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1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… romantic female portraits painted between 1896 and 1902, one of which is exhibited here. He showed on all the recorded …

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1962

Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela

… management and gender mainstreaming. Madonsela was also one of the drafters of South Africa’s current constitution in …

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1935

Anderson Khumani Ganyile

… mere 638 yards fro the Transkei border.In August 1961 one evening,six South Africa plainclothes police forcibly …

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1952

Ari Sitas

… (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in …

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… since 1986. Edelstein soon established herself as one of Britain's foremost portrait photographers, collecting …

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1957

Mohammed Valli Moosa

… the South African Indian Council (SAIC), and in 1983 was one of the founding members of the Transvaal Indian Congress …

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1909

Isaac Bangani Tabata

… of a People, and served on the AAC executive. He was one of the founders of the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department …

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

… where she was interrogated for the next four days. One afternoon, she heard furniture being thrown about in the …

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… own ballets was recorded for future generations, and only one, La Famille, was seen, in 1967, in the early repertoire … others' recommendations, that there…

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1949-2024

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

… to the Legislature as a Member of Parliament and became part of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises. He was … (advanced manufacturing and arms…

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1892-1975

Haile Selassie I

… interest was in turning the country into a more modern one. He became stronger when he took control of the army in … reports claimed he had died of a natural…

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1925-2012

Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias

… he and his mother did not. The reply was that there was no one in South Africa suitably qualified in genetics to answer … at Wits Medical School until his…

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1894-1966

Irma Stern

… The exhibition was mounted post-humously in 1967. Irma was one of the most important artists to be produced by South … she once stated: ‘It is only through…

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1934-2015

Bob Hepple

… meetings in his home. On 11 July 1963, Bob Hepple was one of seven people arrested at Lilliesleaf Farm , Rivonia, … a factual account of the events leading…

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1930-2013

Ismail Jacob Mohamed

… secondary school in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. She found him part time jobs, scrubbing and polishing floors and gardening … she worked, so that he could pay…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… at the time, she decided to become a nurse. She went to one of the few hospitals that did train Africans as nurses …

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight children. As a young child, he already showed a …

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James Ford

… and he was forced to sell it for far less. He died in one of Cape Town's poor houses.  Curriculum Vitae …

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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… British handwriting expert as a forgery but found that no one could be held responsible for Mohapi's death. In her …

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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… was in the preservation and restoration of art. Prowse was one of the founding members of the New Group and was …

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1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… acclaim. It propelled his career and saw him dubbed one of the best post-Apartheid writers. After completing his …

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… painter, particularly of landscapes. He was perhaps the one who most pertinently adapted abstract art to the South …

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1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… for Women in Writing in August 2000. In April 2006 she was one of the first twelve recipients of the 'Memory is Our …

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1931-2015

Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena

… worked as a consultant in development studies. Oshadi is one of the founding members of Pitseng Trust Women’s Fund (an …

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… the South African Federation of Democratic Women and was one of the founders of the Non-European Soldiers` Dependents …

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1929-1994

Ruth Gosschalk

… born on 27 July 1929 in Muizenburg , Cape Town . She was one of four children. Her parents were immigrants from …

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1949

Norman Catherine

… in New York and Los Angeles, working on various projects. One of these projects was the animation for Stravinsky’s …

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… by the presence of mind, valour and loving kindness of one young man.” Rustomjee was prominent in Indian politics …

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… joined the PAC in 1965. On 10 February 1990, Desai became one of the first prominent exiles to return to South Africa. …

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1924-2009

Richard Owen Dudley

… 1943, Dudley joined the Anti-CAD Movement and also became part of the formation of the Non European Unity Movement … the 1960s, Dudley was banned and…

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