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… He joined  South African Students’ Organisation  and the local African National Congress Youth League branch. … involved in his community and was elected in 1987 as the first General Secretary of the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) in …

… 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 and 1972, through the support of the NSA and the Italian Consulate in Durban, he attended the …

… 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 to revive the faltering African Laundry Worker's Union.In May 1940,before the Soviet Union entered World War Two against Germany,Gordon …

… 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 were made with the aid of book illustrations. He later began modelling from … Sack, S. (1988). The Neglected Tradition , Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art …

… 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 … craftwork. She discovered her true medium when she went to the Edinburgh School of Art, where she mastered the technique …

… 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, and sent five paintings to the SASA Annual Exhibition. One of them was Marjorie aged … In 1922, Kay sent a further work to Cape Town for the SASA list Annual Exhibition. This time, she entered a …

… 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 visit to the United States in 1937-1938. She was at that time … active in women's organisations and as a fundraiser for the African National Congress (ANC) . She was a founder of …

… 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 dead. At 9 pm on the day of the accident, the resuscitation team stopped …

… 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 Volk and became controversial in …

… 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. In the late 1940s he helped to organise the African Food and Canning Workers' Union and in 1951 …

… 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 once in the back by the police. He was the breadwinner in his family and left …

… 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 of the Orange Free State African National Congress (ANC) and was …

… 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 often chose the bowl form to decorate with figures and animals.  His work …

… 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 the popular …

… 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, … Corp.), was soundperson on a 3-week documentary shoot for the Mennonite Central Committee in Mozambique (2001), and …

… 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. In 1973 he was awarded the Hajee Sulman Ebrahim Memorial Trust award. He worked for a time with Mahlangu in the Transvaal before returning to Rorke's Drift again between …

… in Librarianship and a BA Honours in Philosophy from the University of Pretoria. After her studies, she worked as … her husband, Louis Esterhuizen an Afrikaans poet, started the popular collective Afrikaans poetry website,  Versindaba . The couple also has a son and a daughter. Joubert is the …

… 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 to do a PhD at the University of Cape Town, completed in 1961. Two years … he sought political asylum for himself and his family in the United States where he remained in exile for 30 years. …

… Mentz studied at the Conservatoire of Music at the University of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she … in 1937. After her return she did pioneering work in the cultural field. She was involved in various organisations …

… 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 child of Neels and Hettie Els. At school Els … love. In 1984 age 14, Els rose to prominence, when he won the Junior World Championship in the Boys category of 13-14 …

… 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 cricket season he started his career for the …

… 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 degree in …

… Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the  African National Congress (ANC) activist and trade unionist  John Nkadimeng .    Nkadimeng skipped the country immediately after the  1976 Student Uprisings  to join the ANC in exile. He …

… 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 during the 1952  Defiance Campaign . Moving to  Johannesburg  to …

… 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 speech training at the University of Cape Town (UCT), which she accepted. She … many performances. In 1946 she was promoted to head of the Speech and Drama Department at UCT, where she continued …

… Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the  All African Convention …

… 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 degree with the University of Cape Town in 1994. In 1978 and 1990 he worked as assistant organiser at the Community Arts Project (CAP) in Cape Town. Davis has …

… 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 England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown …

… Patrick Akhona Jijase (26) was from Ntabankulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in July 2012, one month before the massacre. On 16 August 2012 Patrick was killed at scene 1, after being shot in the head and forearm by the police. He left behind his …

… Semi Jokanisi (29) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Semi was killed after being shot twice by the police, once in the abdomen and once in the armpit. He supported his five …