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1943

Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi

… in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … Sebidi was from a humble family, and…

B-0009003

1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at … home in Ocean View, when she shared some…

B-0121850

1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… be moved to Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain towards the end of the forced removals period. His father, however,  passed … first time on a portable record player,…

B-0125398

1913-1970

Debi Singh

… a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was … in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker…

B-0009064

1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended … while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the University…

B-0007839

1912-1957

Gladstone Xala Tshume

… Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a … he was employed in a pharmacy and…

B-0068642

1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the court of the Gcaleka paramount chief, he was elected to the district council…

B-0008979

1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a … degrees from that university, that she received her…

B-0009231

1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate … degree in law at the Turfloop University …

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David Anderson

… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and…

B-0068170

1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… in May 10 in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he completed a … His doctoral dissertation, published…

B-0008334

1955

Michael Davis

… Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art…

B-0093744

1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and … agriculture at Adams College and then beginning…

B-0068294

1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the…

B-0096556

1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

B-0008145

1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… National organiser of the  African National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1950s and … was born in 1923 in the Transkei and was a member of the Tembu royal house…

B-0008232

1939-1997

Enos Mabuza

… Headmaster in 1964, and by 1968 was appointed Headmaster of Khumbula High School in White River. He was appointed Inspector of Education in 1972, to become…

B-0008354

1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him … through the London University-affiliated…

B-0098835

1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… she wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She … home after her bus was stopped by police. The…

B-0067957

1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was approached by a friend who asked him to become a member…

B-0076346

1958

Michael Sedgwick

… with a teacher, Virginia Engel, who was a former member of the Drama Society (Dramsoc) at the University of the Western Cape. She acted, in some of Adam…

B-0009005

1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up … estate outside Oxford where he…

B-0007807

Madi Gray

… she was eleven years old. As a child, Gray became aware of the difference in the treatment of people, based on colour. She enrolled at the University of Cape…

B-0068704

1938-2016

Judith Mason

… Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She … 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the…

B-0122647

1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school education at Orlando West High … for the Transvaal and South Africa…

B-0121056

Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments of King Shaka. The family later moved on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) in the Sotho region of…

B-0121675

1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

… near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … exhibition with two nyamisoro figures …

B-0008479

1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… she was sent to school in Lenasia , an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg . It was while she was a student at the University of Venda that her mother…

B-0067467

1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… taught at Mthethomusha High before joining the Department of Education in Pietermaritzburg. Mkhize was a member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) but…

B-0064851

1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… he won a scholarship to read English at the University of Ibadan. He taught briefly at the University of Lagos after graduating in 1965. But he soon left…

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