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1928-1994

Maritz Barrymore

… He trained as a painter from 1950-1953 at the University of Rhodes, Eastern Cape, where he obtained a BA(FA). In 1954 … gained a Higher Diploma in Education…

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1907-1946

Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp

… was born in Carolina, Mpumalanga, 1907. She was a daughter of Bertha Everard, had a brief career cut short by her death in a Spitfire accident in England…

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Unknown-1987

Cameron Mbulelo Madikizela

… Madikizela graduated from Fort Hare.  He was a member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA). He taught at…

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1933-1986

Samora Machel

… Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. … he worked in…

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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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1773-1830

David Stuurman

… the Khoi and San people were systematically dispossessed of their traditional lands “on ordinance by the colonists”, … his farm. In 1799, the Khoi, on the…

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1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and … boy by nature, Peter suffered the…

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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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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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1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… and a prolific author.  He wrote 54 books, including five of poetry and one on depression.  De Villiers also composed a number of hymns that were included in…

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1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… His grandparents decided to relocate to Garankuwa, North of Pretoria to live with his aunt. Grootboom attended at Odi High School in Hebron, North of…

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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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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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1949-1985

Sicelo Mhlauli

… he was teaching at Tembalabantu, Charles Sebe, the head of the Ciskei intelligence services informed Mhlauli that he … Saamstaan . Mhlauli also became an…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…

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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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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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1956

Richard Steele

… in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very … volunteer in township soup kitchens at the…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, which included…

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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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