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1921-1985

Florence Mophosho

… born in 1921 Alexander Township , Johannesburg . She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified … Department of Arts, Culture,…

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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola

… Jafta Kgalabi Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many … his parents at an early age and was raised by his sister. The…

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1929-1994

Ruth Gosschalk

… on 27 July 1929 in Muizenburg , Cape Town . She was one of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gosschalk’s mother was a member of…

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1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway … and Alice (nee…

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1952

Aleta Michaletos

… in Pretoria in 1952. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Pretoria in 1974. Since 1971 she has actively served on the boards of several…

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Harry Moyaga

… and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an artist. She kept … her influence still sustains him in his…

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg and while there she met members of the Communist Party. She…

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… Ntsanwisi was born on 11 July 1920 at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. ……

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a …

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi …

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1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In … A member of South African…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… His parents, born in South Africa, were flower sellers at the Durban Central Cemetery.  Eventually his parents and … Later his parents farmed in Cliffdale an…

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1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and …

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician. His parents, … were Jews who had immigrated to South…

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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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1913-1998

Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden

… apprenticeship in London. In South Africa, he worked for the Cape Timesand the Rand Daily Mail. In 1949, Lee-Warden started his own printing works at the…

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1953

Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

… Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953  Durban . She received most of her … in Botswana. She obtained a BA in History and English at the…

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1949-1985

Sicelo Mhlauli

… at Tembalabantu High School in Zwelitsha Township in the mid-70s. Mhlauli became friends with Matthew Goniwe with … While he was teaching at Tembalabantu,…

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Mme Makwena Matlala

… The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg … District, Transvaal (now…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… at a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He was the first of three sons born to Manabeng and Dibetle Johanna Mamogobo. The family lived on a farm owned by…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… Barnard; Barnard was his father's first name. Gelata used the name Cecil Barnard until he left South Africa in 1961. He legally changed his name to Hotep…

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1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… 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…

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1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his … He began as a clerk before becoming a…

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1929-2011

Margaret Nash

… (now kwaZulu-Natal ), where Nash later matriculated.  At the young age of 16 she enrolled at Rhodes University for a teaching degree … would later, in 1975,…

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1930-2017

Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba

… abandoned secondary school to help provide for his family. The 1956 Treason Trial sparked his interest in politics, which led him to join the Transvaal…

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1956

Kay Hassan

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a … Matsemela Manaka and his Creative Youth…

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac …   - |SAPA. (1996)…

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1943

Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi

… 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … soon realized that she…

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1972

Zanele Muholi

… Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, and the intersections in between. Her photographs are an attempt … in South Africa. “This is a time for a…

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