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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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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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1955-2021

Cecyl Esau

… could not witness the defiant stand the people took in the face of large-scale intimidation by the state and the clamour …

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1945

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

… clouded his career prospects: he had organised for a black speaker to address the students on campus – something … the authorities disallowed; he wrote…

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1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… 1961 (Republic Day exhibition ”” group). 1962 DAM (Black Artists). 1963 Venice, Italy (Biennale). (Republic … African Art). 1981 Jabulani Standard Bank,…

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1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… as a 15-year-old in 1961, attracted by the vision of a black-ruled South Africa. Arrested in May 1963 for … law by correspondence, he became associated with…

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1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… Her father was a garment worker who had become the first Black person to work on the cutting floor - work that was … interest in opposition politics due to…

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1939-2025

Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn

… corporate businesses and as a co-founder of large black-owned enterprises. Throughout his distinguished career, …

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… war crimes in Vietnam. He co- founded the Congressional Black Caucus. After two years in this position, he started a … S. (2018), RONALD VERNIE DELLUMS (1935…

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… war crimes in Vietnam. He co- founded the Congressional Black Caucus. After two years in this position, he started a … S. (2018), RONALD VERNIE DELLUMS (1935…

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1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

… other African women acted as interpreters and advisors of Black Sash on the pass law issues. In 1983 she became a …

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Deborah Jean Budlender

… alongside more than 20 other people working in the nascent black trade union movement. At the time, she had just …

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1956

Susan Shabangu

… she was an organiser and administrator for the Amalgamated Black Worker's Project; a representative of the Transport and … Committee; organiser and…

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Percival Mdala

… to close.Percy - for many years the only properly trained black educationalist in Knysna - transferred to Thembelitsha … retired within a year. He remained…

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1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… Africa in 1901, Maxeke as one of South Africa's first Black woman graduates. Maxeke was greatly influenced by AMEC … the ‘woman question'. As an early…

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1925-1961

Frantz Fanon

… he noticed that white French women refused to dance with Black soldiers who fought to free them from Nazi occupation. … Frantz wrote a thesis titled ‘The…

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Myron Peter

… The ASH was part of the county wide initiative of black activists in the 1970s undertaking self-reliance programmes spearheaded by the Black Community…

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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… South Africa Students (NUSAS) executive members and in the face of opposition from the Stellenbosch SRC he embarked upon … caused.” [2] 1976       Mapetla…

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1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

… Musica that they made him a director. There were not many black directors at the time and it was an uphill task … doors not only for himself but also for all…

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… homeland’ of Gazankulu. The apartheid government wanted Black and White people to live separately, so they set certain areas apart for Black people. Thus it…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… of protest against the impossible educational methods that black students were exposed to.  Thereafter he moved between … exhibition in London which sought…

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1859-1921

John Tengo Jabavu

… he found a newspaper under the title “Imvo Zabantsundu” (Black Opinion). This was the newspaper that Jabavu had … African progress.Jabavu was highly…

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… he gained his B.A. degree in journalism, he was the first black South African to be awarded a B.A. through private study at Unisa and the first black South…

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… instrumental in organising the interim structure of the Black People’s Convention (BPC) before its official launch. … he served on Robben Island . Mangena…

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1949

Nowongile Cynthia Molo

… awards. She currently serves as a council member for Black Economic Empowerment at U-Vimba Bank. Molo is also the …

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