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… was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of World War II , digging anti-tank trenches in his youth, to …

… enlarger advertised in the under-R20 column in one of the Cape newspapers.  In 1985, Meintjes went to study at Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town where he completed his BA Fine Art degree …

… high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He became the secretary of the Laundry Workers Union as well as a member of the ANC in Soweto. At the age of 34 he was admitted to the … of a Conspiratorial Clique , from the African National Congress , 11 December, [online] Available at: www.anc.org.za …

… 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German immigrants who met … she studied under EIsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London from 1909 to … to South Africa in 1912 she was appointed as teacher of elocution at the South African College of Music in Cape …

… Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in … his release, Fazzie became instrumental in the formation of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) along … in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and at the height of repression in the 1980s, is remembered for being one of …

… Ainslie in Johannesburg in the mid-1980s. Ka-Mkame speaks of them as 'milestones' that took his work to another level. His ‘love letters’ of the 1980s were created at the height of the turbulence of the apartheid era in South Africa; the …

… Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the … abroad to study domestic science at the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science. After she qualified as a domestic …

… in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes … initiates gathered in the indigenous bush in the foothills of the Northern Drakensberg mountains in a circumcision … With this series Hilton-Barber challenged the taboo of secrecy around such ceremonies, as well as that around the …

… born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi Lombard. … High School for Girls.  Faure had a post in a firm of attorneys and was at the same time trained in English …

… on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to the Durban Indian Girls’ School in … was the first Indian High school for girls. She was part of the first group of five Indian girls to matriculate in …

… Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His literary … Cape. He began his tertiary studies at the University of Cape Town in 1958. His opposition to apartheid saw him …

… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role … rose to prominence in the 1950s as a leading activist of the anti-Coloured Affairs Department  and the Non-European … He became well known during his time as secretary of the South Peninsula Educational Fellowship which played an …

… in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. The latter was the prime minister of Sweden, a member of the Hague Tribunal, and governor of …

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite … but they came to nothing. His death in 1938 marked the end of one era and the start of a new with the founding of the New Group. Francois was …

… Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, Booth was one of the earliest proponents of the principle of "Africa for the Africans." He was a …

… Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African …

… on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government declared it a … Claremont, Cape Town. He later enrolled at the University of Western Cape for a BA degree. It was during this period …

… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and waited for ten years to receive his first …

… on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the Urban Housing … now Western Cape) and later Princeton, United States of America (USA). He joined the Dutch Reformed Church ministry and was a tireless secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The first Afrikaans …

… None But Ourselves: The media and the masses in the making of Zimbabwe , with Julie Frederikse. This involved interviewing and photographing hundreds of Zimbabweans; researching, collecting and copying … from many sources and working on the editing and design of the book. Partridge was involved in the founding of the …

… step-mother, Maria, and step-siblings. The racial divides of the time prevented his parents from marrying and Tsafendas … who had fought against the Ottomans during the Cretan War of Independence. Tsafendas was named Dmitri after an uncle, … was deeply influenced by his father and the stories of his ancestors and grew up dreaming one day of becoming a …

… Doctor. Her mother, Helen Evelyn Zondagh, was a descendant of the Voortekker leader Jacobus Johannes Uys. Margaret was the youngest of their three children. [ii] Margaret attended Indwe High … University) in Grahamstown , where she achieved a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in physics and chemistry. She …

… 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, Louw’s personal relationships took her into Langa, one of Cape Town’s oldest townships. There she witnessed the …

… Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society for Real … to further his studies and soon left for the Universities of Halle and Freiburg in Germany where he completed a … to many towns in the Cape Colony, establishing branches of the society, but remaining a teacher. From 1907 to 1909 he …

… Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to … Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. p. …

… Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University Education … a year. She was offered a scholarship by the Institute of Race Relations to do a postgraduate course in Social … ). The YWCA had programmes and projects for women and one of the major challenges for the organisation was that large …

… (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the University of the North (also known as Turfloop), where he continued with his political activism andbecame a member of the Student Representative Council (SRC) in 1971. When the … and Abraham Onkgopotse Tiro emerged as leaders of the movement at the institution. The expulsion of …

… "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 experience,  my thinking,  my aspirations." Robert … he returned to England and was discharged after the end of the war in 1945. From 1947-1950, Hodgins studied part-time …

… 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in … a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by the University of Pretoria. After completing his studies he became a … he completed his MA degree in 1961with the University of Pretoria. His dissertation was titled  Streeksontwikkeling …

… 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 development but was critical of the way  National Party (NP)  led government implemented …