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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… by his father to Mariazel in the Transkei, near the border of Lesotho where he did form one and form two in one year. … During this period he carried…

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1851-1897

Barney Barnato

… Barnato was born in 21 February 1851, Whitechapel slum of London. His original name was Barnett Issacs but changed … in the diamond rush that followed the…

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1938

David Nthubu Koloane

… The use of artworks for public education by the National Roads Safety Organisation convinced Koloane of the role of art in communication. Together with Louis…

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1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor. Wolpe was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand …

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1941

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

… born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg . She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. … sculptor. Barbara grew up in Witbank…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… she had to record in detail the post mortem appearance of various animal diseases and abnormalities. This was before the time of colour photographs. In 1927…

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist and a leader of the  African National…

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he was one of the strongest supporters of the Satyagraha Campaign. He was…

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1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

… education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township, south of Johannesburg. Other academic qualifications include a … a Certificate in Defence Management from…

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended Grey High … six matches for Sussex Second XI. He…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like … Serote,…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… for a Lower Secondary Teachers’ Diploma at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). As she had grown up under the guidance of her grandmother, who was a…

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1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool Jan van … his farming experience to win abroad support…

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1964

Pitso John Mosimane

… July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the coach of Mamelodi…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational methods that … interested in photography and taught…

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1916-1968

Leng Dixon

… the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period in Paris in … into elemental, yet animated line…

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1980

Clive Zamani Xaba

… offered at the African Art Centre at the Durban Institute of Technology under Langa Magwa and Thando Mama. Barely out of high school, Xaba in one of his…

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Abner S. Mtimkulu

… it later to join the independent Bantu Methodist Church, of which he became president. In the interwar period, he … many conferences, including the December…

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1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… Amid the many explosions carried out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto, who … Soweto. Petros Molefe and Benjamin Ramutsi…

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young Indians impatient with the divisions that had up to … Africans. In 1939 he was elected to the…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… together they became prime movers in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she … for some time at the Lenin School in…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

… was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of his participation in any of its exhibitions. He most likely saw no need to exhibit … 1915 to 1940…

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1927

Sydney Brenner

… intelligent and learned to read at an early age. One of his father's customers convinced Mr. Brenner senior to … at age 5. The young boy completed the first…

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1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His … Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO). PEBCO was an affiliate…

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1934-2011

Abdool Kader Hassim

… born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He … at the Dundee Indian High School…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… at Natal University for a BA degree (now University of KwaZulu-Natal -UKZN). At the time the University would not … schools throughout Natal, and by 1960/63…

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1921-1980

President Seretse Khama

… Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of the Bangwato people. Under his rule and with his approval, … Temple, London. In 1947 he met…

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