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Mabel Balfour

… anti-apartheid activist. Balfour was first involved with the unions representing food and canning workers. After many leaders from the South African Congress…

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1948

Berney Perez

… office machine technician while studying photography under the tutelage of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez continued … as a freelance photographer,…

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1935

Jeremiah W Dunjwa

… Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal …

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1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… camera.He grew up in poverty and spent his school years at the Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto; one of the hotbeds of the violently suppressed Soweto…

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1902-1972

Dezso Koenig

… South Africa from Hungary in 1931. After his training at the Hungarian Academy in Budapest he won a scholarship which … Israel and London, where he received…

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1931-2016

Lulu Dube

… Lulu Dube was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline … Her father, John, was instrumental in…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six months later. He composed his first music…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… Wolton about 1925 and together they became prime movers in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she left South Africa…

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1938

David Nthubu Koloane

… The use of artworks for public education by the National Roads Safety Organisation convinced Koloane of the role of art in communication. Together with Louis…

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1954

Tony Sithembiso Yengeni

… Beaufort college in Cape Town.  Yengeni was a member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) under the leadership of Steve Biko before joining the banned…

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1955

Zamokwake Samuel Gumede

… District. As a boy he modelled cattle in clay. He attended the Langkloof Higher Primary School from 1962 to 1969.  In 1981 he was introduced to Sister…

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1941

Ray Berman

… few years.  He painted in his spare time. In 1961, he won the award for ‘Most Promising Artist’ at the Artist of Fame & Promise Exhibition in Johannesburg…

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1871-1934

Theophilus Dymond Field

… was born in Tunbridge Wells, England c.1871. He trained at the Brighton School of Art and became proficient in watercolour, the most English of painting…

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1923-1989

Bonakele Milner Ntsangani

… Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin … group. He was an accomplished musician…

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1955

Caesarina Kona Makhoere

…  At a young age she was forcibly removed in terms of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her family. During the next several years, she…

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1866-1954

Elizabeth Drake

… a frequent exhibitor. In 1941 she held an exhibition at the Maskew Miller Gallery, opened by Dr J.R. Derbyshire, Archbishop of Cape Town. Press reports on…

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1927-2011

Elsie Nair

… working in Durban , Natal. She was about 15 years old at the time. Nair then got a job at a clothing factory, and … as a dressmaker to supplement her income…

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1904-1986

Jean van der Poel

… on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape Town (UCT) , and she completed her doctorate at the London School Of…

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Jean Powell

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the…

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1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate degree in law at the Turfloop University …

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just…

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1923-1966

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

… Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief.  He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955-1956 Evaton bus…

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1918

Charles Makhohliso

… for organising better conditions for brick workers.    The Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the  African National Congress (ANC) ,…

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1865-1940

Jan Celliers

… Jan Celliers was born on 12 January 1865 on the farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later … to Cape Town where he attended an English school…

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1976

Fenuel Mogatusi

… in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed but he was reportedly arrested on charges of theft…

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1939

Allina Ndebele

… was born on 10 December 1939 in Ekuhlengeni mission, on the Swart Mfolozi near Vryheid, Natal. Ndebele attended school in the Swart Mfolozi area where she…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School and later continued his studies through the Intec Correspondence…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… Letty began her first work in the art field in 1925 when she began work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary laboratory. Here she had to record in detail the post…

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1878-1914

Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie

… Jopie Fourie was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout and dispatch rider during the  South African War , and was wounded and captured in an…

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1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

… Anchor Orlando North High School.  After studying drama at the Natal Technikon he went into film production and worked … mostly on music videos and drama…

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