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Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of … for the eastern…

B-0068535

1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's ……

B-0007956

1936

Luli Callinicos

… Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the … involved in the trade union movement.  She became a…

B-0007915

1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a member of the…

B-0068438

1925

Gertrude Shope

… Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to boycott Bantu Education . She moved onto … From 1958 to 1966 Shope was the…

B-0068449

1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government…

B-0008941

1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to his last day. He threw himself into the work of linking the struggle for socialism…

B-0008515

1950

Siphiwe Nyanda

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…

B-0008841

1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…

B-0007794

1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and…

B-0009195

1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade … was very active in the African…

B-0095598

1950

Biddy Partridge

… None But Ourselves: The media and the masses in the making of Zimbabwe , with Julie Frederikse. This involved interviewing and photographing hundreds of…

B-0008865

1946-2006

Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley

… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a teacher and later Director of the Durban Indian Child…

B-0008636

1951

Frank Chikane

… Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in … where he matriculated before registering at the University of the North …

B-0007939

1955

Shirley Gunn

… to her political work, she became involved activities of the trade union movement in the Clothing Workers’ Union. Gunn became part of community organisations…

B-0095599

1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

… Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University Education … a year. She was offered a scholarship by…

B-0122528

1859-1921

John Tengo Jabavu

… into his lessons. It was not long before he became one of the brightest boys in school and only a boy when he took … taking a great interest in their studies…

B-0008192

1955

Bantu Holomisa

… was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei , the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. He…

B-0088574

1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… South Africans, Jele was exposed to the harsh conditions of colonialism and apartheid at an early age. His home-town … to join the fight against apartheid…

B-0070373

1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral letters … brother, a university student, who…

B-0125558

1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in … a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by…

B-0007874

1920-2010

Robert Hodgins

… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I … even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my…

B-0008165

1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the University of the North (also known as Turfloop), where he continued with his political activism andbecame a…

B-0070372

1933-2001

Donald James Woods

… Examination, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism.  Woods initially supported the idea of separate…

B-0100300

1871-1939

Robert Gwelo Goodman

… has special relevance for this exhibition. It is a view of the environs of the two main venues used for SASA's first exhibitions: the … the present Cape Town…

B-0008112

1918-1973

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus

… the school rugby team. During the Great Depression of the 1930's he was forced to leave school and seek … to scrub trams and buses. He was elevated to the…

B-0008049

1956-1985

Andries Raditsela

… became deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (CWIU), an affiliate of the Federation of South African…

B-0008928

1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father … in Ladysmith in 1925. In 1926 he was appointed principal…

B-0009262

1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member…

B-0007813