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1955

Diane Case

… was born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in ……

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1928-2004

Dolly Rathebe

… Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s…

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Piet Retief

… as Wellington today), Cape Province. He was the fifth of 10 children of Jacobus, a farmer  and Debora Retief. His ancestors were … Stellenbosch, Cape…

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1853-1917

Dr. Leander Starr Jameson

… Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his … for gout, Jameson was honoured with the exceptional status of…

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1906-1980

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi

… in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee … an insurance company agent and later…

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1909-2005

Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier

… Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his ……

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1910-1990

Gerard Bhengu

… Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, … his early education at the Roman…

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1987

Mads Nørgaard

… City and her people. His work is, by and large, a body of social documentation. The subject of his lens shifts: from exploring the transport networks and ……

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With only a Standard 6 certificate (but…

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Mavuso Walter Msimang

… ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of Communications’ during the Wankie Campaign…

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Esmé Berman

… was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and completed a degree in Visual … that she made the decision to write Art and…

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1940

Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers

… de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway … clerk, organiser…

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1910-1987

Mattheus Uys Krige

… be counted among the most dynamic literary figures of the 20th century. He distinguished himself as an author, … and lecturer. He also served as contributor…

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1966

Pule Pheto

… Pule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London … in…

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1936-1973

Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi

… have had a big showman personality as he was loved by many of his peers and followers. He became the first black South … 14-piece band in the country. Mrwebi…

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1865

Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi

… spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and his mother…

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1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

… to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art and design, which aimed at giving a foundation 11 both … applied arts. This was emulated at…

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1889-1916

Harold Cressy

… 1 February 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman Catholic Mission … the basic…

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1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district of Transkei . Ma Mbeki’s family, the Moeranes, are Basotho members of the…

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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… Sihlali moved back in with his parents at the age of 14, staying with them in Moroka outside Johannesburg , … in 1958, and had five children with her. As a…

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1924-2002

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

… Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up … Senior Certificate in 1941 and then…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… 1947, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at…

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… and human rights. [i] She was born in Nyeri, part of the rural region of Kenya on the 1st of April 1940. Maathai was of Kikuyu ethnicity. In 1964, …

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1905-1982

John Collins

… at Cambridge University. He graduated from the University of Cambridge  in 1928. Collins became ordained at the Canterbury Cathedral  and he became a curate…

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1810-1872

Charles Du Val

… Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and … associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape Town at…

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1927-2005

Kalushi Drake Koka

… Kalushi Drake Koka was born in Pietersburg on the 9th  of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after … in politics, serving as Transvaal vice…

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1928-2007

Lawrence Folley

… Orpheus Choir.  Lawrence was soon given the opportunity of performing some of the baritone solos.  It was here that he met the popular … Orchestra.  Marie…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef … experience brought Pierneef into contact…

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1903-1979

Johannes (Jan) de Klerk

… born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De … student politics. From 1925 to 1926…

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