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1938

Noria Mabasa

… out household chores throughout her childhood.  At the age of 14, Mabasa moved to her brother’s house in Soweto to … for economic survival, Mabaso began…

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1880

Ethel Edwards

… 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African … impress, as he was perhaps the most…

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1795-1836

King Sobhuza I

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born … in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… in London. In 1959 she was appointed regional secretary of the South African Institute of Race Relations in Durban . During that year she became … Arts…

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1945

Marlise Joubert

… and a BA Honours in Philosophy from the University of Pretoria. After her studies, she worked as a journalist … also has a son and a daughter. Joubert is the…

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1955

Eric Miller

… Eric Miller  was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After … the corporate sector. Frustrated with the media’s misuse of power he…

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1947-2006

Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga

… Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the … [i] Malinga would go on to make a brilliant career out of boxing…

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1818-1953

Emily Isabel Fern

… was then taught pastel drawing by George Smithard. As one of the first students at the Johannesburg School of Art, she became a foundation member of the JSC…

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. He actively involved organising activities of the Defiance…

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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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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…

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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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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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