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1949

Norman Catherine

… East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first … on wood, bone, wire and an assortment…

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1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court … his family was evicted from their home in…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

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

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1909-2005

Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier

… in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art … personalities. Gregoire left SA in 1935 to…

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1936-2010

Lewis Nkosi

… College in Durban. Nkosi began his writing career at the publication Ilanga lase Natal in Durban. In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of…

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1987

Mads Nørgaard

… developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work is, by and large, a body of social documentation. The…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… Girls High School. Jo then left home to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she … in London. In 1959 she was appointed…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle … which he worked as salesman,a job that…

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1977

Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy

… Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape Town based club, Cape Town Spurs. He made his first … in 1997 against Netherlands, when…

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

… African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in…

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1905-1977

Hyman Meir Basner

… in South Africa in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he studied law at the University of Califonia in Los Angeles in  the United States before coming to Johannesburg.He…

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1902-1972

Rosa Hope

… Rosa Hope's The Old Miii was shown on the SASA 35th Annual Exhibition in 1937, and acquired by the SANG, as noted by critic Melvin Simmers (qv.), for its ……

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Anna Tempo

… she returned to Cape Town . She continued her work with the young girls, and set up a house for them in Napier … with them as well, and convinced many not to…

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1709-1785

Georg Schmidt

… Georg Schmidt was born in Kunewalde on 30 September 1709 as the son of a peasant family. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 16. In 1726, Schmidt…

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Tu Nokwe

… he would encourage his daughters to perform with him. All the children in the Nokwe household were taught how to sing by their mother and she introduced them…

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). He…

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1947-2006

Eric Molobi

… 5, 1947. Molobi was imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of South Africa…

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1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

… Mandla Nkosi was born on 13 June 1962 in Pimville, Soweto, the third child of Joyce Nkosi. In 1981 he completed Standard Nine at the Sekano Ntoane School in…

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1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… Sizakele Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities…

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1961-1976

Lesley Hastings Ndlovu

… Hastings Ndlovu was a fifteen-year-old boy during the Soweto Uprising in 1976 . He is widely believed to be the first boy who was shot dead by police on that…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… was born in 1925 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…

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1947-2008

Mike Terry

… Terry was an active member of the British  Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) , which was born in 1960 after the Sharpeville Massacre  and succeeded the Boycott…

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1989-2001

Nkosi Johnson

… Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother in a township on the east rand. When his mother became too ill to take care of … changed his name to Nkosi Johnson…

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1918-1998

Mark Shope

… SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his … and Railway and…

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1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… He was born into a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he worked as…

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1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  He attended part-time art classes at the Natal School of Art, Durban, and he decided…

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1915

Gopallal Hurbans

… 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and was chairman of the Natal…

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1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… [i]  From an early age Jana developed an awareness of the unequal society she was born into, stating in her book … injustices, whether these related to…

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1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

… chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . He was born in Natal in 1918, began … chairman in…

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1916

Philemon Mathole

… in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later opened a…

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