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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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1932-2002

Soromini Kallichurum

… same university for her research into lung diseases in the Black population, and went on to pursue a career in … by academic medicine and a salary…

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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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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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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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1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… that was a byproduct of the early contact between black and white.” His father, James Henry Abrahams Deras was … paper intrigued him, as he had never seen a…

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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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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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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…

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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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1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

… 1988. The two major ones were ‘Historical perspectives of Black art in South Africa’ and ‘Eleven contemporary Black South African Artists’. Better known…

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1949

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi

… by Otto Lundbohm). 1975: DAM (Art SA Today). Durban (Black Expo, organised by Don Joseph, an art teacher in … with Bongani Shange). 1979-80: NSA””tour (group…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… went on to become a composer of note and became the first black South African to release an album.  Gwangwa gained … an Oscar and a Grammy. i It received the…

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1930-2005

Hamilton Naki

… from those around him. Mr Naki was already a hero, as a black man of scant education who had trained himself to carry … his role was gradually embellished in…

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1960

Penelope Jane Dunlop

… Afro-pop in 1983 which expanded their audience to include black people. It was the popularity of their music in the black townships which earned her the nick…

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