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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… categorised Sihlali’s work, along with that of many other black South African modernists, in the genre of ‘township … headed the Fine Arts Department at the…

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1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… 1946 – a corporal was then the highest rank attainable for black people in the military. He joined the African National … As senior administrative officer,…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… 12 September 1978, exactly a year after the death of the Black Consciousness leader  Steve Biko , Sibeko took part in … homage to Biko he said that it was…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… in South Africa on 6 November 1929, and began to organise Black workers unions. Five days later, on 11 November 1929, … west coast among fishing communities…

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1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… was made available by the Health and Town Boards. No Black people were allowed to stay near the White areas nor … Place, the family then moved to a larger…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… Drift palette of brown, ochres and yellow, blue and black in her pots.  Decoration began with the application of …

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1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… influenced by the Tuskegee-Hampton Institute vogue in black American education, Loram helped to promote the concept …

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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

… the song in 1934,  D. D. T. Jabavu  said, "Of late the Black races of the Union and the Protectorates have somehow …

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1955

Michael Davis

… South Africa,  the photographs revealed the frustration of black South Africans with regard to a lack of recreational …

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1951

David Lurie

… Services': 1994 [UK]* 'After Apartheid: South Africa's black middle class': 1995 [US tour, with 'Life in the …

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Yazeed Kamaldien

… in photography included a short course in the theory of black and white photography at the Cape Technikon and …

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1948-2003

Magwaza Alfred Maphalala

… Communist Party (SACP).  In the middle of 1980, the Black and Allied Workers Union (BAWU) split with the …

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1932-2016

Diana Mary Mitchell

… .In 1966, upon seeing a nursery school for the children of Black domestic workers being demolished, she began a campaign … expanded into a national drive to…

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1902-1996

Jane Gool

… brother A.H. Gool studied in England and was the second Black doctor in South Africa. At his insistence Jane and her … from playing an active organisational…

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1930-2013

Ismail Jacob Mohamed

… the leading section of the NEUM, and canvassed support in Black townships and in the rural areas. For a time, APDUSA … 16, 1976 uprisings in Soweto,…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… Tumelong Anglican mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role … member of the Liberal Party of South…

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1917

Elijah Thomas Zondi

… the next two decades until  in 1950 he became the first Black professional photographer in Natal..  An Indian …

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Thomas G. Karis

… served in the American Embassy in Pretoria, reporting on black politics, labor, and the long-running Treason Trial of … Foreign Affairs in the 1980s, …

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… on his right leg. Madaka emerged in politics during the Black Consciousness era when he participated in anti … He was a one of the founder members of Port…

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1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… and teacher, who was open and knowledgeable about black life and culture. By the mid-1950s Drum had grown as a … drastically. Protesters on the streets of…

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1963

Robert John McBride

… Jackson, about an African-American associated with the Black Panther movement, became one of the most influential … to the politics of a regenerating trade…

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1951

Frank Chikane

… became politically aware, being influenced largely by the Black Consciousness ideology. Thus, he became involved in the … book gives an insight into his…

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Arthur Butelezi

… art; they reveal the way that white artists tended to view black people – as subjects for superficial scrutiny rather …

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… , where he spent three years working with a staff of black writers, who would later become well known for their …

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1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… an office in the same Durban building that house SASO,and Black Community Programmes (BCP) was born with Khoapa as …

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1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… country with the struggle for the national liberation of black people by cementing strong relations between the SACP, …

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… had helped to form in 1902. Abdurahman was also the first black South African to be elected to the Cape Town City …

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1955

Caesarina Kona Makhoere

… in South Africa. After her release, she worked for the Black Sash counselling victims of discriminatory laws and … Member of Black Sash, imprisoned for…

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