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Jansie Lourens

… Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… Correspondence College.He started painting at the age of seven and his mother continually encouraged the young boy … his mother’s brother having been Arthur…

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1880

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

… Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary school at…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… (ANC)  in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the  ANC Women’s League  in 1954, and in 1955 became the … secretary. She was also on the executive…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… For over twenty years she unobtrusively produced some of the most original and creative studio pots. She used the restricted Rorke’s Drift palette of brown,…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… most artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of the second intake of artists who commenced classes in 1971. The early…

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State … managed to slip through the enemy…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts,…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

… periods in England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown on SASA exhibitions in … acquired by the SANG. They…

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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his … on urban life in Mozambique, depicting…

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1958-1985

Watson Mzwandile Majova

… Mzwandile  Majova,  Paulos Madiba,  Aaron Makwe,  members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we … Reconcilaition Commission prepared to…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh … his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon at the end of 1995. While studying he…

B-0008147

1945

Milner Langa Kabane

… in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925…

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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Qabula was taken in to live with the O’Rielleys – friends of his fathers. A month later, his younger brother moved to … to their home in Flagstaff. Qabula…

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1958

Rooha Variava

… a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree … and her Masters in Philosophy in 1982…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … job that opened his eyes to the poverty…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… as it was an honour for Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer in both the city and the country. The formal announcement of the renaming…

B-0068770

1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for White students. She…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying … on their marriage. It depicts the ways…

B-0099833

1976

William Nomodi Tshwane

… dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family … report concerning the death released by…

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1870-1956

Honorine Margaret Withers

… Australian landscapes in Johannesburg. Always in pursuit of views, she often arrived uninvited on remote farms … The Press romanticised her as an artist in…

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1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee of the  African…

B-0068266

1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he … Elizabeth in the early 1950s, he later…

B-0008576

1940-1984

Gabriel Kee Kuboni

… Jabu, recalls that her grandfather, Julius, wrote a book of poems called Umlondolozi , which is now lost. He received … self-trained as a sculptor. According…

B-0008282

1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… for the Kampen town, and later promoted to a position of a second secretary. At that time he was married to Arnelia … child, Julie Philippe Augusta de Mist…

B-0067298

1919

Joseph Albert Mokoena

… between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand…

B-0067980

1967

Hein du Plessis

… a photographer at the Corporate Relations Department of Technikon Free State whilst working on a number of personal documentary photographic projects. …

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Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata

… Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), culminated …

B-0093805

1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one…

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1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… (1844-1893), a former teacher at the Cape Town School of Art in the 1870s. He brought a number of tese with him, for five of them, along with fourteen Cape…

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