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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

1962

Guy Tillim

… in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers, in 1986, and…

B-0009146

1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

… In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans-Nederlands …  in 1983 at the Rand Afrikaans…

B-0097055

1891-1955

Dora Nginza

… Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…

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1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s,…

B-0008338

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…

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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…

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1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… Hoërskool School in 1958. He was head boy and captain of the first rugby and cricket teams. In 1959 he began … studying towards a B.A. Classics degree at the…

B-0068655

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

1798-1872

King Mpande kaSenzangakhona

… Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. He was a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both…

B-0008679

James Ford

… England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever showing with the Society.Holiday…

B-0008077

1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise … eight (Grade Ten…

B-0077610

1897-1979

Edgar Harry Brookes

… in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the University of Pretoria while working towards a doctorral degree which he … he joined the Liberal Party in March…

B-0007888

1897-1986

Gertrud Theiler

… Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, ……

B-0009135

1770

Chief Dingiswayo

… Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand … or Ngodongwa) life. But as far as we know, towards…

B-0067421

1830-1913

Gordon Sprigg

… Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private … reporter before moving to the Cape…

B-0123390

1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… School. In 1941, he obtained a BA degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. He served with the South African forces … honours in jurisprudence. He was…

B-0086256

1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families forcibly removed from Alexandra Township, North of Johannesburg. This phase of forced…

B-0085550

1900

Esther Franks

… Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…

B-0008083

1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead of her time.  Though credited with introducing a modern school of sculpture to South Africa during…

B-0066295

1961

Jo Ractliffe

… is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the…

B-0121724

1942

Vera Gow (Adams)

… in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In…

B-0008119

1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… Artists, mainly concerned with the social conditions of their segregated settlements, emerged through the Polly … between 1952 and 1954, under Cecil Skotnes…

B-0008767

1880

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

… born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began … His efforts impressed his employer and…

B-0008856

1943

Sindiwe Magona

… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona…

B-0008372

Dawid Kruiper

… as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was the first son of the legendary San leader, Regopstaan Kruiper. Kruiper was the traditional leader and healer of the…

B-0087604

1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a … continuing for lower and superior courts)…

B-0008278