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1975

Nicholas Hlobo

… recently. Since 2000, he has shown pieces in at least one and as many as ten exhibitions every year, at venues in …

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… voices opposed to apartheid . In 1979, he published one of the most-quoted anti-apartheid poems, “In Detention”, …

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1818-1953

Emily Isabel Fern

… she was then taught pastel drawing by George Smithard. As one of the first students at the Johannesburg School of Art, …

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1878-1942

Paul De Groot

… Groot also ventured to produce original Afrikaans plays, one of them Die misdade van die vaders by A. du Biel. He was …

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Chauke Family

… are represented in the Campbell Smith Collection by one figure each. They are small, simple, stylised, frontal …

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… who were guarding Ngoyi’s house guilty of burning to death one of Ngoyi’s visitors a young Azanian Peoples Organisation …

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… an academic at Oxford where upon being accepted he became one of the founder members of a group known as the "The …

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… the Indian community into two more or less equal halves, one sector opposed to government policies and the other doing …

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1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… trial which began in December 1977. Convicted on only one charge-recruiting for PAC on Robben Island, he was given …

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1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… for her role in the defiance campaign and was sentenced to one month of hard labour. In 1956, Fatima participated in the …

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1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… preparatory work for the  Congress of the People  and was one of its speakers at Kliptown outside Johannesburg in June …

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… headmen to protest against rehabilitation. According to one historian, “in 1963 the Engcobo and Umtata districts were … habits ("his path is strewn with…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13 children (11 boys and twin girls). He was active in … leader whose name will forever be…

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1924-2020

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

… pamphlets from South Africa that his cousin gave to him. One of the pamphlets was written by Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo about … Reddy points out that the Council on…

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1946

Franco Frescura

… de Villiers Graaff , of having a broad yellow streak as part of his political make-up; and of describing Parliament … it was suggested to him that he might…

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1940-2023

Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad

… 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he matriculated … ANC’s National Executive Committee …

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1909-1985

Moses Josiah Madiba

… 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna … Potgietersrus Bantu Secondary School. In…

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1933-1986

Samora Machel

… he worked in the fields. He studied to become a nurse, one of the few professions open to Mozambican Blacks at that … all the things we have done, the most…

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… and communist movements. Four years later, he would become one of the 156 men and women accused in the Treason Trial … that she would be placed in an…

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1946-2006

Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley

… Student Organisation (SASO), Moodley was accepted as one of the members, but held no formal position, as he was … The two later developed a friendship and…

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… from the Johannesburg Indian High School and was one of only 12 black students to be accepted by the Medical … its efforts to co-opt pliable members of the…

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1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… time is not far away when we will all be back together as one family. I believe I will live to see that day”. When … She died on Christmas Day 1993 at the…

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Percival Mdala

… Percy would go down to the river and carry them across, one or two at a time - and at the end of the day, he’d carry …

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1939

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe

… prison. He created three sculptures based on these dreams, one of which was presented to Mandela in November 1990.  …

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1902-1978

Jan Bouws

… Schoolvereniging in the east of Amsterdam. One of his responsibilities was to conduct a children's …

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1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract …

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Connie Mofokeng

… time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the hundreds detained. While in detention she was …

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… which he is still a member up to this day. In 2006, he was one of the ANC candidates for the Aganang Region in Limpopo …

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Anna Tempo

… set up a house for them in Napier Street. During World War One many young men came into Cape Town when their ships …

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1795

Sobhuza I

… their way of life and philosophy a great deal. Apparently, one night shortly before his death, he had a prophetic …

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