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… and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina … Johanna Scheepers was born in 1915. During the depression of the 1930s Scheepers and her sister, Anna Magrieta, went to …

… in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four … with additional income.   He matriculated at 15 years of age in 1926, and went on to read law at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a BA LLB in 1931, six months …

… When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist Statement’ was, she replied, … statement’ as such. Being a woman is only one aspect of who I am.” This aversion to being strictly categorized or … into a specific box is apparent in the complex layers of Searle’s work; characterised by a desire to belong, yet …

… was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved … by the actions it witnesses as much as by the enclosure of its walls’. [ii] With the arrival of the first large group of enslaved persons in ‘late March …

… was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal , a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an interest in art as a child, and by the age of 17 he was working as an artist, predominately in watercolour. In 1970, he brought some of his paintings to the South African Association of Arts and …

… 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist … In 1956, Boraine was ordained and received his Bachelor of Arts from Rhodes University. Later that year Boraine served as a Chaplain at the University of Natal (now the University of kwaZulu-Natal), and also as …

… Transvaal, 1st January, 1912 1 Since our last Congress the march of events has, from our point of view, been rapid. Many Acts … cheap Native labour and plenty of it. At the Nationalist Congress he promised to tackle the labour problem. He said: …

… at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport operator who ran a …

… in Utrecht, Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan Daniel and Louisa Steyn. Steyn spent his early youth …

… (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a descendant of a German immigrant, Johann Barthold Hertzog, and Susanna …

… She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square society photographer and Yvonne, … State Institute for Photography in Munich. She is one of the first South African women to study photography …

… "Nothing Can Match the singleness of purpose, the foresight, or tenacity through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set out to do:  to present to her country ballet of a high standard technically and artistically; she also …

… in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within the strict …

… . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town, where he became one of the most popular and respected lecturers. He was a …

… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. … South africa, 1979. Spread across the map like fragments of buckshot, two hours by car from Johannesburg, lie seven tracts of leftover farmland, united by nothing but their supposed …

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his … wife. His father's descent was English and his mother was of Swedish extraction. Norton's limited formal education was … after he had left school was a spell behind the counter of a store in Duiwelskloof in the former North Eastern …

… Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Sir Garnet Wolseley, British administrator of Natal, …

… Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and … from Boston University (United States), and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of York …

… Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was born of a musical family. Her grandfather and his sons were … amateur organist. Her mother's family included a number of singers in choral societies in northern England, one of …

… vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and earning power. For seventeen years she … position in Vienna, where she reigned as first coloratura of the famed State Opera. "Prima donna" can also indicate a singer of temperament; capricious by nature, imperious, and …

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on 5 January 1938 during the height of British colonialism. He attended Kamandura, Manguu and …

… in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home … he was ten years old and went coal mining in the forest of Dean, Wales. At the age of nineteen, Long joined the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal …

… King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth,  Shaka Zulu  was … Binns, C.T. (1963). The Last Zulu King: The Life and Death of Cetshwayo, London: Longman| Biography of Cetshwayo …

… Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, … was Mokgatle Mokgatle (Sekete) the paramount Chief of the Bakwena tribe of Mmanape of Tshukudu in Phokeng, Rustenburg. Mokgatle's … Makhura, T.J. (1999) . The New Dictionary of South Africa biography, Volume 2 . Department of History, …

… born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD … FÁ¼r Bildende KÁ¼nste, in Hamburg. For the most part of the 1970s, the artist became an active critic of the …

… father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his … mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced the ancient religion of the Zulu people. The missionaries forbade his father to … time it was still a great shame to have a child born out of wedlock. When the pregnancy was discovered, a scandal …

… cabinet. A successful businessman, he became the mayor of Birmingham, using his term to implement policies regarded as being ahead of their time. He was appointed Colonial Secretary in 1895 in the cabinet of Lord Salisbury, and was one of the conspirators in the …

… 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from … in Cape Town as a fitter at the Salt River Workshops of the South African Railways and also at Table Bay Harbour. … his apprenticeship Budd joined the Cape Town branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) on 25 May 1933. …

… in 21 January 1931 in Moria. His father is the founder of the  Zion Christian Church (ZCC)  in 1910. He attended … him closer to various church leaders and the inner working of the ZCC. After the death of his father, Joseph Lekganyane claimed leadership of the …

… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated to … and matriculated in 1943. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria, where he completed a master’s degree in Classics …