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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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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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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

… was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of  Springs ,  Gauteng  (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals … area made his family relocate to Kwa…

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1955

Dumisani Abraham Mabaso

… he headed the Fine Art department at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) in Newtown, Johannesburg, and … Johannesburg. Mabaso is a co-founder with…

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1888-1948

James M. Thaele

… born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until … propensity for high-flown language and…

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1917

Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko

… was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in  Johannesburg . He made his way through the … but did not finish them. In 1935 he…

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1859-1936

Meshach Pelem

… and King William's Town, eventually made him one of the wealthiest Africans in the Cape, rivaling such men as  …  for influence among educated Africans. He…

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1966-2012

John Hodgkiss

… friend, fellow artist and colloborator, Steve Cohen says of Hodgkiss, “But inside the photographer was always the … photographing extensively in his studio…

B-0085154

1926

Kesval “Kay” Moonsamy

… onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer of the NIC, and in 1955 he was elected its vice-president. … exile and worked in Zambia with the South…

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1956

Graham Goddard

… in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on the Cape Flats, in Wetton, Wynberg and, … on some personal photographic projects. The…

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1869-1948

Franklin Kaye Kendall

… 1917 to 1918. A dynamic personality, he was also a founder of the CPIA and served as its President from 1913 to 1915. For some years he was also a President…

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… interests in psychiatry. His mother was the daughter of an Edinburgh professor of music. His artist’s talents were first recognised in 1940 … Junior School…

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1961

Brett Murray

… he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a Bachelor and Masters … University. He has participated in a vast…

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1948-2014

Jan Willem Jordaan

… sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, obtaining a BA (FA). He taught history of art at Potchefstroom University then from…

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1911-1986

Esther Susanna Mentz

… Mentz studied at the Conservatoire of Music at the University of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she spent some … in various organisations that…

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1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… his BA(FA) (Hons) degree in 1988. He was a founding member of the Zasha Art Group in Durban. He won the Maize Bread … Work in 1985.  He was a printmaker and…

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1933-1987

Eric Ngcobo

… and Mzuvele Secondary School, before becoming an Inspector of Education for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Culture in Ulundi. He was both a…

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Jean Powell

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the…

B-0008910

1918

Charles Makhohliso

… better conditions for brick workers.    The Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the  African National Congress (ANC) , Makhohliso had a ……

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1922-1993

Rahima Moosa

… Fatima became politically active after they became aware of the unjust segregationist laws that ruled South Africa. In … In 1955 she played a significant…

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of English immigrants. Neither of Paton’s parents was highly educated, but his father was … his…

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1929-1985

Simon Moroke Lekgetho

… school in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. On completion of his training, he moved to Pretoria where he worked as a … healing, rebirth and continuity and not the…

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… for the Rand Daily Mail , Stein took on the editorship of Drum magazine , where he spent three years working with a staff of black writers, who would later…

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1871-1934

Theophilus Dymond Field

… Wells, England c.1871. He trained at the Brighton School of Art and became proficient in watercolour, the most English of painting mediums. He first came to…

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1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg from 1957 to 1959.After four … years later he encountered the…

B-0080398

1930

Zachius Botlhoko Molete

… was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His father was a teacher. … December 1949 he met  A. P. Mda  at the…

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