SAHO global search

1991

Mokgadi Caster Semenya

… later went on to study Sports Science at the University of North West. In the African Junior Championships in 2009, … won both the 800 meters (m) and 1500m…

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… for a Diploma in Commercial Art at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT, now Durban University of Technology) in 1962. She also did part-time studies with…

B-0067163

1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings died in childhood. Mhlaba attended school at ……

B-0008557

1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where his father was a principal at a … first piano lessons. He also became…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s … He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km)…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster…

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1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible freedoms…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the…

B-0008478

1935

Esther Mahlangu

… in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following … in executing murals as a teenager, using a…

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1893-1975

Max Yergan

… born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield … 1920 to 1936 he lived in South Africa as…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a crusader for better … following…

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1948-1985

Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country … autobiography, 1984)…

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1925-1961

Frantz Fanon

… He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His…

B-0098687

1976

Dean Hutton

… their experiences made them tend towards being an observer of people more than a participant. They constantly drew sketches of people, striving for realism -…

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1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, … several books and wrote poetry to accompany…

B-0008370

1927-2013

Francois Roux

… 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies … Roux, a master draughtsman, is…

B-0096207

1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.  André Philippus Brink was born on 29 May 1935, in Vrede…

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Mme Makwena Matlala

… District, Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo )] because of the attitude of the Acting Chieftainess”¦much difficulty was and is still experienced.’ Makwena…

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1949

Lefifi Tladi

… Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now … a youth club known as De-Olympia in the…

B-0122542

1963

Jeremy Vearey

… ‘informal’ settlement in a large family, with both sets of families.His grandfather and father did all the slaughtering of animals in the area, a skill which…

B-0125539

1959

Gideon Mendel

… on 31st  August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town  where he majored in African Economic History ……

B-0008543

1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo herded…

B-0008285

1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She … after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The…

B-0008056

1933-2012

Evelina de Bruin

… on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape . In the early days of her life, her parents moved to Upington . They…

B-0094076

1857-1941

Baden Powell

… Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His father died when he was 3 years old … devoted…

B-0007805

1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight children. As a young child, he already…

B-0008186

1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the University…

B-0009203

1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council he … between…

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