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1939

Jonty Driver

… After completing his matric, he enrolled at the University of Cape Town. He got involved in the student movement and joined the National Union of South…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught him the basics of photography and he started working at the Daily Dispatch … and later at the New African in Durban…

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1820-1875

John Thomas Baines

… However, he soon rejected this profession in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William … north Australian expedition. He was elected…

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1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… him in his artistic career. He also enjoyed the guidance of other artists such as Walter Battiss (1906–1982), Irmin … Koch (b.1940) and Emil Schweikerdt. In…

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1900-1975

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot…

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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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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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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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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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1954

Michael Barry

… 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until 1981. In 1985, he ……

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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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Cecil Sols

… Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1961

Brett Murray

… he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a Bachelor and Masters … University. He has participated in a vast…

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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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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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