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… father Gana Makabeni  was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced financial … finance her part-time studies at secondary school and at the University of Fort-Hare. At university she became a student activist in the South African Student Organisation (SASO) and Black …

… in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the internationally renowned South African vocal group, … bass vocals. Joseph Shabalala, who claimed that he heard the vocal harmonies the group became famous for in a dream, …

… Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she visited Cape Town and its …

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. In 1958 Jassat was arrested with twenty-eight …

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … for higher education. He studied law and was called to the Side Bar, and returned to South Africa a Barrister-at-law …

… Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CP) in the late 1920s …

… on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited means. He studied at the School of Optic and Photechnic in Berlin and worked as an apprentice for the German Press Agency for two years. In 1950, at the age of …

… playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined Orlando Pirates. He entered the international scene when he was recruited by North … immediately started proceedings to form his own team, to the disapproval of many in the football world. Amidst stern …

… Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective who had been gain access into the African National Congress (ANC) at the time of the 1918 "bucket strike", but had calmy …

… Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he was approached by the renowned news wire …

… was born in Pretoria in 1961. From 1985-1989 he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a … a specialization in sculpture. In 1992, he established the sculpture department at Stellenbosch University. He has …

… on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth . The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at his home and went on to play with the Broadway yanks and later the Four Yanks. In a turn of … Breakly, B & Gordon, S, (1997), Beyond the Blues: Township Jazz in the '60s and '70s , (David …

… Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Not having much money, he found …

… Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments of King Shaka. The family later moved on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) …

… diploma. He taught at Mthethomusha High before joining the Department of Education in Pietermaritzburg. Mkhize was a member of the  African National Congress  (ANC) but when the ANC was banned in 1960, he joined the Liberal Party in …

… was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College, … studies at Witwatersrand University (Wits). He joined the South African Air Force at the outbreak of World War II and served in North Africa and …

… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona earned her secondary … Master’s Degree in Social Work at Columbia University in the United States of America. Magona is one of many …

… at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1940 he joined the faculty of St. Peter's and subsequently became secretary …

… Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA Balkema. But the one who was to transform that industry single-handedly … years later he opened a bookshop in Amsterdam, the famed "Huis aen de drie grachten" next door to the old …

… Diane Case was born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in Wynberg where Diane … High School. A quiet and sensitive child who felt the pain of others very deeply, Diane found a channel for …

… in his work, mostly employing either tempera or acrylic. The artist often claimed that he limited his palette to black … Page moved from one job to another, and spent some time in the military. He first arrived in Port Elizabeth, the city with which his art is now synonymous, to work in a …

… Jodi Bieber has lived in Johannesburg for the past 35 years. She studied photography at the Market Theatre photographic workshop, a non-profit … career began in September 1993 as a darkroom assistant at the Star Newspaper under the guidance of the late Ken …

… born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. … using a widening range of paint colours that emerged in the 1940s. She married and had three sons, but lost her …

… his brother Harry to Cape Town in 1873 to seek fortune in the diamond rush that followed the 1866 discovery of diamond in Kimberly. He came to South … penniless, but within 10 years he was a millionaire and the Barnato Diamond Mining Company that he helped set up was …

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the …

… Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started … his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady Selbourne, and later joined the staff of the Pretoria General Hospital. He joined the African National … Of National Orders , Matsobane Morris Matsemela , from The Presidency, [online] Available at …

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended the party …

… Max Yergan was born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and … to 1936 he lived in South Africa as a representative of the Young Men's Christian Association, based at Alice in the Cape. A Communist by conviction at this time, he …

… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at … he offered his services to Bishop Gray and was appointed the first archdeacon of Grahamstown, with the task of …

… 1957. She schooled at St Mary's Dominican Convent and the University of Cape Town. In 1983 and 1984 she attended part-time courses in photography at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town. In 1985, … photo agency that played a key role in documenting the resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. During this period …