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1916-1968

Leng Dixon

… the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period in Paris in … into elemental, yet animated line…

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1980

Clive Zamani Xaba

… offered at the African Art Centre at the Durban Institute of Technology under Langa Magwa and Thando Mama. Barely out of high school, Xaba in one of his…

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Abner S. Mtimkulu

… it later to join the independent Bantu Methodist Church, of which he became president. In the interwar period, he … many conferences, including the December…

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1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… Amid the many explosions carried out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto, who … Soweto. Petros Molefe and Benjamin Ramutsi…

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young Indians impatient with the divisions that had up to … Africans. In 1939 he was elected to the…

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… in 1954-1956 and an ANC organiser at the Congress of the People in Kliptown June 1955. After being released … as an organiser for a textile union and as…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… together they became prime movers in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she … for some time at the Lenin School in…

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1956

Richard Steele

… in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very … volunteer in township soup kitchens at the…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, which included…

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1927

Sydney Brenner

… intelligent and learned to read at an early age. One of his father's customers convinced Mr. Brenner senior to … at age 5. The young boy completed the first…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

… was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of his participation in any of its exhibitions. He most likely saw no need to exhibit … 1915 to 1940…

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1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His … Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO). PEBCO was an affiliate…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… Mosie Moolla and Barney later became joint secretaries of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC). In 1952, Desai … as coloured. He succeeded James La…

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1968

Rebecca Malope

… hiked 400 km from their home to the Johannesburg township of Evaton to seek work. In 1986 Rebecca entered the ‘Shell … award launched her music career. She…

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1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… He began as a clerk before becoming a superintendant of public works in Tlhabane. Frustrated by the racial hierarchy, he left and from 1972 spent most of the…

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1934-2011

Abdool Kader Hassim

… born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He … at the Dundee Indian High School…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… at Natal University for a BA degree (now University of KwaZulu-Natal -UKZN). At the time the University would not … schools throughout Natal, and by 1960/63…

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1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively involved in local … mother, Sophia Herman, was active in…

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1939-2025

Sunny Girja Singh

… years old. He had to forgo high school due to a lack of finances. He went to work as his father had passed away by then. The notorious Group Areas Act of…

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1875-1966

Walter Gilbert Wiles

… was born in Cambridge, England in 1875. Wiles was one of the five artist-sons of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Of all the five sons, he was the most successful…

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1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… Cape . She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Sara grew up on a colonial farm where her … ship surgeon named William Dunlop who…

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Brigalia Bam

… worker with a post-graduate degree from the University of Chicago. In the 1980s Brigalia worked for the Women’s Workers Programme that was part of the…

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1955

Thamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali

… ceramics at the Natal Technikon, 1983-84. He is a founder of Art Communications, 1983-84. He has participated in … he was awarded First Prize in Sculpture at…

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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… to have his twin children put to death, as the birth of twins was believed to be a curse. Malahele-Xakana became … South Africa in 1947, after becoming the…

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade unionist and educator is … socialist and Indian trade unionist. He is…

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1921-1985

Florence Mophosho

… 1921 Alexander Township , Johannesburg . She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified … worker. Household conditions forced…

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1803-1894

Rev. Aldin Grout

… Upon completing his studies, Grout was appointed one of six missionaries to South Africa by the American Board for … they sailed from Boston to South Africa…

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1956

Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa

… Grassroots Gallery in Westville, Durban, but by the end of that year she relocated to Johannesburg where she curated … in Hyde Park, and was later appointed…

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1800

Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther

… Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The … raids and pretty wars. It was in 1821 that…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… Perhaps more importantly, he was elected as the President of the Student Representative Council.    Before returning to … and played an instrumental role in…

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