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… South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her … parents who were English immigrants. In 1902, at the age of 19, Prowse went abroad to study and attended various … teach art and a year later she was elected to be a member of the South African Society of Artists.  In 1912, Prowse …

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … and taken to Pietermaritzberg where he was held in terms of section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act. Mr Malinga was detained in connection …

… 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibitionin 1969. This exhibition consisted of oil paintings on wood, bone, wire and an assortment of found objects. The following year he began his career as a …

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels … renaming it De Middelburg Getuige, and increased coverage of Dutch news and comment. He became active in the Middelburg … Vereeniging to popularise Hofmeyr. De Waal became a member of the Afrikaner Bond in 1883 after the boeren vereenigingen …

… Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist  Episcopal minister,Make grew up in Mohlakeng township of Randfontein.His family subsequently moved to Evanon near …

… Letele, was a school inspector. His mother, Catherine, was of Xhosa decent. The Letele family immigrated to South Africa … later became Fort Hare University, and the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. He qualified as a … to Kimberley, where he immediately joined the local branch of the  African National Congress (ANC),he also establish his …

… with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in the backyard of the family home (297 Bree Street, Johannesburg). Carneson’s parents were founding members of South African Communist Party (SACP), and in 1931, at age 18, Carneson joined the Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA).  By 1934 she was a member of the …

… Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Thambi "Naran" Naidoo, was born in Pretoria , … Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and then in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) which was established in …

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, … he served, at its establishment in 1925, as the supervisor of the party night school in Ferreirastown,  Johannesburg . …

… living side by side. She was raised in the home of her grandparents with her older brother and sister. When … World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances Elizabeth moved out of the family house with the children to a new housing … in representing and articulating the grievances of the workers. She continued working in the factory and …

… Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as Mpumalanga Province. He was the second of six children, the son of the Reverend Russell Saoli. As a child, he attended the … ’ in Proud, H., ed. Revisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African . UNISA and SA History Online, Cape Town, …

… born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved … as a journailst and in 1959 went to work for weekly Times of Brazil.The family settled in Brazil and Burton went to … The Presidency Mary Burton(1940-) ORDER OF LUTHULI IN SILVER [online] Available at: …

… 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the House of Assembly, and his …

… in local and world politics - particularly politics of the Soviet Union as well as the relationship between … return to South Africa he was assigned to the Geaina area of the Pretoria Circuit.  He was sent to Pietersburg in 1937 … Soviet Union. During World War II he became chairperson of the Medical Aid to Russia movement, which became the South …

… in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not imagine a career in architecture, so … work as a cartoonist began in earnest with a wide range of political and progressive organisations. When the … a Fulbright Scholarship to study media arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. New York was an eye-opening …

… intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the pages of the fortnightly newspaper that he produced for Black … (Ghana) to Zaqueu Francisco. Zaqueu Francisco was the son of a West African woman who was enslaved and taken to Brazil, …

… a Higher Diploma Drama in Education from the University of Cape Town in 1989, educating has been a huge part of his professional life. He taught art at Alexander Sinton … later lectured in design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology for several years. In 1989 he completed a …

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted soprano, and … organ in the Anglican Church. Matshikiza was the youngest of seven children. His sisters were Grace (Girlie) and …

… from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of its Johannesburg branch. On 1 February 1909, he was … Hiralal, K. & Reddy, E.S. (2017). Pioneers of Satyagraha Indian South Africans Defy Racist Laws, …

… 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna and Kanana Mbuyabo. He received his early education … gallantly against the homeland regime. After the unbanning of political organizations, Mbuyabo established a branch of …

… he was already studying part-time at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. The influence and guidance of Katrine Harries (1914–1918) is discernable in his work, … Collection, Untitled, dated 1964, also shows an awareness of prints made by the German Expressionists with its vigorous …

… , South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South Africa. She studied under Prof. P.R. Kirby of the Department of Music at the University of the Witwatersrand in … Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. 2000. Women …

… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting the aims of the Freedom Charter , then joined the Congress of Democrats (COD) . When the COD was banned in 1962, she …

… as their property was taken over by the then Department of Community Development. He first attended Manor Gardens … and continued his tertiary education at the University of Natal. Some of his university tuition took place at Sastri College and at …

… Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton , … surveyor and her mother, Emmy Bernsmann was the daughter of a missionary and a devout Christian. The Krige's had quite … the local farm school where two teachers had the care of everyone from grade one to seven, all within one larger …

… a liberal politician opposing the White minority regime of Ian Smith's Rhodesia. Her birth name was Diana Mary Coates … Diana travelled to Cape Town to attend the University of Cape Town, [vii]  where she studied History and Shona, … .In 1966, upon seeing a nursery school for the children of Black domestic workers being demolished, she began a …

… was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's … schools, he only began his schooling at the age of ten at the Hindu Tamil Institute in Durban, Natal. In … in Durban.it was in the city that he became aware of racial discrimination,with beaches, benches ,restaurants …

… was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in the Ermelo district in 1907, the son of a tenant farmer. He received no formal schooling but …

… School in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the City Council, working in the Department of Native Affairs, 'Bra Ike', as Maphotho is affectionately … Congress (ANC) and soon became an active member. His area of political operation was Atteridgeville, Benoni where he …

… Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale … the Post newspaper in Johannesburg, a regular user of his contributions, offered him a job. When World War II … were to stand him in good stead. According to one of them, Peter Abrahams, Nxumalo had the sense that great …