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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career. His father owned a … album titled Celebrations. The album…

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1969-2019

Philemon Masinga

… or ‘Chippa’ as he is affectionately known by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, … Province). At primary school level he…

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1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop…

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1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South Africa…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just … He trained as a…

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1940-2006

Louis Problem Mkhize

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … to undergo military training. He left in the company of…

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1970

Leleti Khumalo

… born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township , the North of Durban . Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became … in Sarafina , a production based on…

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1948

Paul Michael Sibisi

… no art classes at Adams College, he acted on the advice of Masondo and applied to study at Ndaleni Educational … he was funded by a bursary awarded by the SA…

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1933

Allister Sparks

… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … assistant director in 1967. In 1974 he…

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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at … him to produce a carved Madonna. This marked…

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1903-1985

John Koenakeefe Mohl

… and convinced his father to allow him to draw. Only patch of sunshine 1968. Source: artnet.com Mohl attended the … Namibia) where he studied painting at the…

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1978

Sibusiso Robert Duma

… his Philange Art Project based in Umlazi, a township south of Durban where Makhoba had built a studio space behind his … student, Welcome Danca. Together…

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1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the … Apartheid government; and it was situated…

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1941-2007

Hilary Mutch

… before proceeding with her studies at the University of Witwatersrand where her mother worked as French lecturer. …  (ARM) taking on the code name "Kate"…

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1890-1978

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe

… Agnes Masango.  He was invited to conduct a massed choir of 3000 school children at the welcoming ceremony of King George of Britain in Mthatha. In…

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

… the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He … would later be the inspiration for his…

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Mrs N. S. Lachimi Pillay

… Mrs. N. S. Pillay (Lachimi), sister-in-law of Veerammal Naidoo, went with Veerammal and her mother to Natal during the third phase of the Satyagraha . She…

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1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… her growing up at a boarding school under the guardianship of the Dutch Reformed Church at Platteland in the Transvaal. … the 19-year-old Du Toit offered her…

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1934

Abdullah Ibrahim

… in jazz music as a pianist and composer, where some of his own earliest inspirations included his grandmother, … Khoi-san songs and Christian hymns would be…

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1827-1903

Janet Burnside Soga

… in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots census … that the family was then living in the…

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1886-1977

Mary Agard Pocock

… Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to … obtained her Honours degree in 1921…

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1952

Saint Mokoena

… 1978 he worked for an Iron and Steel company until the end of 1985. His first pictures were exhibited at the roadside. … on the roadside he was introduced to…

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1909-1944

Samuel Makoanyane

… was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His…

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Unknown-1929

Hermanus Lethebe

… Towards the end of 1929, the Minister of Justice, Oswald Pirow, announced a new bill, an amendment … to the Courts, to banish any individual from any part of…

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1966

Andrew Tshabangu

… South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the Alexandra…

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1947-1972

Mthuli ka Shezi

… a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the Students Representative Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his…

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1922-2004

Sheila Cussons

… Gauteng ) and studied fine art at the University College of Natal (now University of kwaZulu-Natal ). She went on to study graphic art in … herself a fine…

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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16…

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. At the … a Coloured township under the Group…

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political … the prominent politician, Dr…

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