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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…

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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

1879-1959

Marion Gill

… She lived in SA from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, where she experimented ……

B-0008099

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

2012

Fezile David Saphendu

… Fezile David Saphendu (24) was from Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009, when … was killed at scene 2 after being shot in his…

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1909-1944

Samuel Makoanyane

… Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His early clay animals and figures…

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1948

George Msimang

… School in 1968 after completing Standard VIII. He came to the African Art Centre in Durban and was encouraged by Jo … for a year, beginning in 1969. In 1971…

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1910-1977

Max Gordon

… early death.In 1932 he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cape Town ,where he fell in with swtudent … soon moved to Johannesburg where he worked…

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1930

Stella Madge Damos

… Born in 1930, Damos was a trade unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she … a protest meeting and was charged with…

B-0007972

1927

Joseph Morolong

… Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade…

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1909-1994

Oscar Mpetha

… Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, … orderly, road worker, and later as a factory worker…

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1943-1967

Denise Darvall

… achieved renown when on 3 December 1967, she became the donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant, … assistance, and was essentially brain…

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1894-1982

Madie Hall-Xuma

… figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) from … Carolina, and met Xuma, then a widower, on his…

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1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA … to Selina Sekhuthe in 1953, he went on…

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1871-1936

Eugene Marais

… Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the newspaper, Land en…

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1948-1996

Vuminkosi Zulu

… born on 24 November 1948 in Mapumulo, KwaZulu-Natal. From the age of thirteen Zulu attended school in Kranskop for six … to 1972 he attended Rorke's Drift…

B-0009213

1945

Marlise Joubert

… in Librarianship and a BA Honours in Philosophy from the University of Pretoria. After her studies, she worked as … her husband, Louis Esterhuizen an…

B-0098663

1919

Isaac Zakes Nkosi

… music group.  Zakes Nkosi and Elijah Nkwanyane formed the cornerstone of the mbaqanga style of music. He played with the legendary Jazz Maniacs, formed by…

B-0065254

1972

Leoni Marinovich

… co- produced one 24 minute documentary, Village of the Spirits, for SABC2 (2001), a 52 minute film on the Eritreain liberation struggle (yet to be broadcast,…

B-0008448

1948

Gordon Mbatha

… He trained as a potter in the Ceramic Workshop at the ELC Art and Craft Centre, together with Ephraim Ziqubu, … each retained individuality of form. Mbatha…

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Conan Doyle Modiakgotla

… Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…

B-0067965

2012

Ntandazo Nokhamba

… Ntandazo Nokhamba (36) was from Lebode in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2006. On … 2012 he was killed at scene two after being shot…

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1896-1966

Bertram Dumbleton

… was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic Julian in Paris. During his periods in…

B-0008026

1936

Lionel Davis

… he received a school leaver’s Senior Certificate. At the Evangelical Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift in 1980 … in art led him to complete a BA Fine Art…

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Rosalie van der Gucht

… moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career … was offered a position as assistant in…

B-0009198

1958-1985

Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng

… Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the  African National Congress (ANC) activist and trade unionist  John Nkadimeng .    Nkadimeng skipped the country…

B-0068263

1929

Selby Themba Ngendane

… Selby Themba Ngendane was born about 1929 in the Eastern Cape and attended Fort Hare, where he was active in the African National Congress Youth League…

B-0068242

1969

Ernest “Ernie” Theodore Els

… Els or “ Big Easy ” as he is affectionately known in the sporting circles was born on 17 October 1969, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the second born…

B-0008045

1960

Steve Dyer

… in Pietermaritzburg in 1960. He taught himself to play the guitar at the age of eleven. He studied music at the University of Natal where he obtained a…

B-0008037

1964

Petrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers

… Fanie de Villiers was born on the 13th October 1964 in Vereeniging. In 1985 he started playing for the Northern Transvaal cricket team and in the 1992/93…

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