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… College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to 1957. Between 1959 and 1966 he … From 1961 to 1979 he was  the founder, owner and Director of the Walsh-Marais Gallery in Durban, an arts outles where he displayed and promoted the work of South African artists. He was Curator of the NSA Gallery, …

… Party. In  Durban  she got involved with the politics of the Indian community and became a member of the  Natal Indian Congress . When the Indian Congress … with the  African National Congress  (ANC) as a result of the Dadoo-Naicker-Xuma Pact of 1947 , she also became a …

… William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' including ‘civilised Africans'. … was born in 30 October 1857. He was the tenth child of Gottlob and Rebekah Schreiner. He studied at the South …

… Gomolemo Mokae was born in Ga-Mokopane. He was the last of the eight children born of a Methodist minister, Reverend Modisagarekwe Michael and … Mokae's tertiary education was aquired at the University of Natal Medical School, now Nelson Mandela School of …

… in the Cape, Blaaiberg spent his youth in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending a year at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. As a newly qualified … that he was dying. On 2 January 1968 received the heart of 24 year old donor Clive Haupt in an operation performed by …

… Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and …

… College in 1972, ELC 1975-1977 and at the Slade School of Art, London, from 1983 to 1985.  In 1988 he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in sculpture from the Chelsea School of Art, University of London. He has worked as a teacher in various …

… Luscombe (in South Australia) and an imperfect anagram of “Israel.” As a child he was taken to New Zealand and ran away to sea at the age of thirteen.  Searelle became associated with the theatre in Australia in 1881 and went to London for the production of a two-act comic opera, The wreck of the “Pinafore”  the …

… playing on a homemade guitar. He was exposed to all kinds of music and furthered his guitar talent on a borrowed instrument instead of the homemade version. At the age of 16 he met the jazz guitarist Cyril Magubane. For Sipho, …

… a child. He studied briefly in Poland under the guidance of Appelbaum, a painter visiting from London. He became very … to see whether he had potential as a painter. At age of 20 he fled to Austria to avoid the draft, which was the … norm in the Polish army at the time.  Not being a citizen of Austria, Kibel could not enroll as state pupil, and was …

… October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother.  When she was three … farm in the Umvukwes (now Mvurwi) district in the north of the country. After her O-level examinations at Salisbury’s … defied censorship laws and published the first photograph of Robert Mugabe to appear in Rhodesia on the front cover. …

… 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to school … violent battle with the state. Mpanza was also part of the group that planned to attack the July Handicap, … Ronnie Kasrils’s wife Eleanor Kasrils , conducted acts of sabotage. They were together when they went to blow up a …

… Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging … her employment possibilities, although she was the head of her department. She was previously married. She met her … her divorce. He was a civil rights lawyer and a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). They continued …

… friend John Gomas , she joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , aged 16. In the same year, she lost … in an anti-pass campaign. She was involved with all facets of the Party's work, and after being dismissed from a job for attending the founding conference of the Anti-Fascist League, she became increasingly involved …

… John Luthuli . He played a prominent role in the formation of the Sobantu branch of the ANC.  Xaba was subsequently arrested and charged with …  He was later acquitted. During the March 1960 state of emergency, he was among many ANC, National Indian Congress …

… After completing his matric, he enrolled at the University of Cape Town. He got involved in the student movement and joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) . In 1963 he was nominated and elected as president of NUSAS serving one term. During this period he came into …

… and from 1947 to 1950 he studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and obtained a BA(FA). In 1951 he … South Africa he joined the Non-European Affairs Department of the Johannesburg City Council and was appointed cultural officer in charge of the Polly Street Art Centre which he ran until 1966. In …

… assistant at the Star Newspaper under the guidance of the late Ken Oosterbroek. Bieber freelanced for that … on a various personal projects in South Africa. Most of her projects are based in Africa however her assignment to … Prize for Reportage spread or Single Page in The Society of Publications Designers Awards in New York 2001 for her …

… other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught him the basics of photography and he started working at the Daily Dispatch … and later at the New African in Durban and as a member of the Afrapix collective. He has since participated in a number of exhibitions. These include the Staffrider exhibitions at …

… Act . They were charged and went to trial. Due to a lack of concrete evidence the pair was found guilty under the … the intent to commit immorality’. From about the middle of 1961 dos Santos worked for Helen Joseph , a veteran in the … struggle. dos Santos helped Joseph with the manuscript of her book ‘If this be treason’ and worked for the Women’s’ …

… for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the trial that she was named Kwhezi or Accuser X. Her family spent much of her early life in exile. Her father, Judson Khuzwayo , was the Chief Representative of the African National Congress (ANC) in Zimbabwe . He died …

… Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town.  Yengeni was a member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) under the leadership of Steve Biko before joining the banned African National Congress (ANC) in 1976. As a result of government’s determined effort to crack down on …

… him in his artistic career. He also enjoyed the guidance of other artists such as Walter Battiss (1906–1982), Irmin … Koch (b.1940) and Emil Schweikerdt. In 1969 Jan Krige of Menlo Park arranged for him to attend fortnightly lessons … with Johann du Preez, an art student at the University of Pretoria. Makhubedu gained confidence in drawing and …

… Boys High School in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in … was seconded to Lisbon University through the University of Lourenco Marques and worked in the rural areas of southern Mozambique for a year. He was a controversial …

… was born in 1912. Due to poor living conditions and lack of opportunities, in 1920 Hester together with her sister … During this period, white workers were in the process of forming the Garment Worker’s Union (GWU) with the help of Emil Solomon Sachs . Impressed by Solly’s work in fighting …

… However, he soon rejected this profession in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William … north Australian expedition. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and received its gold medal … to South West Africa (now Namibia) in 1862, and on 23 July of that year he reached Victoria Falls. It was on this …

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head of the Sociology Department at UCT, a post he took over in …

… valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe, who had learnt the skills …

… 1888 he showed regularly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and still sent work to them after settling in SA. … His love for a woman named Ada Morris resulted in a number of romantic female portraits painted between 1896 and 1902, one of which is exhibited here. He showed on all the recorded …

… from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, … her true medium when she went to the Edinburgh School of Art, where she mastered the technique of making colour woodblock prints in the Japanese manner. She …