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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married…

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1926

Leonora van den Heever

… went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the normaalkollege in … Brink, and began her LLB part-time…

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1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble … the way she served time in prison, following…

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1847-1914

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey

… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van Rooyen). He was born near Winburg on 22 October 1847. After the Battle…

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1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … experiences with photography were as a teen when…

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1941

Mannie Manim

… He worked for two years as a technical director of the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg when it opened, then … some years, eventually joining the Performing…

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His father, … on to Lovedale. As a result he became a…

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1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve … , she was involved in political…

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