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… 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 homeless children. She laid the foundation of health services in New Brighton location, Port Elizabeth, …

… 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 second woman to …

… became deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (CWIU), an affiliate of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU).  During this period … Ness, Immanuel (ed).  The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest , (Blackwell Publishing, 2009), …

… 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 GPO now stands. This was a window of a room once referred to as "the finest studio in South …

… 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 position of conductor and later got involved in the Johannesburg … Union (JMTWU). Erasmus was influenced by the President of the JMTWU, Johannes Jacobus (Jan) Venter. On 23 June 1943 …

… some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral letters … brother, a university student, who spoke about the effects of apartheid and resistance to apartheid.Kearney taught at … late 1960s completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Natal and a teacher's diploma from the University of the …

… 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 of the white Native Representatives Council (NRC) in the … change parliamentary debate from one focusing on control of the black population to one concentrating on the long-term …

… 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 Time in Cape …

… 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), Moseneke was arrested, and convicted of participating in anti-apartheid activity. He was sentenced …

… 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 University (now University of Johannesburg). She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in literature from the University of Witwatersrand in 2012. Miles intermittently taught Art …

… Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, … graduated with a BSc degree in 1918. She spent a number of years overseas doing postgraduate work in helminthology, …

… 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 1962, after many of its leaders had been detained during the 1960 emergency … begun to use its banning powers against the main leaders of the party. Brookes was 27 when he published a major work.  …

… 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 University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in the hopes of becoming a Dutch Reformed Church Minister. He transferred …

… 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 since then has … (South Africa) for photojournalism in 1998 for his essay of images entitled: Congo River - journey from Kinsangani to …

… 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 preceded him as kings of the Zulu. He was born in Babanango, Zululand. Mpande was …

… 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 removals of African families from Alexandra … Association,(1992), Medicine betrayed: the participation of doctors in human rights abuses, (London), p.139.|Argus …

… 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 made an Honorary Fellow of the College. In 1949, Kentridge was admitted to the … appointed Senior Counsel in 1965 and appointed chairperson of the Johannesburg Bar Council from 1972 to 1973. Five years …

… 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 Colony in 1858 because of health reasons. He acquired a farm near East London, in … in local politics, concerned especially with questions of frontier security, as his farm was situated at the …

… 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 the end of the eighteenth century Godongwana (Dingiswayo's name …

… 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 her early career, she was often criticized for her use of avant-garde images.  As a woman artist, she experienced …

… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became leader of the separatist African Orthodox Church(AOC) that was … for an insurance company.Alexander joined was an officer of the Pretoria branch of the African People's Organization …

… is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the untold stories of the aftermath of conflict. Her work engages with the remnants and vestiges …

… Artists, mainly concerned with the social conditions of their segregated settlements, emerged through the Polly … between 1952 and 1954, under Cecil Skotnes. His experience of the shantytowns and townships of the Witwatersrand formed the focus of his work. …

… 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 Evaton, Gow was immersed in an ethos of music and culture, and sang at church and at community …

… 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 Khomani San, hunter-gatherers living in the Kalahari Desert. He became leader of the //Sa! Makai in 1987. Kruiper was well known for his …

… 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 earned her secondary and … in Social Work at Columbia University in the United States of America. Magona is one of many internationally prominent …

… Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a … continuing for lower and superior courts) and the training of public prosecutors and practising advocates.   Since then … He has also served as a judge in the final round of the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. He is an …

… Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his … his hand badly mangled. Yutar studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on a scholarship where he was awarded a …

… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. In 1955 … stay. She visited her father, Professor D.D.T. Jabavu , of Fort Hare, as well as relatives in the Eastern Cape and …