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1968

Rebecca Malope

… hiked 400 km from their home to the Johannesburg township of Evaton to seek work. In 1986 Rebecca entered the ‘Shell … award launched her music career. She…

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1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… He began as a clerk before becoming a superintendant of public works in Tlhabane. Frustrated by the racial hierarchy, he left and from 1972 spent most of the…

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1921-1980

President Seretse Khama

… Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of the Bangwato people. Under his rule and with his approval, … Temple, London. In 1947 he met…

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1875-1966

Walter Gilbert Wiles

… was born in Cambridge, England in 1875. Wiles was one of the five artist-sons of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Of all the five sons, he was the most successful…

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Brigalia Bam

… worker with a post-graduate degree from the University of Chicago. In the 1980s Brigalia worked for the Women’s Workers Programme that was part of the…

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1955

Thamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali

… ceramics at the Natal Technikon, 1983-84. He is a founder of Art Communications, 1983-84. He has participated in … he was awarded First Prize in Sculpture at…

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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… to have his twin children put to death, as the birth of twins was believed to be a curse. Malahele-Xakana became … South Africa in 1947, after becoming the…

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1923

Diamond Bozas

… was born at Isipingo. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London.  He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts. During the…

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1931-1994

Lucas Ted Sithole

… in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was one of ten sons of a Zulu lay priest in the Zion Christian Church, Richard … himself Ted or Teddy, a…

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade unionist and educator is … socialist and Indian trade unionist. He is…

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1803-1894

Rev. Aldin Grout

… Upon completing his studies, Grout was appointed one of six missionaries to South Africa by the American Board for … they sailed from Boston to South Africa…

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1956

Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa

… Grassroots Gallery in Westville, Durban, but by the end of that year she relocated to Johannesburg where she curated … in Hyde Park, and was later appointed…

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1800

Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther

… Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The … raids and pretty wars. It was in 1821 that…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… Perhaps more importantly, he was elected as the President of the Student Representative Council.    Before returning to … and played an instrumental role in…

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1963-1976

Hector Pieterson

… Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of…

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1961-1976

Lesley Hastings Ndlovu

… that afternoon in grim detail: “A bullet wound to one side of his head, blood and brains spilling out of a large exit wound on the other side, the gurgle of…

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1951

David Lurie

… (Philosophy) at UCT before going to the London School of Economics where he did research and co-edited Millennium, Journal of International studies.  Self…

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1969

Kim Ludbrook

… photojournalism from 1993-1994 at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, England, finishing with a postgraduate at the University of Wales, Cardiff. After…

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Thys Dullaart

… in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a fine arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National Diploma in Photography at Pretoria…

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1958

Paul Konings

… to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town. While in Cape Town , he worked as a freelance … during…

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1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth – some give it as 1892, others as 1896. As a … he studied painting and drawing at the…

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1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… was several months pregnant. She was released at the time of her baby's birth, only to be re-arrested nine weeks later … her infant. She headed the media…

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1920-1969

Eduardo Mondlane

… Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was … at Syracuse University, New York. As the president of…

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1966

Andreas Vlachakis

… a National Diploma in Photography from the Technikon of Pretoria. He did his third year Specialization and thesis in area of documentary photography, "…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to Swaziland … a career in journalism. In 1980, Sisulu,…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of  March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…

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Paul Landau

… Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy … organised by South African History Online,…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing … Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook…

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1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’ Degree in … and obtained a Doctoral Degree with a thesis…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. … South Africa the following year to…

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