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… Pule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London … in music and he went on to study towards a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Goldsmith College University of …

… was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and completed a degree in Visual … that she made the decision to write Art and Artists of South Africa. She sent a selection of these lectures in manuscript form to publisher AA Balkema. …

… Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in … Union (GWU)  under Solly Sachs, and soon became one of its leading figures. Impressed by the spirit of  African National Congress (ANC)  volunteers, she joined …

… Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now … By 1981 she was serving as the provincial secretary of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) , which was a United Democratic … category 2 funeral for 'fiery, fierce and a champion of the people' Jessie Duarte from TimesLive, 17 July 2022, …

… Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi … incorporated into Bophuthatswana . There was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and aggressive reaction from police. …

… his mother, a midwife. His father was a staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1919, his parents … African National Congress (ANC) and became the President of the Transvaal Branch of the ANC. After listening to the late S. P. Bunting …

… de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway … clerk, organiser for the  National Party  (NP), and Member of Parliament for Vasco from 1953 to 1961. The De Villiers …

… and Kanniamah Moodley; who themselves were children of Indian indentured labourers in Natal. In 1930, when … eventually left school in Standard 5. [ii] Although most of her contemporaries were confined to working within the … when she started working at the Fosa in 1945 at the age of 19. She then went on to do a nurse aide training course at …

… as Wellington today), Cape Province. He was the fifth of 10 children of Jacobus, a farmer  and Debora Retief. His ancestors were … Stellenbosch, Cape Province and tried his hand at a number of businesses — working as a clerk in a store, prospecting …

… politically active. In 1919 he was elected as president of the Cape provincial branch of the  South African Native National Council  (SANNC, … Congress (ANC) after 1923). He also became vice-president of the Cape Native Voters' Convention. His first term as …

… Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his … for gout, Jameson was honoured with the exceptional status of Induna after undergoing the necessary initiation ceremony. For some time, Jameson was an Induna of the Matabele King’s favorite regiment, the Imbeza. Using …

… left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective who had been gain access … into the African National Congress (ANC) at the time of the 1918 "bucket strike", but had calmy repudiated his own … were poor,he helped organize a successful strike of several thousand laundry workers and soon after became an …

… Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and … associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape Town at the end of 1879. They toured South Africa until 1881, when they were interrupted by the siege of Pretoria during the First Anglo-Boer War. The two, who had …

… Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity … later went on to become a founder member and manager of the South Photographs Agency. William's work has made a …

… to visit his relative Jacqueline Arenstein , a member of the Communist Party of South Africa , when he first met Eleanor.  Eleanor joined … 1950s. She was among the first women to join the ranks of  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  the African National Congress …

… Loots had not had the courage and integrity, in the face of considerable pressure, to report the truth’. [ii] However, beyond this significant event are layers of history that were pivotal to shaping the man through both … and ‘Minnie’ Loots [iii] , in the Kat River Valley region of the Eastern Cape on 19 July 1936. [iv] His family roots in …

… His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 years.  He was in one of the White worker-commando's during the 1922 Rand Revolt  … he studied Chemical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained his degree, Cum …

… have had a big showman personality as he was loved by many of his peers and followers. He became the first black South … 14-piece band in the country. Mrwebi was a founding member of the Union of South African Artists, which was formed in 1953 in order …

… Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Liverpool, England. She also attended courses on International Relations at the Institute of International Relations, Potsdam, East Germany (former … 1989.  Ngwevela served in diverse capacities as member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) in exile. She was …

… to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art and design, which aimed at giving a foundation 11 both … applied arts. This was emulated at the Grahamstown School of Art, where Charles Groves came to teach in 1905. He won a … where the great thinker on the industrial application of decorative design, W.R. Lethaby, had been appointed …

… 1 February 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman Catholic Mission … the basic requirement for teachers. In 1906, at the age of seventeen, Cressy was employed as principal of the Dutch …

… Nirvana High School. While studying for a Bachelor of Arts at the University Witwatersrand, she became active in … in various community organisations and youth structures of the Transvaal Indian Congress . She was elected on to the executive committees of the Azanian Student’s Organisation . After completing a …

… spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and his mother, principal …

… Primary School state–aided primary school consisting of one large classroom divided into two, catering for all … had a “platoon” section that catered for the overflow of children in the afternoon; so there was a “morning school” … Areas Act . He became politicized facing the injustices of the apartheid government. The restriction of movement, the …

… in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of Europe together with a Zulu choir. In approximately 1907 … started in 1900. In 1901 he became a founder member of the Natal Native Congress (NNC), which aimed at educating … economic self upliftment in the Transvaal. Msane was one of the founding members of the  South African Native National …

… Sihlali moved back in with his parents at the age of 14, staying with them in Moroka outside Johannesburg , … in 1958, and had five children with her. As a student of Skotnes, Sihlali departed from the instructor’s approach of drawing on imaginative interpretations of traditional …

… 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district of Transkei . Ma Mbeki’s family, the Moeranes, are Basotho members of the elite Bafokeng clan. Her parents, Christians active in …

… Skei Gwentshe played a key role in the establishment of an African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) branch … 1948, and ‘in organizing East London for the stay-at-home of 26 June 1950 and the 1952 Defiance Campaign.’ Gwentshe was ‘powerful and charismatic’ and was ‘orphaned as result of the Bulhoek massacre  in 1921.’ He helped to make East …

… in 1935. As a student, he was influenced by the writings of Samuel Krune Mqhayi. With no other prospects for a viable … Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the army with the rank of Corporal in 1946 – a corporal was then the highest rank … the Blind in Pretoria in 1952 at the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg. From 1953 until 1956, he was …

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple … an immigrant from Sunderland, was a shop steward of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and was blacklisted for his part in the 1913 …