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… Eric Miller  was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After … the corporate sector. Frustrated with the media’s misuse of power he left the corporate world in the mid-1980s and … and since the 1990s he has covered various aspects of the transformation process in South Africa, as well as …

… out household chores throughout her childhood.  At the age of 14, Mabasa moved to her brother’s house in Soweto to … for economic survival, Mabaso began making clay sculptures of Domba figures. She explains, " I started because of a dream. It took a very long time, because I didn't …

… 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African … impress, as he was perhaps the most famous British artist of the day. Nothing about her association with him has come to light. In 1901 Edwards was a member of SADC and later joined SASA, showing on many exhibitions up …

… Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career … Merton Barrow. She became involved in developing talent of young and aspiring musicians. For instance, in 1990 she took a group of young musicians to the International Children’s Jazz …

… Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. He actively involved organising activities of the Defiance Campaign in 1952 by making Port Elizabeth an … base for the ANC in the period. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went underground where he …

… was then taught pastel drawing by George Smithard. As one of the first students at the Johannesburg School of Art, she became a foundation member of the JSC in 1916, and worked with Amshewitz. Like other …

… Hastings Ndlovu was a fifteen year old boy at the time of the Soweto Youth Uprising in 1976. He is widely believed … 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 death …

… Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, … received an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town in 1977 and then went to the USA where he …

… 1978 to 1983 he studied for a BA(FA) at the University of Fort Hare. Ntuli undertook further studies at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1984 to 1986. From 1978 to 1988 he lectured in art at the University of Bophuthatswana and at the Hebron College of Education. …

… Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and … Ngcobo studied at Adams College, Fort Hare, the University of Natal, and Yale University, where he obtained an M.A. … a Ph.D. in economics. While a student at the University of Natal he took an active part in the  All African …

… near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple and close associate of Ntsikana, a … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography , v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. …

… States where he learned about the political conditions of African Americans. On his return to South Africa, Khoapa … the Black Consciousness Movement. He then became director of SPROCAS (Study Project on Christianity in an Apartheid … under house arrest in 1973. This may have been as a result of his suspected involvement with the founding of BPC and the …

… in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), and a Native representative in … several Coloured trade unions and in 1935 was an organizer of the National Liberation League. In 1938 he was elected to …

… were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 under the 180-day clause (section 215 bis of the Criminal Procedure Act No 96 of 1965). He was  detained for14 days at the Pretoria prison …

… Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the … [i] Malinga would go on to make a brilliant career out of boxing. He started his boxing career at the age of 17 when he won the Natal Midlands lightweight title. He … , retrieved April 2015. |Supersport “Shades of Ali in South Africa”  …

… the Broadway yanks and later the Four Yanks. In a turn of events that would alter his music career, Pukwana met … group, the Blue Notes. This would prove to be the first of many groups that he would join. The Blue Notes comprised of four other members, Mongezi Feza, Nikele Moyake, Johnny …

… My mother wanted a better life for her children, a kind of insurance against poverty by trying to give me a prestige … the prison and farm conditions in the 1950s. He was part of a team of writers that included Henry Nxumalo, Can Themba, Es'kia …

… England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She … to paint. She worked, so the Press noted, "regardless of public opinion" (SANG Archival news cutting). Known to her … a prolific artist, always painting pastoral subjects out of doors, prefering for the most part the pinkish tones of …

… in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were … travels England and South Africa. She was a devoted member of SASA and a frequent exhibitor. In 1941 she held an … Miller Gallery, opened by Dr J.R. Derbyshire, Archbishop of Cape Town. Press reports on the event throw light on white …

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and … William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg. Son of two anti-apartheid lawyers, he learned at an early age to … a degree in Politics and African Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand after which he studied art at the …

… he won the award for ‘Most Promising Artist’ at the Artist of Fame & Promise Exhibition in Johannesburg. This motivated … Paris, France. Upon his return to South Africa, the state of oppression and struggle in the country dispirited him. Most of his friends were imprisoned along with the arrest of …

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near … in Johannesburg and they lived in Sophiatown . At the age of seven her mother returned to Mogopa so that the children … village. Her grandfather and others bought two farms, one of which was called Mogopa. After she had completed standard …

… and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA in 1949 and … Sekhuthe in 1953, he went on to do a PhD at the University of Cape Town, completed in 1961. Two years later, after a … remained in exile for 30 years. Ten years after the death of his first wife Selina, Kunene married his second wife …

… found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton, the rector of St. George’s. When the Bishop discovered that Percy was a qualified teacher, he asked him to take over as head of St. Paul’s Caradoc, a tiny school of about 25 pupils that was housed in the church hall at Salt …

… and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A friend of Nita Spilhaus ,  she joined SASA and was represented on their 1917 exhibition in a variety of media. Several portraits, a landscape, a woodcut, some … to write that "her exhibits reveal a great versatility of interests united by a very subtle sense of colour values. …

… Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the Santam … Technikon while working as Photographer at the University of Port Elizabeth. She later did freelance photography at the … Media, Port Elizabeth. In 1998 she joined the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the Vaal Triangle Technikon as a …

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the … Boers as intruders who were trying to change his way of life and refused to have his territory demarcated in 1888; …

… Simmers (qv.), for its "extraordinarily strong sense of drawing" ( Cape Time s 23.8.1937).  Hope had trained at the Slade and Central Schools of Art, London, and in 1926 won the Prix de Rome for her etching The Adoration of the Shepherds, which was subsequently shown at the RA. She …

… 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught. The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in 1938, and she explored … themes at this time, more concerned with themes of hardship and suffering than expressing any nationalist …

… mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic … Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Pretoria Art Museum; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; University of the Western Cape, Bellville; University of South Africa …