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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… spiritual quest.  He embraced and explored aspects of the Islamic mystical tradition called Sufism. For the purposes of this biography he will be referred to…

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1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited means. He studied at the School of Optic and Photechnic in Berlin and worked as an apprentice …

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Harry Moyaga

… who asked Moyaga to show him some drawings. He bought one of them and then introduced Moyaga to Brother Bral, who … Matsoso (qv.) and Thami Mnyeli responded…

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Doman

… interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the capacity of the Dutch to reduce indigenous people to positions of servitude, he became a staunch opponent of…

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1953-2008

Ivan Toms

… 1953. He completed his medical degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1976. This was followed by a year-long … 15 km outside Cape Town. At the time,…

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1846-1921

James Smith Morland

… died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804). He came to SA with much…

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1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both … as Orange Free State)…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale … the Post newspaper in Johannesburg, a…

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1895-1951

Dorothy Ruth Boxall

… , South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South Africa. She studied under Prof. P.R. Kirby of the Department of Music at the…

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… he was already studying part-time at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. The influence and guidance of Katrine Harries (1914–1918) is discernable in his…

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1940

Ebrahim Ismail Asvat

… from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of its Johannesburg branch. On…

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T W Thibedi

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, … he…

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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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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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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…

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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 ……

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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…

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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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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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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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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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