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Max Coleman

… Coleman, they had four sons, and became active members of the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC). They were founding members of this organisation of…

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1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand …

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1976

Edward Mzolo

… Fort in 2 weeks. No details are available on the date of his detention,the Act he was detained under ,or the official cause of death.No information is…

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1941-1997

Welcome Mandla Koboka

… most recognised for his paintings. The subject matter of his work generally focused on life in the townships, … his work as ‘township art’ and noted the…

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1926-2011

John A. Mavuso

… times as a messenger and a shopkeeper. He was a member of the African National Congress national executive committee … in the Alexandra branch in…

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Barney William Ngakane

… Ngakane moved to Springs, where he served as chairman of a Liberal Party branch in the early 1960s. In December … 1960 he acted as chairman at the…

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1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. … his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at…

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1957-2006

Monty Johannes Motloung

… they were driven to Maputo by the current Deputy President of the ANC,  Jacob Zuma . Motloung, together with his friends … outside Luanda, Angola. There they…

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1880-1919

Cecilia Makiwane

… in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a … She sat for her final examination…

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Anna Tempo

… not to go home with the women. In 1922 the public opinion of her changed and she was forced to leave the house and … clinics and by the Child Life Protection…

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Tu Nokwe

… Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band … sing by their mother and she introduced them to the music of …

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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… with Joan Brickhill-Burke and Louis Burke’s production of the musical “Meropa” as musical director. In 1975 they … led to Ntoni enrolling at the prestigious…

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1928

Christina Jasson

… the treason trial proceedings. She was acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the…

B-0008201

1960

Penelope Jane Dunlop

… She began her professional singing career as lead singer of the all-girl group Pantha in 1979. When the group … . The band lasted for seven years and…

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1663

Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper)

… strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the … who were engaged in a trading…

B-0007801

1948

George Msimang

… beginning in 1969. In 1971 and 1972, through the support of the NSA and the Italian Consulate in Durban, he attended … 1985 to 1986. Msimang makes his…

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The Taung Child

… which the spinal cord passes – was towards the front of the skull, indicating that this creature stood on two … the specimen as Australopithecus africanus …

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1951

Sabata Manaka

… in Botswana, in 1982, where he was living  under the name of Tshepo Nkosi. After this his family lost contact with him. Sabata  Manaka  died of natural…

B-0075102

1962

Lucky Shabalala

… Workshop in the 1980s in Durban. He has obtained a number of commissions from offices in the centre of Durban to carve heads. He carved sculptures for the…

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Logan K. Ntlabati

… Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) national executive … in the Cape and the Orange Free State, becoming…

B-0008821

1963

Lennox Madikane

… Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now…

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1844-1934

Francis William Reitz

… He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. He became President of the Orange Free State in 1889.  He was a…

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Nelson Mukhuba

… with Marula and Jacaranda wood, producing sculptures of celebrities, sports personalities, and dancing figures. Some of his work has the reputation of being…

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1893-1952

Hendrik Andries Hanekom

… Andries Hanekom was born on 17 June 1893. He was the son of Hendrik Hanekom. Hanekom was educated at Beaufort West … was first employed as a municipal…

B-0008140

1959

Kiren Thathia

… in Durban. In 1983 he obtained a BA(FA) from University of Durban Westville (UDW); in 1988 an MA(FA) cum laude and in … in Education from UDW. He was a…

B-0009133

1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

… in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . He was born in Natal … assisting volunteers from Alexandra…

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1960

Steve Dyer

… in 1960. He taught himself to play the guitar at the age of eleven. He studied music at the University of Natal where he obtained a degree in classical music…

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Peter Engblom

… He is a descendant of the original Scandinavian Missionaries who evangelised Zululand a century and a half ago. Of Lapp descent he was born on a sugar…

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1966

Hangula Shonyeka

… In 1967 the minister of justice announced that a detainee had died in detention in … the detainee's name.In 1970,in parliament the minister of police said…

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1829-1871

Tiyo Soga

… Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, … to be ordained in an established…

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