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… the 1980s, Lombard worked in the audio-visual department of a large construction company in Cape Town. His love for … for national and international newspapers and was a member of the Vakalisa Art Association (isiXhosa for enlighten), an … in Southern Africa, including at the University of Zimbabwe in 1983 and the Staffrider exhibitions of 1984 …

… Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson  was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's … School in Johannesburg in 1945 and obtained a BAchelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English and teacher's diploma from …

… Percy Fitzpatrick best known for his book, Jock of the Bushveld and other children's books. Fitzpatrick was one of the leaders of Johannesburg's Reform Committee which conspired to …

… Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries Pretorius, and the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria. He died on the 19th of May , 1901, in …

… is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of Pretoria. In 1996 he graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Visual Art) in 1996. Currently he …

… privately with Cecil Skotnes and became a decorator of lamp bases at the Artlite factory. In 1973 he became a … Macmillan and Henry Moore. He attended the London School of Art for two months. In 1980 he visited New Zealand and the … times. In 1981 he again visited the USA at the invitation of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 1982 Nkosi built …

… Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University of Natal. Clive started playing cricket for the Transvaal … Nuffield XI in 1967 and eventually showed glimpses of a fine all–rounder, which earned him promotion to the … won the double championship in 1981. Rice was also captain of Transvaal for the 1981/82 season, under his leadership …

… Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled in London. His … and trade at Port Natal, where a small European community of hunters and traders had settled. The following year he and … Natal as J. Owen Smith's representative for the purpose of establishing trading with the emigrant Boers. The same …

… Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge … civil service, he was stricken with polio in 1945.The son of British navy captain.In 1947 he and his South African-born …

… training under Lippy Lipschitz at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT in the 1950s. She was one of the few professional sculptors, aside from Ivan … with SASA. Records indicate that she first showed a bust of Norman Kaye with the Society in 1942. She showed …

… 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the first born son of Pasquale “Grovaa” Mattera, and the eldest brother of Don Mattera, also of Sophiatown. Bhengu then moved to …

… Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of active participation in the African National Congress  (ANC), the planting of bombs, assisting people in fleeing the country and the …

… South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled liberation movement as a whole. The ANC, with … the anc, SACTU and the SACP. The conference also adopted a programme, Strategies and Tactics, whose analysis of South …

… studied Graphic Fine Art at the Johannesburg College of Art, after which she joined The Star newspaper in 1979, … initiatives. In l999/2000, while working for the Dept of Health's Beyond Awareness Campaign, she compiled a series of portraits of 31 South Africans who had publicly disclosed …

… white community. Her father was a factory worker. All of Lutchmee’s siblings went to school, though the youngest, … from her older sister, Poomony Moodley , an active member of the South African Communist Party and an organiser in the struggle. Lutchmee herself was not an active member of any political organization, but she had many friends among …

… was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at … London at the Regent Polytechnic and the Heatherley School of Art. She lived in Johannesburg and also Malawi, but … the 1940s. Wright was influenced strongly in the direction of realism in her painting, which was in no small measure due …

… bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port Elizabeth. He became an active trade union activist, … (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). One of the chief organizers of the Defiance Campaign in Port Elizabeth, he became the …

… 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape , the third of six children [1] . One of her siblings was Neville Alexander . Since her father was … and soon became involved in the Teacher’s League of South Africa (TLSA) . In January 1960, she moved to the … Scanlon, H. 2007. “Representation and reality: Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976”. HSRC Press: …

… Jason's family was forced to move to the black township of Guguletu in 1960. Jason's interest in photography … Sunday Times, City Press  and  Tribute Magazine . Some of his photographs have also appeared in international … Rwanda, street children in Rio de Janeiro, the conflicts of the West Banks and the crisis in Kosovo. His photography …

… February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal and later … three Transvaal Provincial Champions in its first year of operation. Mthembu’s active boxing career was cut … the following year when he was caught in the crossfire of a gun-fight and badly wounded. Although Mthembu could no …

… the Progressive Garment Workers' Union, an initiative of the South African Trade Unions (SACTU), in opposition to … Union. Elsie met her husband, Billy Nair , a friend of political activist Poomoney Moodley , when Elsie would … at a fast food outlet in Clairwood, a suburb just south of Durban. She described the experience as ‘hard, but when we …

… In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student … #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of education and tertiary institutions in South Africa. [1] … decreasing tertiary education fees, but was also the start of the Open Stellenbosch movement. [2] The Open Stellenbosch …

… Correspondence College.He started painting at the age of seven and his mother continually encouraged the young boy … his mother’s brother having been Arthur Buthelezi, one of the earlier generation of African artists along with Gerard Bhengu and the Ntuli …

… (ANC)  in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the  ANC Women’s League  in 1954, and in 1955 became the … secretary. She was also on the executive committee of the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)  and played a leading role in …

… Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary school at Lovedale and … Workers' Herald and later. New Africa, the paper of the  Independent Industrial Commercial Union  (ICU). In …

… Johannesburg, which was also known as the Black Eton of South Africa. Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and president of the African National Congress (ANC) . Archbishop Desmond … He was always with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth and a cynical look in his eyes. Some people …

… He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was later withdrawn. As an official of the Cape Congress he attended the 1927 Non-European Conference and served as a member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) deputation to the …

… in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925. He was a president of the Orange Free State Teachers' Association and a member … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his grandparents. He was … was a flute that he made from a reed. At the age of 21 he began playing the flute and because of his talent, he was admitted to study at Rhodes University …

… and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the tutelage of Reverend Selope Thema , a prominent African National … member Joe Matlou . Violet Matlou was an active member of the ANC, attending marches and protest actions together … the 1956 Treason Trial and she single-handedly took care of her four children at the time. In 1961, Joe Matlou was …