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1945-1988

Stanley Bongani Nkosi

… privately with Cecil Skotnes and became a decorator of lamp bases at the Artlite factory. In 1973 he became a … Macmillan and Henry Moore. He attended the…

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1974

Wim Botha

… is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town on the…

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1772-1841

Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin

… at the Cape from 1820-21. He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife. He committed suicide at Southampton…

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1932-2005

Arthur Maimane

… Johannesburg, which was also known as the Black Eton of South Africa. Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and president of the African…

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1912-1969

Nell Kaye

… training under Lippy Lipschitz at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT in the 1950s. She was one of the few professional sculptors, aside from Ivan … with…

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1917-1958

Christopher W. M. Gell

… Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge … civil service…

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1927-2007

Theo Mthembu

… February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal and later … three Transvaal Provincial…

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1927-2011

Elsie Nair

… the Progressive Garment Workers' Union, an initiative of the South African Trade Unions (SACTU), in opposition to … Union. Elsie met her husband, Billy Nair …

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1865-1923

Chief Dalindyebo

… Chief Dalindyebo, of the Tembus, was born in 1865. At the age of 14 years he was admitted into St. John's, where he … recalled him to study the aspirations,…

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1911-1991

Dorothy Joan Wright

… was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at … London at the Regent Polytechnic and…

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1938

Dorothy Hazel Alexander

… 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape , the third of six children [1] . One of her siblings was Neville Alexander . Since her father was … and soon…

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1922-1998

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji

… bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port Elizabeth. He became an active trade union activist, … (ANC) and the South African…

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1923

Lutchmee Marie

… white community. Her father was a factory worker. All of Lutchmee’s siblings went to school, though the youngest, … from her older sister, Poomony Moodley ,…

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1953

Fanie Jason

… Jason's family was forced to move to the black township of Guguletu in 1960. Jason's interest in photography … Sunday Times, City Press  and  Tribute…

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1862-1931

Percy Fitzpatrick

… Percy Fitzpatrick best known for his book, Jock of the Bushveld and other children's books. Fitzpatrick was one of the leaders of Johannesburg's Reform…

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1819-1901

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

… Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries Pretorius, and the first president of the South African Republic…

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1920-2017

Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)

… and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the tutelage of Reverend Selope Thema , a prominent African National … member Joe Matlou . Violet Matlou was an active…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his grandparents. He was … was a flute that he made from a reed…

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Jansie Lourens

… Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of…

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1934-2010

Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu

… 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the first born son of Pasquale “Grovaa” Mattera, and the eldest…

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1961

David Hartman

… settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman … In his own opinion this trip deepened…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… Correspondence College.He started painting at the age of seven and his mother continually encouraged the young boy … his mother’s brother having been Arthur…

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1880

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

… Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary school at…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… (ANC)  in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the  ANC Women’s League  in 1954, and in 1955 became the … secretary. She was also on the executive…

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1932-2008

Miriam Makeba

… born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg , during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was … Oil. Makeba’s mother was also a sangoma,…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… For over twenty years she unobtrusively produced some of the most original and creative studio pots. She used the restricted Rorke’s Drift palette of brown,…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… most artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of the second intake of artists who commenced classes in 1971. The early…

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State … managed to slip through the enemy…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts,…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

… periods in England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown on SASA exhibitions in … acquired by the SANG. They…

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