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Laurence Neill Nathan

… (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University, United Kingdom…

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1958

Jonathan Shapiro

… in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not imagine a career in architecture, so … work as a cartoonist began in earnest…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… in local and world politics - particularly politics of the Soviet Union as well as the relationship between … return to South Africa he was assigned to the…

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1952

Lesley Lawson

… One of the founding members of Afrapix , Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She … from Durban Girls College and attended the University of Natal,…

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1948

Randolph Hartzenberg

… a Higher Diploma Drama in Education from the University of Cape Town in 1989, educating has been a huge part of his professional life. He taught art at…

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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…

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1870-1946

Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo

… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s…

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … and taken to Pietermaritzberg where…

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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her … parents who were English immigrants…

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1949

Norman Catherine

… 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibitionin 1969. This exhibition consisted of oil paintings on wood,…

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting…

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1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton , … surveyor and her mother, Emmy…

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1938

Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils

… who had fled from the Czarist pogroms at the end of the 19th century.  His father was a factory salesman and … National Congress (ANC)  in 1960, serving as…

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1932-2016

Diana Mary Mitchell

… a liberal politician opposing the White minority regime of Ian Smith's Rhodesia. Her birth name was Diana Mary Coates … Diana travelled to Cape Town to…

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's … schools, he only began his schooling at the…

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1950

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

… Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as Mpumalanga Province. He was the second of six children,…

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1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the…

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1940

Mary Maria Burton

… born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved … as a journailst and in…

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1938

Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn

… living side by side. She was raised in the home of her grandparents with her older brother and sister. When … World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances…

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2018

Vondela Landingwe

… in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the … became involved in politics, and was…

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1948

Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla

… Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban…

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T W Thibedi

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, … he…

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1895-1951

Dorothy Ruth Boxall

… , South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South Africa. She studied under Prof. P.R. Kirby of the Department of Music at the…

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… he was already studying part-time at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. The influence and guidance of Katrine Harries (1914–1918) is discernable in his…

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1967

Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo

… 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna and Kanana Mbuyabo. He received his early education … gallantly against the…

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1940

Ebrahim Ismail Asvat

… from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of its Johannesburg branch. On…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo family moved to Evaton, a township…

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1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both … as Orange Free State)…

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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… School in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the City Council, working in the…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale … the Post newspaper in Johannesburg, a…

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