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… morning after his murder. She vehemently refuted the claim of police General Coetzee that the African National Congress … to his contribution in the struggle. After the death of her husband, she carried on with the law practice.  She … to protect youth ill-treated in detention. She was part of the defence team in the 1984 treason trial , against …

… Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the spiritual sources of inspiration for her songs that often came to her in … Masuku: Africa has lost a singer, composer and a hero of the struggle  from The Conversation, 25 February 2019 …

… Jan de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de Klerk, a political analyst and one of the founders of the  Democratic Party . After finishing school in …

… Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up … In 1923 he joined the CPSA and was drawn into the wing of the party led by Sidney Bunting and then in a minority, which favored emphasis on the recruitment of blacks. After completing an honor's degree at the …

… in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following … in executing murals as a teenager, using a widening range of paint colours that emerged in the 1940s. She married and had three sons, but lost her husband and two of her children. Between 1980 and 1991 she lived and worked …

… “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). He is the seventh of ten children of laborers on a sheep farm near Somerst … , interviewed by Padraig O’Malley, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory | Gerwel, Jakes, (2000) ‘National Reconciliation: …

… 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies … Roux, a master draughtsman, is known as a painter of landscapes, portraits and plant studies and devoted his artistic career to developing his methods of observation using oils, tempera, watercolour, chalk and …

… was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she moved to Cape Town , where her … Vigilance Association and, during the Defiance Campaign of 1952, she joined the African National Congress (ANC) . …

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, … several books and wrote poetry to accompany some of his own paintings. Fikile has been described as a man who "protested with pen and brush". Much of his work contains an element of resistance to a society …

… dairy farm in Lady Selbourne, and later joined the staff of the Pretoria General Hospital. He joined the African … (ANC) in 1957 in Lady Selbourne after having been a member of the ANC Youth League . In 1959, he was elected as chairperson of the Selbourne ANC Branch. In 1960 after the Sharpeville …

… challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.  André Philippus Brink was born on 29 May 1935, in Vrede one of the small towns in Orange Free State. His writing began at …

… became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council he … between black students and the white-led National Union of South African Students. He completed a BA degree in 1956 …

… was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the University of South Africa and was a prize winner of the International … Vilakazi, Benedict Wallet , from the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, [online], Available at …

… during which time she developed a strong awareness of the link between the social system and health problems in … African National Congress (ANC) in 1952 at the beginning of the Defiance Campaign . Mnumzana was part of the anti-pass Women’s March of 1956 to the Union Buildings …

… on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in the struggles of people other than her own for the cause of peace, freedom equality and justice. At the time of her involvement in the South African liberation struggle, … Anon, (2011), Presentation Of National Orders , Hélène Passtoors , from The Presidency …

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country … autobiography, 1984) Thami Mnyele was born the third of five children in Alexandra, near Johannesburg, on 10 … & Vladislav, I. (eds) (1988). <em>Ten Years of Staffrider 1978 - 1988</em>.Volume 7 no. 3 and 4. …

… Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern … groups run mainly by students from the nearby University of Fort Hare, and in 1954 he joined the African National … sports groups and campaigned for a sporting boycott of South Africa. In 1954 to 1963 Fihla worked as a cleaner at …

… on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight children. As a young child, he already showed a … in the war as a volunteer, but also began to draw a set of cartoons called the 'Aquila Caricatures' as an attack on …

… Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His father died when he was 3 years old … devoted herself to bringing up a rather large family of 10. Baden Powell and his brothers were encouraged by their …

… He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His family were descendants of African slaves who had been brought to the Caribbean to … History of violence.com, Fanon, from History of violence.com [online] …

… 1913 in Tweedie, KZN. He was a painter and graphic artist of landscapes, portraits and still life. He worked in oil, … University College; and 1967-69 a DPhil. at the University of Stellenbosch. From 1935-1948 he was an art teacher with … Ndaleni Art Centre, Natal; from 1948-53 he was Organiser of Arts and Crafts in Natal for the African Schools of the …

… Learning Centre, and from 1982-83 was at the University of Fort Hare lecturing Educational Psychology. Balindlela … Her political activism led to her dismissal from some of the schools at which she worked. She lectured in 1984 at … Cape Teacher's College, and in 1985-87 at the University of Transkei Department of Educational Psychology. In 1988-91 …

… on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape . In the early days of her life, her parents moved to Upington . They were a … in her first marriage. The marriage collapsed as a result of her first alleged husband’s (who was a railway worker) …

… 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo herded cattle. Though … Company. After the rinderpest had wiped out the oxen of the business he had taken over from his father, he worked …

… the  New Age  as both photographer and reporter. His job of exposing the hidden crimes of Apartheid proved a remarkable experience in investigative journalism. Gqabi was one of two thousand political detainees after the 1960 PAC-led  …

… he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age of eleven. He then began working for his father, a trader and … Barney Simon. Dumile exhibited successfully for a number of years in Johannesburg and was selected as one of the artists to represent South Africa at the 1967 Sao …

… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She … after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her mother's … accompaniment at a very young age, and already at the age of five, she had tourists paying to hear her sing. She …

… Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a … did not work but was actively involved in the affairs of the church as the leader of Women’s Manyano. Mogoba attended primary school education …

… Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now … a youth club known as De-Olympia in the township of Ga-Rankuwa, north-west of Pretoria. Other members of this group were childhood … P. (2014). Propaganda and politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa. [online]. Available at: …