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1903-1985

John Koenakeefe Mohl

… and convinced his father to allow him to draw. Only patch of sunshine 1968. Source: artnet.com Mohl attended the … Namibia) where he studied painting at the…

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1978

Sibusiso Robert Duma

… his Philange Art Project based in Umlazi, a township south of Durban where Makhoba had built a studio space behind his … student, Welcome Danca. Together…

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1936-2015

Letsau Nelson Diale

… January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane … In 1952, he left Ga-Masemola for…

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1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the … Apartheid government; and it was situated…

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1941-2007

Hilary Mutch

… before proceeding with her studies at the University of Witwatersrand where her mother worked as French lecturer. …  (ARM) taking on the code name "Kate"…

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1962

Greg Marinovich

… The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest…

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1890-1978

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe

… Agnes Masango.  He was invited to conduct a massed choir of 3000 school children at the welcoming ceremony of King George of Britain in Mthatha. In…

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

… the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He … would later be the inspiration for his…

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1922-2003

Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker

… Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of G M Naicker . In the mid-1950s he served as general secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and…

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1942

Feziwe Bookholane

… , Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a … her seven years in the nunnery, she was…

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Mrs N. S. Lachimi Pillay

… Mrs. N. S. Pillay (Lachimi), sister-in-law of Veerammal Naidoo, went with Veerammal and her mother to Natal during the third phase of the Satyagraha . She…

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… communist movements. Four years later, he would become one of the 156 men and women accused in the Treason Trial that … death in 1959 at just 32 – five days…

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1934

Abdullah Ibrahim

… in jazz music as a pianist and composer, where some of his own earliest inspirations included his grandmother, … Khoi-san songs and Christian hymns would be…

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1827-1903

Janet Burnside Soga

… in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots census … that the family was then living in the…

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1886-1977

Mary Agard Pocock

… Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to … obtained her Honours degree in 1921…

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1952

Saint Mokoena

… 1978 he worked for an Iron and Steel company until the end of 1985. His first pictures were exhibited at the roadside. … on the roadside he was introduced to…

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1909-1944

Samuel Makoanyane

… was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His…

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1920

Jaydew Nasib Singh

… in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a contemporary and friend of  Nelson Mandela ,  Ruth First , I. C…

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1966

Andrew Tshabangu

… South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the Alexandra…

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1947-1972

Mthuli ka Shezi

… a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the Students Representative Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his…

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1922-2004

Sheila Cussons

… Gauteng ) and studied fine art at the University College of Natal (now University of kwaZulu-Natal ). She went on to study graphic art in … herself a fine…

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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16…

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1936-2010

Lewis Nkosi

… In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of Drum magazine , which was founded in 1951. In his book … NET in the United States. Nkosi has also…

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1899-1980

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

… was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He … Worker’s Union (ICU) ,1920s and in 1926 he…

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1897-1976

Helen Elizabeth Martins

… Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent her childhood…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo … at the Inanda Seminary (or Lindley's Seminary). Instead of following the…

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1882-1966

Constance Greaves

… study". The genre emerged in SA at this time as a result of efforts by the likes of Leo Francois to create a school of figure painting as an antidote to the…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now  Kwazulu-Natal ), South … dispute with hospital management at the time. She was…

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1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer … medicine, shelter and food. His…

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1928-1980

Kate Dinkwetsi Molale

… car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the African National Congress (ANC) . She was actively … involved in…

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