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1810-1841

Rev. George Champion

… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from … from Cape Town on “The Dove” and proceeded to…

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1947

Henry Mshololo

… objects such as wooden spoons and meat platters. One of his special interests is carving violins and sculptures of angels. He has participated in group…

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1969

Michael Shivute

… Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa police cells … less than 24 hours later.An inquest…

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1804-1856

Chief Sekonyela

… He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His father was Mantatisi, who was … in 1823. In the early 1830s Sekonyela…

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1986

Clarence Lucky Payi

… Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the orders of a rogue MK commander, assassinated ANC underground operative Ben Langa (the brother of Pius Langa) on…

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1942-1999

Lucky Sibiya

… Seminary, Hammanskraal. His early art career consisted of carving decorative motifs on the surfaces of gourds for lampshade bases. He was given guidance by…

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1936

Mama Beshenga

… During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act , there was great panic and … give moral support…

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1954

Vincent Oliphant

… where he matriculated. He then went to the University of the Western Cape, where he did a B.Sc. degree with … M.Ed. degrees at Rhodes University. Oliphant's…

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1847-1929

Millicent Fawcett

… Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain … in getting this group put together, but was not part of the committee that came…

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1936

Lionel Davis

… seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage. It was during his prison years on Robben Island … him to complete a BA Fine Art degree…

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Hamilton Kraai

… Congress  (ANC). In 1918 he was arrested on charges of incitement in connection with the Rand "bucket strike" of sanitation workers. The charges were…

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Rev. Joseph J Doke

… the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from … Edited  Indian Opinion  in 191,1…

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1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… B.  Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he…

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1933-2002

Norma Kitson

… to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of four children, and had an elder sister Joan and brother … Her father was a chemist by training…

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1909

Frank Modiba

… in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer and received eight cuts. Modiba … African National Congress (ANC) delegate…

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Hannah Lurie

… She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London … for her bronze sculpture. She has served as…

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1956

Clive Van den Berg

… was a lecturer at the Technikon Natal. He has won a number of awards and has undertaken public commissions. He has exhibited on numerous group shows and has…

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1890-1983

Magdalena Gertruide Sauer

… Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to … with a colleague, was responsible for restoring a section of the Malay Quarter in…

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Alan Wieder

… lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of both University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University. …

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1954

Vincent Baloyi

… on the two-year course at Rorke's Drift. On completion of the course the following year, Baloyi joined the National … (Black SA Today). DAM (Art SA Today)…

B-0007817

1949

Cynthia Shange

… , alongside co-star Joe Mafela. Udeliwe tells the story of a country girl from Kwa Zulu-Natal to the City of Gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of…

B-0067940

1917

Elijah Thomas Zondi

… brought home an old box camera that he had dug out of a Dundee dumping lot.  On his thirteenth birthday he … then a White photographer taught him the finer…

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1955

Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono

… East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for  … old through a newspaper article. Sono…

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1831-1900

Piet Joubert

… Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, … Ingogo and Majuba Hill. Joubert became commandant-general of the Transvaal and…

B-0008220

1927

Lungile Kepe

… in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the  Defiance Campaign  for defying … Defiance Campaign, 1952. Accused in…

B-0008243

1942

Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold

… Skotnes at Poly Street Art Center and later was a pupil of Sydney Kumalo. From 1961 to 1968 he was an assistant an … his upbringing in a Protestant home, the…

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1931-1989

Richard Rive

… or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of a scholarship, Rive attended high school in Cape Town and studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT)…

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Arthur Butelezi

… and was apparently able to support himself from the sale of his art.  It is highly possible that the watercolour portraits painted by Arthur Butelezi were of…

B-0007904

1969

Jonathan Neil Rhodes

… especially skilled fielder and his acrobatics in pursuit of the ball are renowned. He seems to be able to successfully … disorder and, according to Kathryn…

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