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1965

Mduduzi Richard Shabalala

… father was a prominent civic rights leader in Lamontville Township. Shabalala completed his primary and secondary education in the township. In 1982…

B-0146878

1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… to the traditional royal house; city schooling, nascent township music and lingo; growing urbanised political … African culture, but were aware that in their…

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1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako. Paris: AFAA, 2003. 'Township Billboards: Beauty, Sex and Cellphones’. In Sharjah: … AI-Qasimi. Exhib. cat. Sharjah:…

B-0008597

1919

Isaac Zakes Nkosi

… known to his fans as Bra Zakes, was born in Alexandra Township early in 1919. He started his schooling in Alexandra …

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… and as member of the ANC. He became a resident of Clermont Township in Durban.   He held numerous positions in the …

B-0008255

1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… for five years. In 1952 they moved to White City Jabavu, a township that was conceived as a temporary shelter for many … City for another five years before…

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Thys Dullaart

… up in Documentary Photography - Fuji Profoto Awards - Township Boxing 1995/96Runner up Picture Story - Fuji Press …

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… 19’ in the Nkandla district of Northern Natal, from Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal. He was described …

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… for the street committee structures operating in the township. In the same year Mayekiso was central to the …

B-0008505

1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… Anglican mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was …

B-0095228

1956

Ndabenhle William Zulu

… the Nsengeni Mission School. In 1968 he moved to Emondlo Township and attended the Ikhethelihle Lower Primary School …

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a crusader for better housing for …

B-0008680

1901-1969

Phillip Qipu Vundla

… 1944. He was best known as a member of the Western Native Township advisory board and one of the principal organisers … Dube advisory board after the removal…

B-0149520

1956

Chris Ledochowski

… the late eighties he worked for a number of years in the township of Mbekweni outside Paarl , in conjunction with the …

B-0008305

1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

… in Harlem, USA, he identified. He portrayed the township in large collages of charcoal and pencil drawings. …

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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing …

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1954

Lele Jacob Motaung

… between October 1976 and January 1977 in Alexandra township, Johannesburg; and 3. Recruiting persons for …

B-0008660

Nombuso Mchunu

… work as a lecturer at the Mangosuthu Technikon in Umlazi township. Her lectureship at the technikon lasted a year, …

B-0067935

Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

… Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing …

B-0096273

1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh High School in East London where …

B-0080383

Diana (Di) Bishop

… after she and a friend were found in a Port Elizabeth township without permits, Di was arrested for the first time. …

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Elliot Mngadi

… Once in the new area Mngadi served on the Ezakheni township council to advance issues of development. He was … ward. . In 1979 Mngadi became the first mayor…

B-0149214

1956-2010

Cheryl Ellen Gillwald

… Gillwald was involved in community work in Intabazwe Township where she also helped start the Fundisanani … teachers from the University of the Free State to…

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1880-1919

Cecilia Makiwane

… the Lovedale Hospital in 1977 and a hospital in Mdantsane Township in the Eastern Cape has been named after her. In …

B-0008407

1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… of emergency. She spent the rest of her life in Langa township where she died in 1984. Although she was buried in …

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1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… Mafuna was hired by the Rand Daily Mail  to write for its township edition.As journalist he met students from the South …

B-0080525

1953

Fanie Jason

… Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black township of Guguletu in 1960. Jason's interest in photography …

B-0008199

Joseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo

… and 1956.   Joseph ‘Anti-Pass’ Khumalo, resident in Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now Gauteng], was … on the 9 August 1956 .’  He was…

B-0149493

1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional … basis. Painting and drawing images classified as …

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