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… musician, Robert Edward Jansen was born on 5 August 1949.  The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of South … and flautist, with a career spanning three decades. In the early 1970s, Jansen shot to fame as an original member of the Pacific Express band and later toured the United State …

… Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the press was truly male dominated. At that time …

… parents. He had five siblings. After matriculating at the Pretoria Indian Boys’ High School at the end of 1950, he was accepted to do a BA at the University of Witwatersrand. On attaining his BA with …

… Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of the Working Committee, …

… (then Pietersburg). Her father had been ostracized by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to have his twin children put to death, as the birth of twins was believed to be a curse. Malahele-Xakana became the first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in …

… born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in the design of housing where they used photography to research …

… chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover in the formation of the Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Africans in …

… descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804). He came to SA with … him well. Primarily a water colourist, he was elected to the Liverpool Academy and the Liverpool Watercolour Society. He was also the first …

… and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the Johannesburg College of Art, after which she joined The Star newspaper in 1979, where she worked as a staff … photographic collective that documented social issues and the anti-apartheid struggle. Since the late1980s she has …

… Thembelakhe Mati (50) was from Ntabankhulu in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Mr Mati was killed after he was shot in the leg. Initially the state pathologist claimed that he was stabbed; however it …

… teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker  to positions of leadership in the  South African Indian Congress . In 1946 he served as …

… President of the  All African Convention  (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first … then later practised law at Lady Frere. He was involved in the AAC from 1936 and was instrumental in bringing the Cape …

… joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax by the colonial government. During the …

… to confront reality. I use art as a tool to get to know the world in which I live. And I use art as a tool to experience my own reality within the world in which I live.” Manfred Zylla, was born in … in South Africa in 1970. A series of woodcuts about the 1976 Soweto uprising, and the creation of large-scale …

… in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William Carr. Baines left England for South … as a marine and portrait painter. Baines based himself in the Eastern Cape between 1848 and 1853 and from there he undertook three journeys to the interior. His first journey was beyond the Orange River …

… Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. She established a …

… John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC national executive committee from 1949 to 1955 and …

… Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She worked at the Tumelong Anglican mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was marginal - letters to the press, membership of the non-racial Liberal Party (LPSA), …

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … where he was held in terms of section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act. Mr Malinga was detained in connection with …

… distinction and late studied architecture in Leeds and at the RA Schools 11 London. His ideals were based on the notion of a symbiotic relationship between the artist and the architect in solving the problems peculiar …

… Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster … an attorney and practised for five years as a partner at the law firm Maluleke, Seriti and Moseneke. In 1983, he began …

… Chatsworth, Durban — an area designated for Indians under the notorious Group Areas Act . He attended the local primary school and then attended Chatsworth High … worked on a documentary project on Chatsworth, the largest Indian township in South Africa. Rajgopaul was …

… in 1959.  Ganyile’s interest in politics was sparked by the African National Congress  (ANC) 1952 Defiance Campaign . In 1959,as a first year student at the UFH,he joined the off-campus African National Congress Youth League …

… this experience, as Andy Mason has noted, with elements of the satirical ‘that combines social realism with the surreal’. Another recent observation on his work locates it within the traditions of black art in KwaZulu-Natal, as an extension …

… was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who gave much … in a slight impairment of her hearing. In March 1927, at the age of 19, she married Gandhi’s son,  Manilal Gandh i , …

… Africa. He was 75. His death was reported on Saturday by the British newspaper The Guardian, which said he had emphysema. Over the years, Mr. Naidoo, who was widely known as M. D. Naidoo, …

… Sipho Philip Mutsi died in 1985 at the Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was arrested with connection to riots in the Odendaalrus area.The police stated that he had lost … Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state , Johannesburg: Human …

… something that was not common in coloured communities at the time. She attended St. Theresa, a catholic primary school … but that teacher was not allowed to have lunch with the other teachers in the staff room. To add to this, she and her family were …

… Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early education at the Roman Catholic Mission School of Esibomvwini at Centecow, in the Creighton region of Natal. From 1926 - 31 Bhengu produced … ethnographic and medical publications. In 1932 and 1933 the artist lived in Ixopo, Mariannhill where he was …

… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the  South African Coloured People's Organisation  (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the Cape in 1922. He finished 10 years of schooling and …