulani…

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1885-1970

Kerr Alexander

… year of his retirement. Kerr's influence in the sphere of black education was not confined to his college or even to South Africa. In 1922 he embarked on a…

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1881-1971

Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane

… of the organization. Mahabane increasingly tried to attain Black unity. With the Coloured leader Dr A. Abdurahman  he … end of the 1920s Mahabane was anxious…

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