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1960

Dumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula

… From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications and in…

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1879-1959

Marion Gill

… from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, … her true medium when she went to the…

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1940-2005

Nesta Mathom Nala

… valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe,…

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1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… 1888 he showed regularly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and still sent work to them after settling in SA. … His love for a woman named Ada…

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1952

Ari Sitas

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head…

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1950-2008

John Alfons Pandeni

… Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and … People’s Liberation Army of…

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Connie Mofokeng

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the…

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1906-1996

Laduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela

… myths in words and pictures. SchlÁ¶sser’s collation of his texts into a Bantubibel in 1977 in part addresses Christianity and its rejection of traditional…

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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… in World War Two, he studied engineering at the University of Natal then and spent eight years in Britain. Later he studied politics and economics at Ruskin…

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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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1948

Conny Braam

… struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This organisation offered support to … the Dutch public. In 1986 Braam was…

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1777-1855

Sir. Richard Bourke

… task was to re - work the civil and judicial establishment of the Cape Colony. In 1828 he issued  Ordinance 50 , which … status with the Whites and could…

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1987

Johnson Ngwevela

… African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the late … on the CPSA district committee for…

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1960

Ismail Vadi

… was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the … for three years in the Education…

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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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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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1969

Vicky Sampson

… Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. … states that this “was [her] entry into…

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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…

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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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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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1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… a complaint against a police officer for the battering of an innocent Coloured man. Her family was forced to move … this time at gunpoint for letting black…

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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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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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