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1958

Rooha Variava

… Rooha Variava was born in Pietersburg, South Africa on the 16 December 1958. She completed a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South…

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… born on 1st June in 1926 in East London. Skotnes served in the South African Forces in Italy. Before returning to South … Heinrich Steiner in Florence…

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one of the…

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1870-1943

Sir Patrick Duncan

… College, Oxford, where he gained several distinctions. At the age of 23 he entered the Revenue Department at Somerset House, London, and was … who brought…

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1966

James Hamakwayo

… The early records that were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 under the 180-day…

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1898-1914

Valliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar

… The participation of women passive resisters was a key element of the Satyagraha Campaign of 1913 - 1914. Angered by the Supreme Court judgement in March…

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2012

Makhosandile Mkhonjwa

… Makhosandile Mkhonjwa (28) was from Bizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On … August 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after…

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2012

Pumzile Sokanyile

… Sokanyile (48) was from Mdumazulu Location, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2001. On … 13 August 2012 Mr Sokanyile was killed…

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1955-2016

Emile Maurice

… of Art, University of Cape Town in 1977 and then went to the USA where he obtained his MA graduate degree in art … 1981. In 1995 Maurice was appointed Head…

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1933-1987

Eric Ngcobo

… School, before becoming an Inspector of Education for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Culture in … on a mixture of tribal mythology and urban…

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1912-1957

Gladstone Xala Tshume

… Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in … he was…

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1941-1997

Welcome Mandla Koboka

… he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly Street Art Centre . He worked in charcoal, inks, … and oils, becoming most recognised for…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… to make traditional pots at home, before she went to the ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift. Like Elizabeth Mbatha (q.v.) she trained as a potter in the…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… Rorke’s Drift than most artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of the second intake of artists who commenced classes in…

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1954

Vincent Oliphant

… to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale Methodist Primary School, and his secondary education in Uitenhage and the Hoërskool …

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1958

Paul Konings

… in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town. While in Cape Town , he worked ……

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… 1976. After completing a B.A. (Hon) degree in Drama from the then University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), he began … community and in mainstream theatres…

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1818-1953

Emily Isabel Fern

… lived in Port Elizabeth where she had art tuition at the Technical College. Returning to Johannesburg, she was … then taught pastel drawing by George…

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1831-1900

Piet Joubert

… Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against the British. He led the…

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1900-1975

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

… Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot …

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Logan K. Ntlabati

… Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…

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1963

Lennox Madikane

… Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now …

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1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… Andre Hanekom was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool … his brother into anti-apartheid…

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1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… where they died from Asian flu leaving him orphaned at the age of two. He was then taken care of by friends and … that he was their adopted son and he was…

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2012

Mongezeleli Ntenetya

… Mongezeleli Ntenetya (34) was from Dutywa in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2000 … was killed at scene 1 after being shot 6 times by…

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Gail Johnson

… Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson , who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 Gail Johnson,…

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1909

Godfrey I. M. Mzamane

…   Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from … Peter's Secondary School in Johannesburg and…

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1853-1907

William Luscombe Searelle

… a child he was taken to New Zealand and ran away to sea at the age of thirteen.  Searelle became associated with the theatre in Australia in 1881 and went to…

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1869-1948

Franklin Kaye Kendall

… Here he allied himself with local cultural groups, joining the Owl Club and the SADC. In 1902 he joined the reconstituted SASA, and was later its President…

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1870-1955

Allerley Glossop

… in Twickenham, England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She farmed … journalists as "an…

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