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1936

Lionel Davis

… seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage. It was during his prison years on Robben Island … him to complete a BA Fine Art degree…

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Hamilton Kraai

… Congress  (ANC). In 1918 he was arrested on charges of incitement in connection with the Rand "bucket strike" of sanitation workers. The charges were…

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Rev. Joseph J Doke

… the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from … Edited  Indian Opinion  in 191,1…

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1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… B.  Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he…

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1933-2002

Norma Kitson

… to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of four children, and had an elder sister Joan and brother … Her father was a chemist by training…

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1909

Frank Modiba

… in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer and received eight cuts. Modiba … African National Congress (ANC) delegate…

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Hannah Lurie

… She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London … for her bronze sculpture. She has served as…

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1956

Clive Van den Berg

… was a lecturer at the Technikon Natal. He has won a number of awards and has undertaken public commissions. He has exhibited on numerous group shows and has…

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1890-1983

Magdalena Gertruide Sauer

… Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to … with a colleague, was responsible for restoring a section of the Malay Quarter in…

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Alan Wieder

… lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of both University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University. …

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1954

Vincent Baloyi

… on the two-year course at Rorke's Drift. On completion of the course the following year, Baloyi joined the National … (Black SA Today). DAM (Art SA Today)…

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1949

Cynthia Shange

… , alongside co-star Joe Mafela. Udeliwe tells the story of a country girl from Kwa Zulu-Natal to the City of Gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of…

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1917

Elijah Thomas Zondi

… brought home an old box camera that he had dug out of a Dundee dumping lot.  On his thirteenth birthday he … then a White photographer taught him the finer…

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1955

Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono

… East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for  … old through a newspaper article. Sono…

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1831-1900

Piet Joubert

… Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, … Ingogo and Majuba Hill. Joubert became commandant-general of the Transvaal and…

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1927

Lungile Kepe

… in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the  Defiance Campaign  for defying … Defiance Campaign, 1952. Accused in…

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1931-1989

Richard Rive

… or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of a scholarship, Rive attended high school in Cape Town and studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT)…

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Arthur Butelezi

… and was apparently able to support himself from the sale of his art.  It is highly possible that the watercolour portraits painted by Arthur Butelezi were of…

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1969

Jonathan Neil Rhodes

… especially skilled fielder and his acrobatics in pursuit of the ball are renowned. He seems to be able to successfully … disorder and, according to Kathryn…

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1948

Gordon Mbatha

… approach to decoration, but each retained individuality of form. Mbatha often chose the bowl form to decorate with … acquired off that exhibition for the…

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1985

Bheki Zacharia Mvulane

… died in detention on 29 March, 1985. A fellow-detainee of Mvulane said: "I saw a white policeman in Katlehong Police … amiss only when he failed to appear in…

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Dr. Pholile Mpofu

… Dr. Mpofu noticed that the field of dermatology tended to be neglected by black doctors, and … woman to qualify as a dermatologist through the College of…

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1958

Victor Shange

… 1958. Victor showed keen interest in art at the tender age of 6 and his talent developed as he grew until he could … became a full time artist. His work…

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1938

Robert Cedric Wilcox

… Robert Cedric Wilcox - a member of the NEUM/Unity Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa),…

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1948

Justice Zac Yacoob

… on 3 March 1948.  He became blind at 16 months because of meningitis. Yacoob attended Durban's Arthur Blaxall School … LLB at the University College, Durban …

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1952

Andries Johannes Botha

… the UN(P) obtaining a BA (FA). He has served on a number of important committees and in 1983 was instrumental in … disadvantaged communities. He has…

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1945

Bhekisani Manyoni

… in Greytown, Natal. After Manyoni completed three years of study at Rorke\'s Drift in 1963 he was employed at … training centre in Mbabane, Swaziland. He was…

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