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1949

Michael Lapsley

… Born in New Zealand on the 2nd of June, 1949. At the age of seven, Michael entered the Society of Sacred Mission and then dropped his first name “Allan” to …

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1955

Adam Glasser

… where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music director Stanley ‘Spike’ … him musically, handing him his…

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… the “Young Turks” gathered around him. Towards the end of 1912 Botha dismissed  J B M Hertzog  from his cabinet and Roos protested by demonstrating at the…

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1967

Sparks Mahamba

… Sparks Mahamba was a member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we Sizwe  (MK). Mahamba was killed in the Third Battle of the Wankie…

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1947-2010

Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo

… under the name Victoria Mhlongo. Her 1963 version of My Boy Lollipop became a national hit and her career … an African tour with the singer Letta Mbulu . For…

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1935-2013

Sipo Elijah Mzimela

… become a priest. He obtained a degree from the University of South Africa that enabled him to teach. He joined the … Mzimela moved to the United States to…

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1906

Martha Mohlakoane

… Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 … joined the  African National Congress  in 1939 and was one…

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1897-1972

Nils Severin Andersen

… out on several trips to Namibia with Mr. E Schweikerdt of Pretoria. Several of his works have been reproduced locally by E Schweikerdt (Pty) Ltd; and one…

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1978

Hestrie Cloete

… Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She grew up in the small town of Coligny , Western Transvaal (now North West Province ) with her mother Martie and father Willem…

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1977

Makhaya Ntini

… in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's development program. Raymond … introducing the game to rural boys. Ntini…

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1928

John Hlatywayo

… under George Boys who introduced him to the techniques of batik and mono printing. Around 1970 Hlatywayo travelled … National Gallery in Salisbury, now the…

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2012

Jackson Lehupa

… He also supported extended family members, including three of his brother’s and three of his sister’s children. According to his customary law … after his…

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1925-1968

Patrick Mosell Molaoa

… and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one of the first activists of the African National Congress (ANC) to die as a guerrilla … 1959 he was elected its…

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1853-1915

Heinrich Egersdorfer

… Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he had worked at his trade in England. In 1884 he … African…

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1881-1963

Frank Wiles

… born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles . … in SA in 1902, he studied in 1901 at the…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie … in 1959.  Gwangwa then went on to become a…

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… . With the SAIC he collected food and money for victims of the 1949 Durban riots and for families whose wage earners … League and the Youth Communist League …

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1918-1982

Bartholomew Hlapane

… Moru Hlapane was  born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A …  (who worked with the Defence Team in…

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1927

C. M Kobus

… C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the  Non-European Unity Movement  (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the…

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1937-2020

Andrew Clement Verster

… Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London, and an Art Teacher’s Diploma (1960) from … at Fine Art institutions in South Africa for…

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1975

Tikkie Sibisi

… single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his mother died during the ritual of Sangoma training) His father was a welder at Union ……

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1920

Lorna Peirson

… College. From 1963 - 1981 she was the teacher in charge of the one-year Special Art Teachers’ Course at the Ndaleni … Natal. From 1982-1985 she was Senior…

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1923

Dr Hassen (Ike) Mahomed Moosa

… He was educated at Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town (UCT) and was active in the political movement … since his student days. Moosa was an executive…

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1904

Joan Morice

… in Barberton in 1904. She completed the first two years of pre-veterinary study at the University of Witwatersrand, and the next three years at the Transvaal…

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James J. Majoro

… Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial that followed the 1946 mine strike. He was an organizing secretary of the…

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1920

Hymie Barsel

… against the Blackshirt Movement. He was secretary of the Johannesburg Medical Aid for Russia, during the war and a former member of the Communist Party of…

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1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

… was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who … that he decided to turn professional…

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… a B.A. (Hon) degree in Drama from the then University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), he began acting and producing … in mainstream theatres. Ahmed was the…

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1942

Letta Mbulu

…  King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced into exile in the United … together they released many hits. She has…

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1986

Peter (Petrus) Nchabeleng

… Peter (Petrus) Nchabeleng was president of the Northern Transvaal region of the  United Democratic Front  (UDF). He was convicted of sabotage in 1962 and…

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