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Veerammal Naidoo

… Veerammal Naidoo, wife of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political…

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1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway … (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents were…

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1871-1952

Dr. Hans Merensky

… studied geology and mine engineering at the State Academy of Mining and the University of Berlin, Germany, and passed with honours. He completed his … region…

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1915-2003

Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima

… Kaiser  Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in … Bantu Authorities Act in the 1950s, the Bunga, the…

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1792-1852

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

… Graaff Reinet  district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella Margaretha and Hermanus Potgieter. He fought…

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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. … boy. His pieces included walking…

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1943

Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi

… in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … Sebidi was from a humble family, and…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at … home in Ocean View, when she shared some…

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1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… be moved to Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain towards the end of the forced removals period. His father, however,  passed … first time on a portable record player,…

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1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the court of the Gcaleka paramount chief, he was elected to the district council…

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1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a … degrees from that university, that she received her…

B-0009231

1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate … degree in law at the Turfloop University …

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David Anderson

… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and…

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1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… in May 10 in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he completed a … His doctoral dissertation, published…

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1955

Michael Davis

… Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

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1939-1997

Enos Mabuza

… Headmaster in 1964, and by 1968 was appointed Headmaster of Khumbula High School in White River. He was appointed Inspector of Education in 1972, to become…

B-0008354

1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him … through the London University-affiliated…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was approached by a friend who asked him to become a member…

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1958

Michael Sedgwick

… with a teacher, Virginia Engel, who was a former member of the Drama Society (Dramsoc) at the University of the Western Cape. She acted, in some of Adam…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up … estate outside Oxford where he…

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1938-2016

Judith Mason

… Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She … 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the…

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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments of King Shaka. The family later moved on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) in the Sotho region of…

B-0121675

1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

… near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … exhibition with two nyamisoro figures …

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1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… she was sent to school in Lenasia , an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg . It was while she was a student at the University of Venda that her mother…

B-0067467

1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… he won a scholarship to read English at the University of Ibadan. He taught briefly at the University of Lagos after graduating in 1965. But he soon left…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, who was a pupil of composition and…

B-0008969

1967

Francois Pienaar

… to Rand Afrikaner University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg. Pienaar enrolled for Law degree at the … Pienaar interests in rugby grew. He…

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1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a … which was featured in the November/December…

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