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Jonathan Ngwenya

… Kwame Nkrumah Military Base. In 1978, he was deployed to the APLA headquarters in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Between … Platoon and Company Commander…

B-0008784

1975

Tikkie Sibisi

… with a single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his mother died during the ritual of Sangoma training) His father was a welder at ……

B-0009049

1945

Pieter Dirk-Uys

… drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape…

B-0095153

1919

Joseph Albert Mokoena

… thereafter received, between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University…

B-0067980

1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… there, he came to Cape Town in 1901. He served on the British side in the Anglo-Boer War by doing duty at the Cape Town Castle, and then turned to painting…

B-0008356

1885

Nehemiah Tile

… Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal education at Boloto. He ……

B-0068562

1910

Stephen Tefu

… Stephen Tefu was born about 1910, he was recruited to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in  Pretoria  at a time when the party was at a low ebb…

B-0068545

1929

Peter Papela Nthite

… Born 1929, the son of a labourer, he grew up in Sophiatown, … support his family, working as a truck driver. Joining the  African National Congress  during…

B-0008819

2012

Motisaoitsile Van Wyk Sagalala

… Van Wyk Sagalala (60) was from Bophirima Setlagole in the Retlong Municipal District of the North West. On 16 August 2012 Mr Sagalala was killed at scene 2…

B-0121609

2012

Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa

… Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On … 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after…

B-0121610

1920

Hymie Barsel

… Born in 1920 Barsel worked as a clerk. During the 30s he was assaulted when taking part in demonstrations against the Blackshirt Movement. He was secretary…

B-0007831

1880

Ethel Edwards

… On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel … posed at her easel determinedly painting en plein air. The caption states…

B-0008042

1976

Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane

… Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th … Airport,Johannesburg.He was held under section 6(1)…

B-0074845

Jansie Lourens

… After Barbara Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , were…

B-0008336

1864-1977

Oscar Hollander

… George Crosland Robinson and studied for a time under the latter. It is from this phase of his work that the example exhibited here dates. Hollander later…

B-0008171

1922-2003

Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker

… Pinetown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Attorney prominent in the South African Indian Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of G M Naicker …

B-0068193

1847-1929

Millicent Fawcett

… Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain during the  Anglo Boer War  in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration…

B-0067466

1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… to Kibel as a child. He studied briefly in Poland under the guidance of Appelbaum, a painter visiting from London. He … as a painter. At age of 20 he fled to…

B-0008258

1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop…

B-0008118

2012

Thabiso Johannes Thelejane

… Johannes Thelejane (55) was from Pabellong, Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in October … Mr Thelejane was killed at scene 2. He…

B-0121613

1945

Milner Langa Kabane

… Milner Langa Kabane was born in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown.  He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare,…

B-0008222

1886-1977

Mary Agard Pocock

… Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 … to women, so she obtained her Honours degree in 1921…

B-0008899

2012

Thabiso Mosebetsane

… Thabiso Mosebetsane (49) was from Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He started working at Lonmin in 2008 and … was killed at scene 2 after being shot twice in…

B-0121617

1908-1993

Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial

… of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught. The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in 1938, and she explored Voortrekker … expressing any…

B-0008065

1911-1991

Dorothy Joan Wright

… Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth Technical…

B-0009238

1890-1983

Magdalena Gertruide Sauer

… Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South … a colleague, was responsible for…

B-0008988

1961-1988

Johannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape

… He joined  South African Students’ Organisation  and the local African National Congress Youth League branch. … involved in his community and was elected in…

B-0007871

1880

Daniel William

… William Alexander was born in 1880 in  Port Elizabeth , the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. … as an Anglican minister, he later became…

B-0007780

1886-1964

Dorothy Moss Kay

… County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 … also joined SASA in early 1919,…

B-0008235