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1964

Thinus Mathee

… his schooling, he completed his national service in the SA Army. While at school, he developed a keen interest in photography. He photographed for the school…

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1956

Dr Hersheela Narsee

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School from…

B-0008747

1817-1887

Jan Gerritze Bantjes

… leader Jacob de Clercq's group who arrived at Blesberg, in the present-day  Orange Free State , during the  Great Trek  in 1837. He was appointed secretary…

B-0007822

Unknown-1987

Cameron Mbulelo Madikizela

… Madikizela graduated from Fort Hare.  He was a member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA). He taught at…

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…

B-0008937

1810-1841

Rev. George Champion

… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion joined the American…

B-0007934

1955

Gana Makabeni

… Gana Makabeni  was born in the Transkei.  He attended a Communist night school and joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in…

B-0008391

1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… to Healdtown, and a significant influence in his life at the time was Livingstone Mqotsi , a history teacher. After … one year. Then in 1956 he moved to…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… Barnard; Barnard was his father's first name. Gelata used the name Cecil Barnard until he left South Africa in 1961. He legally changed his name to Hotep…

B-0068433

1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited means. He studied at the School of Optic and…

B-0008991

1954

Lele Jacob Motaung

… Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical … .p.68 Lele Motaung was tried with…

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1927-2005

Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse

… was born on 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles William Hendrickse, … both school teachers…

B-0008153

1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she visited…

B-0008300

1941-2020

Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala

… in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the internationally renowned South African vocal group, ……

B-0009027

1891-1965

Dr Silas Modiri Molema

… 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief…

B-0068069

1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

… father Gana Makabeni  was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced financial … finance her part-time studies at…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…

B-0007812

1906-1967

George John Golding

… George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher … in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then Cape Town…

B-0008107

Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments…

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1943

Sindiwe Magona

… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona…

B-0008372

1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… diploma. He taught at Mthethomusha High before joining the Department of Education in Pietermaritzburg. Mkhize was a member of the  African National Congress…

B-0064851

1921-2007

Arthur David Bensusan

… was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College, … studies at Witwatersrand University …

B-0096200

1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand …

B-0097085

1938-1990

Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana

… on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth . The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at his home and went on to play with the Broadway yanks…

B-0095716

2016

Juda Ngwenya

… Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper,…

B-0123560

1961

Brett Murray

… was born in Pretoria in 1961. From 1985-1989 he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a … a specialization…

B-0008712

1955

Diane Case

… Diane Case was born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to…

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1908-1984

Frederick Hutchinson Page

… in his work, mostly employing either tempera or acrylic. The artist often claimed that he limited his palette to black … Page moved from one job to another,…

B-0008859

1966

Jodi Bieber

… Jodi Bieber has lived in Johannesburg for the past 35 years. She studied photography at the Market Theatre photographic workshop, a non-profit … career began…

B-0007853

1921-1976

Leslie Massina

… Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective who had been gain access into the African National…

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