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1911-1986

Esther Susanna Mentz

… Mentz studied at the Conservatoire of Music at the University of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she spent some … in various organisations that…

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1869-1948

Franklin Kaye Kendall

… 1917 to 1918. A dynamic personality, he was also a founder of the CPIA and served as its President from 1913 to 1915. For some years he was also a President…

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… interests in psychiatry. His mother was the daughter of an Edinburgh professor of music. His artist’s talents were first recognised in 1940 … Junior School…

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1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… his BA(FA) (Hons) degree in 1988. He was a founding member of the Zasha Art Group in Durban. He won the Maize Bread … Work in 1985.  He was a printmaker and…

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1933-1987

Eric Ngcobo

… and Mzuvele Secondary School, before becoming an Inspector of Education for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Culture in Ulundi. He was both a…

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Jean Powell

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the…

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1918

Charles Makhohliso

… better conditions for brick workers.    The Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the  African National Congress (ANC) , Makhohliso had a ……

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1922-1993

Rahima Moosa

… Fatima became politically active after they became aware of the unjust segregationist laws that ruled South Africa. In … In 1955 she played a significant…

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1910

Stephen Tefu

… born about 1910, he was recruited to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in  Pretoria  at a time when the … at a low ebb. Shortly after joining, he…

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1929-1985

Simon Moroke Lekgetho

… school in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. On completion of his training, he moved to Pretoria where he worked as a … healing, rebirth and continuity and not the…

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… for the Rand Daily Mail , Stein took on the editorship of Drum magazine , where he spent three years working with a staff of black writers, who would later…

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1871-1934

Theophilus Dymond Field

… Wells, England c.1871. He trained at the Brighton School of Art and became proficient in watercolour, the most English of painting mediums. He first came to…

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1975

Nicholas Hlobo

… to pursue a career as a visual artist as another way of contributing to South African culture. He obtained a bachelor’s degree of technology in fine arts in…

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1949

Bee Berman

… Community organisations and the resistance press used many of Berman’s photographs. Her photographs were included in the … South Africa: The Cordoned Heart …

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of English immigrants. Neither of Paton’s parents was highly educated, but his father was … his…

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1945

Achmad Cassiem

… Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He … that ended in the Sharpeville Massacre . At the age of 15,…

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1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly … the area to Mamelodi where his political life…

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1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… after graduation. While studying at the University of the Witwatersrand she took part in student demonstrations against the Greyshirts and the bulldozing of…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with dual British-South African nationality as a result…

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1948

Berney Perez

… technician while studying photography under the tutelage of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez continued to work as a … South Africa. He contributed to the…

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1951-2025

Rashid Lombard

… the 1980s, Lombard worked in the audio-visual department of a large construction company in Cape Town. His love for … for national and international…

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1924-1972

Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson

… Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson  was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter…

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1924-1968

Canodoise (Can) Themba

… (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare, where he acquired a teaching diploma and a … way they depicted “”¦ the harsh and…

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1878-1942

Paul De Groot

… He was subsequently employed by the Princesse-Tooneel of Cor Ruys in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and acted in films … ventures with his own company were a…

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June Rose Nala

… 1973. In September 1973 Nala was elected to the executive of National Union of Textile Workers (NUTW). However, as a result she was fired … Afritex three…

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1982

Victor M Mgadi

… as MK) operative, Umkhonto we Sizwe which means "spear of the nation" was the armed wing of the ANC. The establishment of this wing led to the ANC being…

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1814-1893

George Christopher Cato

… Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled in London. His … and trade at Port Natal, where a…

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1945-1988

Stanley Bongani Nkosi

… privately with Cecil Skotnes and became a decorator of lamp bases at the Artlite factory. In 1973 he became a … Macmillan and Henry Moore. He attended the…

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1974

Wim Botha

… is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town on the…

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