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1932-2008

Miriam Makeba

… born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg , during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was … Oil. Makeba’s mother was also a sangoma,…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… For over twenty years she unobtrusively produced some of the most original and creative studio pots. She used the restricted Rorke’s Drift palette of brown,…

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State … managed to slip through the enemy…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts,…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

… periods in England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown on SASA exhibitions in … acquired by the SANG. They…

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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his … on urban life in Mozambique, depicting…

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1945

Milner Langa Kabane

… in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925…

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James D. Ngojo

… He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was later withdrawn. As an official of the Cape Congress he attended the 1927 Non…

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1958-1985

Watson Mzwandile Majova

… Mzwandile  Majova,  Paulos Madiba,  Aaron Makwe,  members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we … Reconcilaition Commission prepared to…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh … his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon at the end of 1995. While studying he…

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Stephen Mini

… He was an early leader of the  African National Congress  (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…

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1958

Rooha Variava

… a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree … and her Masters in Philosophy in 1982…

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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Qabula was taken in to live with the O’Rielleys – friends of his fathers. A month later, his younger brother moved to … to their home in Flagstaff. Qabula…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … job that opened his eyes to the poverty…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… as it was an honour for Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer in both the city and the country. The formal announcement of the renaming…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying … on their marriage. It depicts the ways…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was marginal - letters to the press, membership of the non-racial…

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1870-1956

Honorine Margaret Withers

… Australian landscapes in Johannesburg. Always in pursuit of views, she often arrived uninvited on remote farms … The Press romanticised her as an artist in…

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1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee of the  African…

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1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he … Elizabeth in the early 1950s, he later…

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1940-1984

Gabriel Kee Kuboni

… Jabu, recalls that her grandfather, Julius, wrote a book of poems called Umlondolozi , which is now lost. He received … self-trained as a sculptor. According…

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1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… for the Kampen town, and later promoted to a position of a second secretary. At that time he was married to Arnelia … child, Julie Philippe Augusta de Mist…

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1919

Joseph Albert Mokoena

… between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand…

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1967

Hein du Plessis

… a photographer at the Corporate Relations Department of Technikon Free State whilst working on a number of personal documentary photographic projects. …

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Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata

… Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), culminated …

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one…

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1927

Joseph Morolong

… in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from … confinement…

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1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… (1844-1893), a former teacher at the Cape Town School of Art in the 1870s. He brought a number of tese with him, for five of them, along with fourteen Cape…

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1937-1999

Marius Schoon

… 22 June 1937 in Johannesburg. He attended the University of Stellenbosch. Schoon moved to the University of Witwatersrand to continue with his post-graduate…

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