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1870-1938

Leo Rbc Francois

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite … but they came to nothing. His death in 1938…

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Zulumathabo Zulu

… Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The…

B-0123661

Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of … for the eastern…

B-0068535

1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's ……

B-0007956

1959

Cheryl Carolus

… Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was … was selected as head prefect in matric…

B-0007922

1936

Luli Callinicos

… Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the … involved in the trade union movement.  She became a…

B-0007915

1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a member of the…

B-0068438

1925

Gertrude Shope

… Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to boycott Bantu Education . She moved onto … From 1958 to 1966 Shope was the…

B-0068449

1950

Mandla Langa

… now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up in the KwaMashu township outside Durban . He is one of nine children in his…

B-0099280

1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government…

B-0008941

1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to his last day. He threw himself into the work of linking the struggle for socialism…

B-0008515

1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade … was very active in the African…

B-0095598

1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and…

B-0009195

1911-1991

Taubie Kushlick

… Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to ……

B-0008289

1950

Biddy Partridge

… None But Ourselves: The media and the masses in the making of Zimbabwe , with Julie Frederikse. This involved interviewing and photographing hundreds of…

B-0008865

1930-2013

Professor Bernard Magubane

… near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a white-owned farm in the Colenso district of KwaZulu-Natal. His father,…

B-0095733

1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

… Doctor. Her mother, Helen Evelyn Zondagh, was a descendant of the Voortekker leader Jacobus Johannes Uys. Margaret was the youngest of their three children. …

B-0100307

1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

… Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University Education … a year. She was offered a scholarship by…

B-0122528

1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… medicine in Bombay, India, from 1939. It was at the height of the Indian struggle for liberation against British … He was the second Black doctor to do so…

B-0008657

1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… Simultaneously he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior … he was based for ten years. It was here…

B-0008789

1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… South Africans, Jele was exposed to the harsh conditions of colonialism and apartheid at an early age. His home-town … to join the fight against apartheid…

B-0070373

1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral letters … brother, a university student, who…

B-0125558

1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in … a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by…

B-0007874

1933-2001

Donald James Woods

… Examination, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism.  Woods initially supported the idea of separate…

B-0100300

1891-1955

Dora Nginza

… Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…

B-0124047

1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… Hoërskool School in 1958. He was head boy and captain of the first rugby and cricket teams. In 1959 he began … studying towards a B.A. Classics degree at the…

B-0068655

1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father … in Ladysmith in 1925. In 1926 he was appointed principal…

B-0009262

1871-1939

Robert Gwelo Goodman

… has special relevance for this exhibition. It is a view of the environs of the two main venues used for SASA's first exhibitions: the … the present Cape Town…

B-0008112

1918-1973

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus

… the school rugby team. During the Great Depression of the 1930's he was forced to leave school and seek … to scrub trams and buses. He was elevated to the…

B-0008049

1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s,…

B-0008338