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1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. … Cator Manor and subsequent forced…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… the young Bizos was at school in Kalamata, which was near his home town, Vasilitsi, where his father was a prominent citizen, having been the mayor at ……

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1933-1986

Florence Barbara Ribeiro

… December 1986. She may have had a premonition of her early death as she told her children on more than one occasion that …

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1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… Mpumlwana, who had also been imprisoned. After Biko’s death in 1977 and the banning of several Black Consciousness …

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1926-1982

Poomoney Moodley

… with political prisoners on Robben Island up until her death, even sending them some of them money from her meagre …

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an English … school. In 1874 the family moved to…

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1953-2014

Russel Botman

… Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His mother had supported his family by working as a typist for the “coloured” … Orange Free State …

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… as an accountant, he later changed to law and served his articles in Durban with J.N. Singh. In 1945 he joined the … a year and a half later, the government…

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1949

Norman Catherine

… at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibitionin 1969. This exhibition consisted … assortment of found objects. The following…

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… January 1911 to six weeks in prison. He requested to join his father in the first batch of Satyagrahis from Phoenix, … authorities. General Lukin was present…

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1941-2010

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche

… fought as a Cape rebel in the  Second Boer War .  His father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the then  South … Defence Force  and also the head of the Commando…

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1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… 1935 in Sophiatown , Johannesburg. He often accompanied his father, a house painter to work. During this time, the … years 1958 to 1960, Skotnes arranged for…

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1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During this … J G Strijdom …

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1945

Achmad Cassiem

… government. At the age of 17, Cassiem together with his teacher, Sadiq Isaacs, was arrested. Isaacs was … by the security police and denied access to a…

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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was forced … to leave school because he could not…

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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… only child of Miriam and Ezekiel Modise. Modise completed his Junior Certificate at the Fred Clark Memorial School in … He had to leave school in order to…

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1874-1932

Michiel Hendrik Nesser

… Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter Scott and Jacob van…

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1954

Bheki Myeni

… Myeni's parents died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in … sticks and making clay models when he…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

… with photography since an early age he decided to make it his career and decided to study photography. He completed his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… went to the University College of Zululand, completing his BA in History and Anthropology in 1965. In 1967 he obtained his University Education Diploma…

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1930-2018

Billy Modise

… an Anglican scholarship which enabled him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial discrimination … imposed by apartheid which forced…

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1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, where he spent his childhood. [1] In an interview with Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Mpofu said he and his family lived in abject…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he grew up near Vereeniging. His father was a carpenter and preacher and his mother a counselor and midwife who was also gifted…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… the banishment order. The official reasons provided for his banishment were that, fromSeptember 1957, Mnyaunduwas the … [Bantu Affairs Department] officials…

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Molefe Pheto

… a Black Theatre group in soweto and he is widely known for his poetry and prose. He was the founding member and … Literature Institute (MDALI) that was based…

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1906-1980

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi

… better wages and working conditions. From June 1948, until his retirement from the union, he was involved in … African Cricket Board from 1956-1970 when he…

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1964

Thinus Mathee

… Mathee was born in Harrismith. After completed his schooling, he completed his national service in the SA Army. While at school, he … He photographed for the…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… in Vryheid, Natal, where he attended Inkmana High School. His parents were schoolteachers. He moved to Johannesburg … poems based on experiences in the…

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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… up as an Indian but was "reclassified" Coloured in 1957. His father was an accountant born in India and his mother was classified as Malay.As a teenager he…

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1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

… 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste later in life…

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