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2012

Mafolisi Mabiya

… Mafolisi Mabiya (28) was from Dutywa in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2007. On … 2012 Mafolisi was killed at scene 2 after being shot in…

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1922-1978

Shulamith Muller

… was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948. She joined the South African…

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1917-1958

Christopher W. M. Gell

… Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge University ……

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1965

Tracy Payne

… hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She … in Cape Town , South Africa. In…

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1962

Lucky Shabalala

… an early age he started carving heads.  Shabalala attended the Community Arts Workshop in the 1980s in Durban. He has obtained a number of commissions from…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

… likely saw no need to exhibit since his work appeared in the Press on a regular basis. He joined Die Burger in Cape … from 1915 to 1940. Boonzaier played a…

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2012

Khanare Elais Monesa

… (36) was from Maseru in Lesotho. He started working in the mines in 1999. After working at two previous mines, he … 2012, Khanare was killed at scene 1 after…

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1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… was born in 1851 in Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, Booth was one of the earliest proponents of the…

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1945-1988

Stanley Bongani Nkosi

… years old his family moved to Dukhatole tear Germiston in the Transvaal. He attended school in Gerpiston, Swaziland and … with Cecil Skotnes and became a…

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1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… came to SA in 1889 to help a widowed sister stranded on the Kimberley diggings. He never returned to England. … in 1888. Between 1877 and 1888 he showed…

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1940

Ebrahim Ismail Asvat

… Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and … by informing his creditors of his…

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1956

Willie Bester

… sustained preoccupation with apartheid’s legacy, and the empathy and dignity with which he represents the dispossessed. Curriculum Vitae Training 1986:…

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Yazeed Kamaldien

… Peninsula Technikon, which he completed in 2001. Part of the course was a section on photojournalism. Extra lessons in photography included a short course in…

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1959

Connie September

… Cornelia “Connie” September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would send her for holidays. September…

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1935-2007

Gaus Shikomba

… OPO in 1959 and subsequently Swapo in 1960. He joined the South West Africa Liberation Army (Swala) in 1966 and received military training at…

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1914

Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar

… Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of  Gandhi ’s  Satyagraha  in 1913. On 29 … joined other women who went on a march…

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Anneke Laurie

… father was a missionary doctor. Shortly after her birth, the family was forced to leave the country because of the civil war. Since then her family has moved…

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Cecil Sols

… with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities of apartheid and to empower young black…

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1972

Mujahid Safodien

… Mujahid was born on 17 of March 1972. He matriculated at the Alexandra Senior Secondary School and went on to do a Graphic design and Fine Art Photography…

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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… to 1935 ”” at Collies School in Tugela near Pomeroy in the Msinga area. He did not receive any formal art training. … commissioned him to produce a carved…

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1943-1987

John Ndevasia Muafangejo

… Africa/Namibia. He started receiving formal education at the mission 'bush school' mere. In 1963 he moved to the Onamunama Holy Cross mission school where he…

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Peter Engblom

… He is a descendant of the original Scandinavian Missionaries who evangelised … after matriculating in Zululand, he studied photography at the Bavarian State…

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1859-1942

Lord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne

… Lord William Palmer, the second Earl of Selborne was born in 1859. He studied history at the University of Oxford. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies…

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1945-2008

Phumzile John Gomomo

… 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and Nonga Stofile (Mpondo). He … a number of factory jobs in Uitenhage,…

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1956-2009

Lucas Seage

… studied under   Sydney Kumalo . In 1977 he studied at the Open School under Nats Mokgosi and from 1978 to 1980 … under Bill Ainslie, Ricky Burnett and Jenny…

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1924

Ahmed Ebrahim Patel

… Born 1924. Agent. Key organiser since 1939 of the  Transvaal Indian Congress  on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous hearings of the…

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1918-1979

Suliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie

… was a businessman in Evaton and played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for participation in the 1946…

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2012

Henry Mvuyisi Pato

… Henry Mvuyisi Pato (35) was from Mbizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2011. On 16 … 2012 Mvuyisi was killed at scene 2 after being…

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1915

Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia

… Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…

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