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Dilizantaba Mji

… Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he…

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1923-1960

Howard S. Ngcobo

… was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He worked for a time…

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Arthur Butelezi

… Butelezi was educated at the Wesleyan Methodist School, Volks rust where he received … Training School in Pretoria where painting was included in the…

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… engineering at Howard College in Natal before serving in the Royal Navy. After World War II he became a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail . After serving as…

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1913

John Watt (Jack) Grossert

… (FA) at Natal University College; and 1967-69 a DPhil. at the University of Stellenbosch. From 1935-1948 he was an art teacher with the Durban-Natal…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… High School (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University,…

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1957-2011

Gisele Wulfsohn

… and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the Johannesburg College of Art, after which she joined The Star newspaper in 1979, where she worked as…

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1936

Mama Beshenga

… During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act , there was …

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1862-1945

Anton van Wouw

… Netherlands on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of…

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Thys Dullaart

… in Photography at Pretoria Technikon. He was a lecturer at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg during 1995 and 1996. In 1999…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal … as a sapper in World War Two,…

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1954

Michael Barry

… Safmarine. In 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until … Michaelis,…

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Pious Goodman Mei

… Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile…

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1846-1921

James Smith Morland

… descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804). He came to SA with … him well. Primarily a water colourist,…

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1930-2015

Maggie Smith

… Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the press…

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1949-2010

Robert Edward Jansen

… musician, Robert Edward Jansen was born on 5 August 1949.  The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of South … and flautist, with a career…

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Unknown-1929

Hermanus Lethebe

… Towards the end of 1929, the Minister of Justice, Oswald Pirow, announced a new bill, an amendment to the Riotous Assemblies Act, which would give him the…

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. … as an Anglican minister, he later became…

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1920

Kwena Matlala

… Kwena Matlala, born in 1920, was the first daughter of Chief Sekgwari Matlala and Mme Makwena Matlala . She married Nelson Ngakana Moabelo, the ntona of…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) became invovled in politics at the…

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

… was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two years later became the editor of its monthly magazine,He was…

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1820-1875

John Thomas Baines

… in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William Carr. Baines left England for South … as a marine and portrait painter. Baines based…

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1939

Manfred Zylla

… to confront reality. I use art as a tool to get to know the world in which I live. And I use art as a tool to experience my own reality within the world in…

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1875-1927

James E. Kwegyir Aggrey

… chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover in the formation of the Johannesburg…

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1916-1981

Mary Susan Malahlela-Xakana

… (then Pietersburg). Her father had been ostracized by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to have his twin children put to death, as the…

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1943-2005

Ronnie Levitan

… born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in the design…

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1891

Captain Lancelot Andrew Ariba

… distinction and late studied architecture in Leeds and at the RA Schools 11 London. His ideals were based on the notion of a symbiotic relationship between…

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … where he was held in terms of section…

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1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster … an attorney and practised…

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1930

Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

… Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of…

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