SAHO global search

1918-1967

Patrick Baker Duncan

… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning of his…

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1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…

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1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of…

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Chauke Family

… Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific nor widely … not been promoted by any single art dealer…

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1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance with the country’s first post-independence … formed the People’s…

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1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…

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2016

Juda Ngwenya

… (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he was approached by the renowned news wire … over two and half decades, Ngwenya…

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1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of…

B-0007829

1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, … family moved to KwaMashu. It was the…

B-0070371

1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal). He went onto to complete his B.Sc Masters…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at … the Stofberg Gedenkskool (Stofberg Memorial School) of the…

B-0008627

1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda … was educated at a convent and thereafter at…

B-0009113

1933

Motsoko Pheko

… in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his brother came to South Africa … their aunt, E.M. Moerane. In 1960, Pheko…

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1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in … on to serve in various capacities in…

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1936-2017

Philip Ata Kgosana

… in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a minister.  He graduated from the Lady Selborne High … to study commerce for a Commerce degree…

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1956

Ben Mclennan

… moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early schooling in Grahamstown , in … with his wife and young son, Mclennan…

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1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… 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…

B-0008914

1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… 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…

B-0120752

1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days…

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1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign … At the Centre, Cecil Skotnes ,…

B-0122872

1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due to lack of funds, converted his studies to a…

B-0121674

1955

Diane Case

… was born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in ……

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1928-2004

Dolly Rathebe

… Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s…

B-0008942

1906-1980

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi

… in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee … an insurance company agent and later…

B-0007908

1909-2005

Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier

… Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his ……

B-0007867

1910-1990

Gerard Bhengu

… Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, … his early education at the Roman…

B-0007850

1953

Jeannette Ndhlovu

… and secondary education in South Africa and completed half of her tertiary education at the University of Zululand before she went into exile. Jeannette and…

B-0008756

1987

Mads Nørgaard

… City and her people. His work is, by and large, a body of social documentation. The subject of his lens shifts: from exploring the transport networks and ……

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With only a Standard 6 certificate (but…

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Mavuso Walter Msimang

… ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of Communications’ during the Wankie Campaign…

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