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… on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. … boy. His pieces included walking sticks for the older men of his village. A priest who recognised his skill arranged a … panels and other carvings decorated the pulpits of St Mary’s Anglican Cathedral in Johannesburg and other …

… in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … Sebidi was from a humble family, and with limited means of obtaining formal education, circumstances forced Sebedi to … and in her own time, she pursued her emerging sense of creativity. One day her work was discovered by her …

… Kaiser  Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in … Bantu Authorities Act in the 1950s, the Bunga, the council of Transkei chiefs, rejected it. Matanzima, however, … as Prime Minister. His brother George became the Minister of Justice. But it was independence in name only – the …

… studied geology and mine engineering at the State Academy of Mining and the University of Berlin, Germany, and passed with honours. He completed his … region and in Silesia and began work for the Department of Mines in East Prussia. In 1904 Dr Merensky came to South …

… Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife … and later went on to study at the American University of Paris where he acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Affairs in … Walls Come Tumbling Down:The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge. Pan …

… Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the …

… "Huis aen de drie grachten" next door to the old premises of the Gemeentelijke Universiteit of Amsterdam. From the outset his customers were bookish … lay an iron will. During the German occupation of the Netherlands he produced fifty illegal publications …

… school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him … through the London University-affiliated Premier School of Journalism and Authorship. At the same time, he worked as … township. He published his first poetry collection, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum , in 1971. South African writer Nadine …

… parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was approached by a friend who asked him to become a member of the “National Committee for Liberation”, a secret sabotage … detention law and later sentenced, with other members of the African Resistance Movement (ARM), to seven years’ …

… Headmaster in 1964, and by 1968 was appointed Headmaster of Khumbula High School in White River. He was appointed Inspector of Education in 1972, to become one of the youngest Black educationists in his country. He became …

… with a teacher, Virginia Engel, who was a former member of the Drama Society (Dramsoc) at the University of the Western Cape. She acted, in some of Adam Small’s plays, like “Kanna hy ko hystoe”, which …

… was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up … estate outside Oxford where he enjoyed the privileges of the British upper class, but later rebelled against what he perceived to be the pretentious snobbery of that environment. Bailey was educated at Winchester and …

… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the injustices of our past; Honour … both sides. The government declared the African National Congress a banned organisation, and in the next few years …

… "The Road Not Taken" To a great extent that has been true of the past thirty years of my life ”” I have followed the road "less travelled by", … to his people, to his organisation, the African National Congress, as he called upon State President Botha to renounce …

… Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She … 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a BA Degree in … Art. She married Professor Revil John Mason, former head of the Archaeology Department University of the …

… His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments of King Shaka. The family later moved on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) in the Sotho region of the Orange Free State, higher up in the Drakensberg … Isaiah Shembe’s father was Mayekisa, who was the son of Nhliziyo. They were from the Ntungwa tribe with the …

… she was sent to school in Lenasia , an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg . It was while she was a student at the University of Venda that her mother entered her for the Miss South … pageant. The title, Miss South Africa, created a number of opportunities for Kumalo. Before she was crowned she was …

… he won a scholarship to read English at the University of Ibadan. He taught briefly at the University of Lagos after graduating in 1965. But he soon left that … the conflict, Saro-Wiwa supported the government’s goal of preventing the state of Biafra from seceding. He gained an …

… near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … exhibition with two nyamisoro figures (seated figures of traditional healers). Based on the traditional Tsonga … removable heads with bodies hollowed out for the storage of medicines but they are much larger and carved in one …

… be moved to Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain towards the end of the forced removals period. His father, however,  passed … first time on a portable record player, owned by friends of his older sister. These friends worked on the boats and … as well as the B-Boy dance culture. Despite the state of emergency in the 1980s, Ready D and his friends would find …

… Ba. But by far the most vivid recollections I have are of his two final years, which were often spent in Delhi, … this point of time - 1924 - Maulana Muhammad Ali was the Congress President. His house stood on the Ridge from where, … community in South Africa. He had founded the Natal Indian Congress and had also discovered good lieutenants to whom he …

… van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, who was a pupil of composition and theory with Rimsky Korsakoff, at the … socio-political issues. In 1961 he published a series of drawings titles ‘Sharpeville’, as a comment on the …

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at … home in Ocean View, when she shared some intimate memories of her life in Simon’s Town ………………… I was born in Alfred Lane …

… Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to … him suffering from congestive cardiac failure. The effects of this were huge cardiac swelling, irregular heartbeat, extreme shortness of breath, a heart incapable of maintaining normal output so …

… Leon went on to register a law degree with the  University of Witwatersrand . His leadership qualities manifested … still at Witwatersrand University. He was the president of the Law Student Council and deputy President of the Student Representative Council. While still at Wits he …

… in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church. His strong Afrikaner … Potgieter, D. J. (1972). Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa, Vol.6 , Nasou: Cape Town, p. 169.| D F …

… Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an … sculptures date to the 1960s, although it is the work of the 1980s and later that became widely known and … in northern Limpopo. He selected a particular site on top of a hill, where there were the remains of Iron Age stone …

… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan Africanist Congress: "The Committee decided to suspend the assistance … In the meantime, Tanzania and Zambia, with the assistance of the Executive Secretary (ALC), were called upon to exert …

… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan Africanist Congress: "The Committee decided to suspend the assistance … In the meantime, Tanzania and Zambia, with the assistance of the Executive Secretary (ALC), were called upon to exert …