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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… as a herd boy. His pieces included walking sticks for the older men of his village. A priest who recognised his skill arranged a place for him at the Grace…

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1939

Jonty Driver

…  His father spent time fighting in North Africa during the Second World War until he was captured in Toruk and … attended St. Andrews and spent his formative…

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1924-1960

Ephraim Chaka

… Chaka, Lekhowa David Chaka, Maniki Chaka and Meiti Chaka. The family lived in Sharpeville. He enjoyed riding his … every day to work. Chaka worked as a block…

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a…

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Diana (Di) Bishop

… eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic. During the celebrations, she refused to attend a military display, influencing her other siblings to do…

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1955-1985

Malesella Benjamin Moloise

… 1985 at Pretoria Central Prison for his supposed role in the 1982 murder of a black security policeman. However, the African National Congress claimed…

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1904

Simon Tyeku

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…

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1804-1856

Chief Kgosi Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His…

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1912-1964

Daniel R Koza

… Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed  Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and…

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1960

Ismail Vadi

… Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…

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1919

M. J. M. Williams Shope

… M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his … and Railway and Harbours worker,…

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1910-1969

Florence Matomela

… in Port Elizabeth , she led a demonstration that ended in the burning of permits. She was one of the first women volunteers in the 1952 Defiance Campaign ,…

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1947-1972

Mthuli ka Shezi

… a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the Students Representative Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his…

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Josias Madzunya

… Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931, …

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… after his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. … also…

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1894-1974

William George Ballinger

… in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British Independent Labour Party as an Advisor to the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union…

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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. After studying …

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du … During his studies du Plessis played an…

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1928-1993

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli

… on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick making … high school in Kroonstad ,then moved to…

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1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the petrol company, in the same…

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1900-1984

Princess Magogo

… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King,  Dinuzulu  kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen … composed Zulu classical music and was…

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

… in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing…

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1857-1941

Baden Powell

… was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His … by their…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one … Ann Frazer, with whom he came to…

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James Ford

… was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever showing with…

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1870-1938

Leo Rbc Francois

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the various art societies in SA into a single…

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1969-2019

Philemon Masinga

… (North-West Province). At primary school level he showed the skills of a good soccer player.  Masinga attended … Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented…

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1964

Joseph Manana

… KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an award from the Tito Zungu…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his … instrument was a flute that he made from a…

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1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… and three sisters. Along with her siblings, she attended the Tamil school Sathia Gnama Sabbai before attending  English school . At the young age of 11, she…

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