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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

… Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. After studying …

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du … During his studies du Plessis played an…

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1928-1993

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli

… on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick making … high school in Kroonstad ,then moved to…

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1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the petrol company, in the same…

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1900-1984

Princess Magogo

… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King,  Dinuzulu  kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen … composed Zulu classical music and was…

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

… in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing…

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1870-1938

Leo Rbc Francois

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the various art societies in SA into a single…

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1969-2019

Philemon Masinga

… (North-West Province). At primary school level he showed the skills of a good soccer player.  Masinga attended … Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented…

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1964

Joseph Manana

… KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an award from the Tito Zungu…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his … instrument was a flute that he made from a…

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1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… and three sisters. Along with her siblings, she attended the Tamil school Sathia Gnama Sabbai before attending  English school . At the young age of 11, she…

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1933-1986

Fabian Defu Ribeiro

… Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee … in 1975. He completed his…

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1937-2004

Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe

… Standard VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr Maseko, one f the first black handicrafts teachers in South Africa. … program at Botshabelo Training Institute…

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1927

Sydney Brenner

… senior to allow Sydney to go to kindergarten at age 5. The young boy completed the first 3 years of his primary education in 1 year and … and soon became…

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1952-2004

Sipho Gumede

… his guitar talent on a borrowed instrument instead of the homemade version. At the age of 16 he met the jazz guitarist Cyril Magubane. For Sipho, this was…

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1924-1968

Canodoise (Can) Themba

… Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare, where he acquired a teaching … other aspiring black journalists, who came to…

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1983

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

… High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg , where he … Master’s degree with distinction in…

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1932-2012

Sister Bernard Ncube

… she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered the Companions Catholic Order, thereafter teaching until 1960. During the 1970s and the 1980s,…

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1958-2004

Khotso Seatlholo

… He was a student at Naledi High School in Soweto when the 1976 Student riots ensued. Seatlholo, together with Tsietsi Mashinini , was part of the Soweto…

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in Germiston and Wolmaransstad. He was active in the African National…

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1880

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

… Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary ……

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Trineke Weijdema

… Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola . The whole of…

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1921-1980

President Seretse Khama

… His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of the Bangwato people. Under his rule and with his approval, … Seretse Khama…

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… Africa in 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of English immigrants. Neither of Paton’s … Scott, Charles Dickens and Rupert Brooke, as…

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Michael Mike Matsobane

… The Matsobane brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their efforts fell under the …

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1957

Michael Madimetja Teffo

… Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne . The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his ……

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1970

Leleti Khumalo

… Khumalo was born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township , the North of Durban . Growing up a poverty-ridden township, … when she appeared in Sarafina , a…

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… Province). He showed an interest in art as a child, and by the age of 17 he was working as an artist, predominately in … watercolour. In 1970, he brought…

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1949

Norman Catherine

… East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first … on wood, bone, wire and an assortment…

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1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court … his family was evicted from their home in…

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