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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… at Fort Hare, which was the only university opened to Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans as well as students … was the only teacher training art…

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1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… system to which all other ethnic groups, be they Boer or black, should either aspire or be subjected’. Milner was also … in the Transvaal, but Kruger was…

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1953

Diana Ferrus

… 1999. She then pursued her Masters; her thesis topic was Black Afrikaans women writers: the joy and frustration of the … stories on fathers and daughters – a…

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1851-1930

William Henry Beaumont

… defining boundaries for territorial segregation between black and white people. In March 1916 the Commission … to white people and which ones were to be…

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1940

John Maxwell Coetzee

… story which, through the experience of a mentally disabled black man, traces the tensions of a ravaged country, and … of times past to explore the perpetual…

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1944

Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)

… growing up, she had had very little to no interaction with Black people, therefore, her opinions on Black people were largely based on what she had been…

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1941-1997

Welcome Mandla Koboka

… several group exhibitions as well as solo shows. The 1981 ‘Black Art Today Exhibition’, held in Soweto, included his … In the 1990s Koboka taught art at the…

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Ben Khoapa

… became involved with Steve Biko and other youth in the Black Consciousness Movement. He then became director of … years. He returned to South Africa and…

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1948

George Msimang

… (solo). NSA, Durban (solo). 1971: Washington, DC, USA (Black Artists from Africa). 1973: DAM (Art SA Today). 1975: … Awards: 1970: UCLA African Art Magazine…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… and returned to South Africa.  A founder member of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC), Dr Mokoape was detained in … On 13 September 2008, he was elected…

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Paul Ramadiba Mokgathle

… characterised, ”even in poor clothes” by the “dignity of a Black nobleman,” he says “he resisted what he believed to be …

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1963-2023

Tiego Moseneke

… was the President of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Black Students Society (BSS). The ANC says it will remember …

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1990

Nancy Graham Dick

… of Women (NCW)’s African Affairs committee and the  Black Sash.  As a result of her activism, the security police … Member of the Textile Workers Union,…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… brief was to focus on non-political issues reflecting black urban life. Drum covered sport, crime, sex and the … challenging the apartheid system, the…

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1936-1988

Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo

… support his mother and two sisters. Naidoo was the first Black person to present a radio broadcast on the then SABC’s … his efforts, swimming was soon being…

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… ballet and her rigorous defence of her principles in the face of criticism enabled many that would otherwise not have …

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1871-1946

John Langalibalele Dube

… kind of initiative aimed at advancing the rights of Black people when he returned to South Africa. In August 1900 … action. The aim of the NNC was to find a…

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1956-2003

Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba

… on his work locates it within the traditions of black art in KwaZulu-Natal, as an extension of the work of … lucid”. At the same time his work is a good…

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1943-1989

Dr. Abu Baker Asvat

… attempt to integrate the sport in South Africa, allowing Black teams to play White teams on White playing grounds. … Transvaal Indian Congress, while Asvat…

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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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1958-2021

Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy

Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…

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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…

B-0008597

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…

B-0009025

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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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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