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1820-1875

John Thomas Baines

… However, he soon rejected this profession in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William … north Australian expedition. He was elected…

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1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… him in his artistic career. He also enjoyed the guidance of other artists such as Walter Battiss (1906–1982), Irmin … Koch (b.1940) and Emil Schweikerdt. In…

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1907-1978

Hester Elizabeth Cornelius

… was born in 1912. Due to poor living conditions and lack of opportunities, in 1920 Hester together with her sister … During this period, white workers were…

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1954

Tony Sithembiso Yengeni

… Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town.  Yengeni was a member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) under the leadership of Steve Biko before joining the…

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1930-2008

Walter Sidney Felgate

… Boys High School in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in … was seconded to Lisbon University through…

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1960

Dumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula

… From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications and in…

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1940-2005

Nesta Mathom Nala

… valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe,…

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1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… 1888 he showed regularly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and still sent work to them after settling in SA. … His love for a woman named Ada…

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1952

Ari Sitas

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head…

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1950-2008

John Alfons Pandeni

… Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and … People’s Liberation Army of…

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1905-1977

Hyman Meir Basner

… in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he studied law at the University of Califonia in Los Angeles in  the United States before … practice. he was a co-founder with Paul…

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Connie Mofokeng

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the…

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1906-1996

Laduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela

… myths in words and pictures. SchlÁ¶sser’s collation of his texts into a Bantubibel in 1977 in part addresses Christianity and its rejection of traditional…

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1922-1985

John Nyathi Pokela

… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth … years imprisonment in Robben Island for the activities of PAC armed wing Poqo …

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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… in World War Two, he studied engineering at the University of Natal then and spent eight years in Britain. Later he studied politics and economics at Ruskin…

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1954

Michael Barry

… 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until 1981. In 1985, he ……

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1853-1907

William Luscombe Searelle

… Luscombe (in South Australia) and an imperfect anagram of “Israel.” As a child he was taken to New Zealand and ran away to sea at the age of thirteen. …

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1947

Nhlanhla Benjamin Nsusha

… College in 1972, ELC 1975-1977 and at the Slade School of Art, London, from 1983 to 1985.  In 1988 he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in sculpture from the…

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1948

Conny Braam

… struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This organisation offered support to … the Dutch public. In 1986 Braam was…

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1777-1855

Sir. Richard Bourke

… task was to re - work the civil and judicial establishment of the Cape Colony. In 1828 he issued  Ordinance 50 , which … status with the Whites and could…

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1987

Johnson Ngwevela

… African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the late … on the CPSA district committee for…

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1960

Ismail Vadi

… was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the … for three years in the Education…

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Cecil Sols

… Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities…

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1910

Lawrence Nkosi

… active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took place. In 1956, 156 Congress … the…

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John J. Skomolo

… (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC national executive committee from 1949 to 1955 and … numerous conferences. While he shared…

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Conan Doyle Modiakgotla

… by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary of the Orange Free State African National Congress (ANC) and was secretary of the  Industrial and…

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Margaret Chuene Mncadi

… she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. She established a medical practice in … 1956 she moved to Natal…

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