SAHO global search

1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… as Moses Kotane , Yusuf Dadoo and JB Marks . Following his graduation, Lipman spent a year working for the London … and worked in Durban for Bernard Jacks…

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1869-1948

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

… India. He was the last child of Karamchand Gandhi, his father and his father's fourth wife Putlibai. His father,  a lawyer and an important government…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… to go to university, so he did an extra year at school; his subjects included Greek and English literature, and he always remained grateful to his English…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… with no running water or electricity at home. His grandparents, indentured workers, came from India. His parents, born in South Africa, were flower sellers…

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1923-2010

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani

… no formal training as an artist and learned to carve from his father who made utility items for his community. He spent time as a migrant worker in … were…

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1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… 1950 to Jacob and Julia Myeza in Natal where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school education at Orlando West High…

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, … near the present day town of…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African … composer and…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… a ‘Cape Coloured’. At 17, he played cricket for his father’s club, St Augustine’s on an open field which was … he practiced playing in the streets of Signal…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past. His grandfather, a Talmudic scholar, had fled the pogroms in Lithuania to…

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Chief Maqoma

… division of the Xhosa nation. Implacably opposed to his father's ceding of the land between the Fish and … to the Cape Colony, Maqoma became committed to…

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1952-2008

Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa

… bombing campaign in 1985. Mbongwa was arrested for his MK involvement, and during his trial he famously subpoenaed then-imprisoned  Nelson … sworn statement…

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1952-2008

Colonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa

… bombing campaign in 1985. Mbongwa was arrested for his MK involvement, and during his trial he famously subpoenaed then-imprisoned  Nelson … sworn statement…

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He was an…

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1925-1985

Alex la Guma

… one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive … growing up in District Six, would have…

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1886-1963

Hendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn

… was the son of Jan Daniel and Louisa Steyn. Steyn spent his early youth in the Utrecht district, which at that time … lad of thirteen, and after the war…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… 16 October 1947, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six months later. He…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in … portraits of Black chiefs like…

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1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young…

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… the October Revolution of 1917 as a child, and this led to his socialist political development. During World War I, he was separated from his family.  He…

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, … he only attended one…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… 1886 in Pretoria from Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he started his art…

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… predominately in watercolour. In 1970, he brought some of his paintings to the South African Association of Arts and … to enrol at the Art Design School in…

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1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in Pietermaritzburg, where his…

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1913-1990

Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng

… (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to the Transvaal where his father had bought land. It was here that he…

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1954

Vincent Oliphant

… Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale Methodist Primary School, and his secondary education in…

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1901-1968

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews

… opened a café. Though exposed to politics at a young age - his father was a Cape voter and his cousin,  Sol Plaatje , a founder member of the ANC - Matthews…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He … of national and class oppression. From the age of 18…

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1906-1996

Laduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela

… where he received training as an inyanga from both his grandfathers and his father.  From the 1950s he recorded Zulu cultural and … myths in words and…

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