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… Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the … [i] Malinga would go on to make a brilliant career out of boxing. He started his boxing career at the age of 17 when he won the Natal Midlands lightweight title. He … , retrieved April 2015. |Supersport “Shades of Ali in South Africa”  …

… the Broadway yanks and later the Four Yanks. In a turn of events that would alter his music career, Pukwana met … group, the Blue Notes. This would prove to be the first of many groups that he would join. The Blue Notes comprised of four other members, Mongezi Feza, Nikele Moyake, Johnny …

… in the Eastern Cape. He later moved to the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where he qualified in BSc … wing,  Umkhonto we Sizwe  in 1962. He became a Commander of the Victoria East MK group. In 1963 he was arrested for … activities. Masondo spent 13 years in prison, he was one of the first MK members to be imprisoned on Robben Island. …

… My mother wanted a better life for her children, a kind of insurance against poverty by trying to give me a prestige … the prison and farm conditions in the 1950s. He was part of a team of writers that included Henry Nxumalo, Can Themba, Es'kia …

… England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She … to paint. She worked, so the Press noted, "regardless of public opinion" (SANG Archival news cutting). Known to her … a prolific artist, always painting pastoral subjects out of doors, prefering for the most part the pinkish tones of …

… [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955  at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ in the Vryburg district … related to his banishment, Monare was suspected of instigating arson and robbery, but charges were dropped … as its president.  At its meetings, Monare was accused of encouraging opposition to the increase of rent by the …

… in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were … travels England and South Africa. She was a devoted member of SASA and a frequent exhibitor. In 1941 she held an … Miller Gallery, opened by Dr J.R. Derbyshire, Archbishop of Cape Town. Press reports on the event throw light on white …

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and … William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg. Son of two anti-apartheid lawyers, he learned at an early age to … a degree in Politics and African Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand after which he studied art at the …

… Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile Workers' Union, Goodman was elected to the Natal executive committees of the ANC in 1955 and of the South African Congress of Trade …

… a journalist. After a short period in Katanga Province of the DRC she moved to  Johannesburg  in 1963, where her … her marriage to Iain disintegrated just prior to the birth of her son, Andrew. She lived for a time in Botha's Hill and … and became a vice-chairperson. It was during the height of student riots in  Tembisa  in 1984 that Gille de Vlieg …

… he won the award for ‘Most Promising Artist’ at the Artist of Fame & Promise Exhibition in Johannesburg. This motivated … Paris, France. Upon his return to South Africa, the state of oppression and struggle in the country dispirited him. Most of his friends were imprisoned along with the arrest of …

… Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. … with the police. This enabled him to trace the whereabouts of detainees, obtain legal assistance and arrange for … figure in its circles. During the 1950s, he was a member of the Picasso Club, along with Ahmed Kathrada , Mosie Moolla …

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near … in Johannesburg and they lived in Sophiatown . At the age of seven her mother returned to Mogopa so that the children … village. Her grandfather and others bought two farms, one of which was called Mogopa. After she had completed standard …

… and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA in 1949 and … Sekhuthe in 1953, he went on to do a PhD at the University of Cape Town, completed in 1961. Two years later, after a … remained in exile for 30 years. Ten years after the death of his first wife Selina, Kunene married his second wife …

… and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A friend of Nita Spilhaus ,  she joined SASA and was represented on their 1917 exhibition in a variety of media. Several portraits, a landscape, a woodcut, some … to write that "her exhibits reveal a great versatility of interests united by a very subtle sense of colour values. …

… Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the Santam … Technikon while working as Photographer at the University of Port Elizabeth. She later did freelance photography at the … Media, Port Elizabeth. In 1998 she joined the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the Vaal Triangle Technikon as a …

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the … Boers as intruders who were trying to change his way of life and refused to have his territory demarcated in 1888; …

… Simmers (qv.), for its "extraordinarily strong sense of drawing" ( Cape Time s 23.8.1937).  Hope had trained at the Slade and Central Schools of Art, London, and in 1926 won the Prix de Rome for her etching The Adoration of the Shepherds, which was subsequently shown at the RA. She …

… 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught. The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in 1938, and she explored … themes at this time, more concerned with themes of hardship and suffering than expressing any nationalist …

… mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic … Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Pretoria Art Museum; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; University of the Western Cape, Bellville; University of South Africa …

… He trained as a painter from 1950-1953 at the University of Rhodes, Eastern Cape, where he obtained a BA(FA). In 1954 … gained a Higher Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Town. In 1958 he studied at the Central School of Art, London. Barrymore obtained an MA(FA) at the …

… Tom was born on 7 September 1959, in the village of Mpongo outside East London, and was one of eight children. His mother was a domestic worker and his … at a young age through his father, an active member of the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU).While a …

… for a short time and worked as clerk but devoted much of his time to organizing for the ANC and the Cape Youth League, of which he became a provincial official.Mfaxa was part of the 1952 Defiance Campaign committee and was nominated as …

… became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black South African music. He was the well-known musician …

… Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami Zulu or “TZ”) operating from Swaziland … University. Special Investigation into the Secret Burial of Activists and Report on Exhumations online. Available at …

… Madikizela graduated from Fort Hare.  He was a member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA). He taught at Buntingsville.  When the … over African schools, Madikizela, along with 155 members of CATA, was summarily dismissed. He then moved to …

… Terry was an active member of the British  Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) , which was … Sharpeville Massacre  and succeeded the Boycott Movement of 1959. The AAM was established in response to an appeal by  Chief Albert Luthuli , President of the  African National Congress (ANC)  and other leaders …

… after his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and … Durban City Council forced African businesses to move out of the area. Bertha was a member of the Industrial Workers’ Union (ICU) and took part in …

… Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931, … National Congress (ANC). He thereafter became chairman of an Alexandra branch of the ANC and played a leading role …

… was born in Carolina, Mpumalanga, 1907. She was a daughter of Bertha Everard, had a brief career cut short by her death in a Spitfire accident in England. She received most of her art training from her mother and a period spent in … Paris. Her work was shown on the First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary National Art staged by the SA Art Gallery …