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Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

… Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career … Merton Barrow. She became involved in…

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1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

… My mother wanted a better life for her children, a kind of insurance against poverty by trying to give me a prestige … the prison and farm conditions in the…

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1870-1955

Allerley Glossop

… England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She … to paint. She worked, so the Press noted, …

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1866-1954

Elizabeth Drake

… in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were … travels England and South Africa. She…

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1938-1990

Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana

… the Broadway yanks and later the Four Yanks. In a turn of events that would alter his music career, Pukwana met … group, the Blue Notes. This would prove to…

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1955

William Kentridge

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and … William Kentridge was born in 1955 in…

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1941

Ray Berman

… he won the award for ‘Most Promising Artist’ at the Artist of Fame & Promise Exhibition in Johannesburg. This motivated … Paris, France. Upon his return to…

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1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA in 1949 and … Sekhuthe in 1953, he went on to do a PhD…

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1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near … in Johannesburg and they lived in…

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1955-2016

Emile Maurice

… Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, … received an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Art,…

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1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and … Ngcobo studied at Adams College, Fort Hare,…

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1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

… near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple and close associate of…

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1953

Vukile Ntuli

… 1978 to 1983 he studied for a BA(FA) at the University of Fort Hare. Ntuli undertook further studies at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1984 to 1986…

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Ben Khoapa

… States where he learned about the political conditions of African Americans. On his return to South Africa, Khoapa … the Black Consciousness Movement. He…

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1911

Sam Kahn

… in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), and…

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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black South…

B-0095274

1966

James Hamakwayo

… were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 under the 180-day clause (section 215 bis…

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Percival Mdala

… found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton, the rector of St. George’s. When the Bishop discovered that Percy was a qualified teacher, he asked him to take…

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1939

Chief Malebogo

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the … Boers as…

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1902-1972

Rosa Hope

… Simmers (qv.), for its "extraordinarily strong sense of drawing" ( Cape Time s 23.8.1937).  Hope had trained at the Slade and Central Schools of Art, London,…

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1908-1993

Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial

… 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught. The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in…

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1882-1962

Florence Louise Zerffi

… and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A friend of Nita Spilhaus ,  she joined SASA and was represented on their 1917 exhibition in a variety of media…

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1970

Heidi Saayman

… Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the Santam … Technikon while working as Photographer at…

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1956

Willie Bester

… mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic … Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Pretoria Art Museum;…

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1943

Bonisile John Kani

… Ford Motor Company in Port Elizabeth Kani became a member of the Serpent Players drama group. It was here that he met Athol Fugard . This was the beginning…

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1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… was also born. Mafela’s family moved to Kliptown, south of Johannesburg in 1947. The family remained in Kliptown for … as a temporary shelter for many…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney from the east end of London, was the breadwinner at home. She worked as an … children whose parents couldn't afford…

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1941-2020

Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala

… Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the internationally renowned…

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1977-2006

Lebo Mathosa

… in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved … Mathosa attended the St. Mary’s…

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