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Gaur Radebe

… Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National…

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1904

Simon Tyeku

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the … mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…

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1940

Gille De Vlieg

… a journalist. After a short period in Katanga Province of the DRC she moved to  Johannesburg  in 1963, where her … her marriage to Iain disintegrated just…

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1936-2008

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

… in the Eastern Cape. He later moved to the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where he qualified in BSc … wing,  Umkhonto we Sizwe  in 1962. He…

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1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

… My mother wanted a better life for her children, a kind of insurance against poverty by trying to give me a prestige … the prison and farm conditions in the…

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1870-1955

Allerley Glossop

… England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She … to paint. She worked, so the Press noted, …

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1938-1990

Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana

… the Broadway yanks and later the Four Yanks. In a turn of events that would alter his music career, Pukwana met … group, the Blue Notes. This would prove to…

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Elias Monare

… [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955  at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ in the Vryburg district … related to his banishment, Monare was…

B-0080861

1941

Ray Berman

… he won the award for ‘Most Promising Artist’ at the Artist of Fame & Promise Exhibition in Johannesburg. This motivated … Paris, France. Upon his return to…

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1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA in 1949 and … Sekhuthe in 1953, he went on to do a PhD…

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1931-1964

Suliman “Babla” Saloojee

… Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. … with the police. This enabled him to trace…

B-0064871

1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near … in Johannesburg and they lived in…

B-0068232

1955-2016

Emile Maurice

… Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, … received an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Art,…

B-0121732

1945-2008

Phumzile John Gomomo

… on a farm in Adelaide on 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and … School. He left school in standard 6 …

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1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and … Ngcobo studied at Adams College, Fort Hare,…

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1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

… near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple and close associate of…

B-0008918

1953

Vukile Ntuli

… 1978 to 1983 he studied for a BA(FA) at the University of Fort Hare. Ntuli undertook further studies at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1984 to 1986…

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Ben Khoapa

… States where he learned about the political conditions of African Americans. On his return to South Africa, Khoapa … the Black Consciousness Movement. He…

B-0073075

1911

Sam Kahn

… in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), and…

B-0008225

1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black South…

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1966

James Hamakwayo

… were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 under the 180-day clause (section 215 bis…

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Percival Mdala

… found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton, the rector of St. George’s. When the Bishop discovered that Percy was a qualified teacher, he asked him to take…

B-0125761

1939

Chief Malebogo

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the … Boers as…

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1902-1972

Rosa Hope

… Simmers (qv.), for its "extraordinarily strong sense of drawing" ( Cape Time s 23.8.1937).  Hope had trained at the Slade and Central Schools of Art, London,…

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1908-1993

Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial

… 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught. The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in…

B-0008065

1970

Heidi Saayman

… Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the Santam … Technikon while working as Photographer at…

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1956

Willie Bester

… mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic … Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Pretoria Art Museum;…

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1926-2008

Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa

… for a short time and worked as clerk but devoted much of his time to organizing for the ANC and the Cape Youth League, of which he became a provincial…

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1965

Phila Portia Ndwandwe

… Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami…

B-0073820

1944

Subbiah Moodley

… Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), recruits. He was…

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