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1862-1931

Percy Fitzpatrick

… Percy Fitzpatrick best known for his book, Jock of the Bushveld and other children's books. Fitzpatrick was one of the leaders of Johannesburg's Reform…

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1819-1901

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

… Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries Pretorius, and the first president of the South African Republic…

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1920-2017

Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)

… and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the tutelage of Reverend Selope Thema , a prominent African National … member Joe Matlou . Violet Matlou was an active…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his grandparents. He was … was a flute that he made from a reed…

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Jansie Lourens

… Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of…

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1934-2010

Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu

… 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the first born son of Pasquale “Grovaa” Mattera, and the eldest…

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1961

David Hartman

… settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman … In his own opinion this trip deepened…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… Correspondence College.He started painting at the age of seven and his mother continually encouraged the young boy … his mother’s brother having been Arthur…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… (ANC)  in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the  ANC Women’s League  in 1954, and in 1955 became the … secretary. She was also on the executive…

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1932-2008

Miriam Makeba

… born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg , during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was … Oil. Makeba’s mother was also a sangoma,…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… For over twenty years she unobtrusively produced some of the most original and creative studio pots. She used the restricted Rorke’s Drift palette of brown,…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… most artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of the second intake of artists who commenced classes in 1971. The early…

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State … managed to slip through the enemy…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts,…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

… periods in England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown on SASA exhibitions in … acquired by the SANG. They…

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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his … on urban life in Mozambique, depicting…

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1945

Milner Langa Kabane

… in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925…

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James D. Ngojo

… He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was later withdrawn. As an official of the Cape Congress he attended the 1927 Non…

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1958-1985

Watson Mzwandile Majova

… Mzwandile  Majova,  Paulos Madiba,  Aaron Makwe,  members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we … Reconcilaition Commission prepared to…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh … his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon at the end of 1995. While studying he…

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Stephen Mini

… He was an early leader of the  African National Congress  (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…

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1958

Rooha Variava

… a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree … and her Masters in Philosophy in 1982…

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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Qabula was taken in to live with the O’Rielleys – friends of his fathers. A month later, his younger brother moved to … to their home in Flagstaff. Qabula…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on the south coast of Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. In early November 1959, Mnyandu … Native Commissioner (NC) in…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … job that opened his eyes to the poverty…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… as it was an honour for Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer in both the city and the country. The formal announcement of the renaming…

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for White students. She…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying … on their marriage. It depicts the ways…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was marginal - letters to the press, membership of the non-racial…

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1976

William Nomodi Tshwane

… dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family … report concerning the death released by…

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