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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 …

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and inequalities of Apartheid made a huge … first act of civil disobedience was on 31…

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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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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined Orlando Pirates. He entered the international scene when he was…

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1851-1897

Barney Barnato

… his brother Harry to Cape Town in 1873 to seek fortune in the diamond rush that followed the 1866 discovery of diamond in Kimberly. He came to South ……

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. … using a…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg … experiences after he had left school was a spell behind the counter of a…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … for higher…

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John Gomas

… Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the  Communist Party…

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

… was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him Looksmart … she thought he looked smart. He…

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1961

David Hartman

… mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of…

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1949-2004

Matome Maponya

… Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an … homestead. At…

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of…

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1957

Anna Zieminski

… 1957. She schooled at St Mary's Dominican Convent and the University of Cape Town. In 1983 and 1984 she attended part-time courses in photography at the Ruth…

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1911-1980

Lillian Masediba Ngoyi

… factory, where she worked from 1945 to 1956. Ngoyi joined the  Garment Workers Union (GWU)  under Solly Sachs, and soon became one of its leading figures…

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Connie Mofokeng

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the ……

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started … his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady Selbourne…

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J. Congress M. Mbata

… at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1940 he joined the faculty of St. Peter's and subsequently…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo family moved to Evaton, a…

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1914-2006

Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo

… Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho . She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930…

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Mavuso Walter Msimang

… in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of…

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1809-1882

Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman

… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at … he offered his services…

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1893-1975

Max Yergan

… Max Yergan was born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and … to 1936 he lived in South Africa as a…

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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be…

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