SAHO global search

James J. Majoro

… and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial…

B-0008389

1945

Joel Sibisi

… Rorke's Drift. After leaving school he worked on farms in the Dundee area. In 1970-71 he attended the ELC Centre where he trained in the Ceramic Workshop. He…

B-0009045

John S. P. Motloheloa

… was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the…

B-0068114

1952

Saint Mokoena

… at Thunzi Primary School where he started drawing, and at the Matsobana High School were he received art classes until … 8. From 1978 he worked for an Iron…

B-0008614

1962

Chris Kirchhoff

… spent many happy hours taking photographs and working in the base darkroom. He has spent the last ten years in private practice as a land surveyor and…

B-0008261

1947-2010

Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo

… moved to Johannesburg, where she made a recording under the name Victoria Mhlongo. Her 1963 version of My Boy … and as a soloist with several jazz groups,…

B-0065035

1870-1956

Honorine Margaret Withers

… born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa … on remote farms announcing her…

B-0009235

1925-1968

Patrick Mosell Molaoa

… and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one of the first activists of the African National Congress (ANC) to die as a guerrilla fighter. He ran a gymnasium…

B-0008617

1939

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe

… many of his pieces. Konqobe began creating works of art in the early 1970s, encouraged by the sculptor Sydney Khumalo . Konqobe credited Khumalo with being…

B-0099633

1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… in 1917, and drew and painted since childhood. In 1919 the Battiss family settled in Fauresmith where he completed … matriculating in 1923. In 1924 he became…

B-0007836

1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four children. Orphaned at twelve years, he … office, while studying architecture…

B-0007843

Victor V. T. Mbobo

… Victor V. T. Mbobo was born in the Cape, he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of…

B-0008519

Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

… A chairman of the Orlando  African National Congress  (ANC) during the 1952  Defiance Campaign  and elected to the ANC national executive committee in…

B-0008464

1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee of the  African…

B-0068266

1954

Themba Daniel Mbongwa

… He continued with his primary education at Mkhomazi on the Natal South Coast and then at Umzomuhle L.P. School, … where he was encouraged to make art objects…

B-0008521

1964-2000

Julius Thamsanqa Kuboni

… he was a sculptor. According to Julius, his father had the most influence on his work as a sculptor. He attended the Lamontville High School until 1982 and…

B-0008283

1940-1984

Gabriel Kee Kuboni

… He was born in Durban. From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Lourenco Marques High School, which changed its name … to Sibonenlo High School, and which is…

B-0008282

1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he … in Leyden from 1766 to 1768…

B-0067298

James D. Ngojo

… James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case…

B-0068243

1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was…

B-0008332

1794-1879

Thomas Maclear

… He was a keen amateur astronomer and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of astronomers. Maclear arrived in South … 5 January 1834 to assume his duties as…

B-0008359

1912-1969

Nell Kaye

… a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze portrait bust. She trained in sculpture at Wits Technical College in the 1930s, but…

B-0008236

1932-2009

Aidan Walsh

… Aiden Walsh was born in Durban in 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956…

B-0009217

1853-1915

Heinrich Egersdorfer

… he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he had worked at his trade in England. In 1884 he founded The South…

B-0008043

1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and … in 1965,base in Durban.Five years later he…

B-0080398

1975

Nicholas Hlobo

… Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning to study art in order to work in…

B-0098966

1897-1974

Victor Poto

… at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was … and legal administration. He was a…

B-0008909

1909-1984

Joan Hoskyn Davies

… where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944 she transferred to the Transvaal Archives Depot. In 1957 she…

B-0007974

1845-1909

Jan Hofmeyr

… A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a political moderate, he worked closely with Rhodes until the  Jameson Raid  that…

B-0008168

1847-1911

Jacobus du Toit

… Du Toit, a prolific author, wrote the first Afrikaans history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of the Afrikaans language…

B-0008033