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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie … in 1959.  Gwangwa then went on to become a…

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… . With the SAIC he collected food and money for victims of the 1949 Durban riots and for families whose wage earners … League and the Youth Communist League …

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1918-1982

Bartholomew Hlapane

… Moru Hlapane was  born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A …  (who worked with the Defence Team in…

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1927

C. M Kobus

… C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the  Non-European Unity Movement  (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the…

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1937-2020

Andrew Clement Verster

… Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London, and an Art Teacher’s Diploma (1960) from … at Fine Art institutions in South Africa for…

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1975

Tikkie Sibisi

… single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his mother died during the ritual of Sangoma training) His father was a welder at Union ……

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1920

Lorna Peirson

… College. From 1963 - 1981 she was the teacher in charge of the one-year Special Art Teachers’ Course at the Ndaleni … Natal. From 1982-1985 she was Senior…

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1904

Joan Morice

… in Barberton in 1904. She completed the first two years of pre-veterinary study at the University of Witwatersrand, and the next three years at the Transvaal…

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James J. Majoro

… Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial that followed the 1946 mine strike. He was an organizing secretary of the…

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1920

Hymie Barsel

… against the Blackshirt Movement. He was secretary of the Johannesburg Medical Aid for Russia, during the war and a former member of the Communist Party of…

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1986

Peter (Petrus) Nchabeleng

… Peter (Petrus) Nchabeleng was president of the Northern Transvaal region of the  United Democratic Front  (UDF). He was convicted of sabotage in 1962 and…

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… a B.A. (Hon) degree in Drama from the then University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), he began acting and producing … in mainstream theatres. Ahmed was the…

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1942

Letta Mbulu

…  King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced into exile in the United … together they released many hits. She has…

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1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

… was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who … that he decided to turn professional…

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1908

Edgar Arthur Deane

… Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, … on the Cape Town City Council. Deane became…

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Max Coleman

… Coleman, they had four sons, and became active members of the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC). They were founding members of this organisation of…

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1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand …

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1976

Edward Mzolo

… Fort in 2 weeks. No details are available on the date of his detention,the Act he was detained under ,or the official cause of death.No information is…

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1941-1997

Welcome Mandla Koboka

… most recognised for his paintings. The subject matter of his work generally focused on life in the townships, … his work as ‘township art’ and noted the…

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1923-1966

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

… treason trialists. In June 1957, Judge Kuper acquitted him of charges when the Treason Trial adjourned. However, charges … any charges being brought against…

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1926-2011

John A. Mavuso

… times as a messenger and a shopkeeper. He was a member of the African National Congress national executive committee … in the Alexandra branch in…

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Barney William Ngakane

… Ngakane moved to Springs, where he served as chairman of a Liberal Party branch in the early 1960s. In December … 1960 he acted as chairman at the…

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1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. … his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at…

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1957-2006

Monty Johannes Motloung

… they were driven to Maputo by the current Deputy President of the ANC,  Jacob Zuma . Motloung, together with his friends … outside Luanda, Angola. There they…

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1880-1919

Cecilia Makiwane

… in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a … She sat for her final examination…

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Anna Tempo

… not to go home with the women. In 1922 the public opinion of her changed and she was forced to leave the house and … clinics and by the Child Life Protection…

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Tu Nokwe

… Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band … sing by their mother and she introduced them to the music of …

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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… with Joan Brickhill-Burke and Louis Burke’s production of the musical “Meropa” as musical director. In 1975 they … led to Ntoni enrolling at the prestigious…

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1960

Penelope Jane Dunlop

… She began her professional singing career as lead singer of the all-girl group Pantha in 1979. When the group … . The band lasted for seven years and…

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