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1847-1911

Jacobus du Toit

… history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of the Afrikaans language movement. In a series of articles published in Die…

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1909-1969

Dr. Philip Blaaiberg

… 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…

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1857-1919

William Philip Schreiner

… William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' including …

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Dr Gomolemo Mokae

… 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…

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1919

Isaac Zakes Nkosi

… Zakes Nkosi and Elijah Nkwanyane formed the cornerstone of the mbaqanga style of music. He played with the legendary Jazz Maniacs, formed … maize bread”)…

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1932-2009

Aidan Walsh

… 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,…

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… columnist, in which capacity he became a supporter of the Africanist faction within the  African National … trial apart from the campaign's leaders. He…

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1739-1793

Baron Joachim van Plettenberg

… 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and Agatha Petronella van Ammena. After studying law at the University of…

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1880

Daniel William

… Alexander was born in 1880 in  Port Elizabeth , the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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1935

Jeremiah W Dunjwa

… Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal …

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02-October1937

Rev. Mzwandile Maqina

… Rev. Mzwandile Ebenezer Maqina was born in 2nd of October 1937,New Brighton .He grew up in Port Elizabeth ,the son of two teachers,attended Lovedale,taught…

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1952-2004

Sipho Gumede

… 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…

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1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… 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…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… 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)…

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1917-2004

Villa Baker

… 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…

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1937-2002

Justice Gizenga Mpanza

… 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…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… 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…

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… 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…

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… staying away from work on 16 and 17 June, at the height of the Soweto Uprising. Active in liberation politics since … the period 1980 to 1981, he was the…

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1966

Jodi Bieber

… 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…

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1939

Jonty Driver

… 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…

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1900-1975

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… 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…

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1820-1875

John Thomas Baines

… 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…

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1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… 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…

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1907-1978

Hester Elizabeth Cornelius

… 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…

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1954

Tony Sithembiso Yengeni

… 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…

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1974-2016

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

… 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…

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