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1957

Pansy Tlakula

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate degree in law at the Turfloop University …

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just…

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1923-1966

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

… Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief.  He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955-1956 Evaton bus…

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1918

Charles Makhohliso

… for organising better conditions for brick workers.    The Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the  African National Congress (ANC) ,…

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1976

Fenuel Mogatusi

… in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed but he was reportedly arrested on charges of theft…

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1939

Allina Ndebele

… was born on 10 December 1939 in Ekuhlengeni mission, on the Swart Mfolozi near Vryheid, Natal. Ndebele attended school in the Swart Mfolozi area where she…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School and later continued his studies through the Intec Correspondence…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… Letty began her first work in the art field in 1925 when she began work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary laboratory. Here she had to record in detail the post…

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1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

… Anchor Orlando North High School.  After studying drama at the Natal Technikon he went into film production and worked … mostly on music videos and drama…

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1960-2015

Ohm Collins Chabane

… Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of 17 he joined the ANC underground. Chabane was also a member of the  Azanian Student…

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James J. Majoro

… and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial…

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1945

Joel Sibisi

… Rorke's Drift. After leaving school he worked on farms in the Dundee area. In 1970-71 he attended the ELC Centre where he trained in the Ceramic Workshop. He…

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1952

Saint Mokoena

… at Thunzi Primary School where he started drawing, and at the Matsobana High School were he received art classes until … 8. From 1978 he worked for an Iron…

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1962

Chris Kirchhoff

… spent many happy hours taking photographs and working in the base darkroom. He has spent the last ten years in private practice as a land surveyor and…

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1939

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe

… many of his pieces. Konqobe began creating works of art in the early 1970s, encouraged by the sculptor Sydney Khumalo . Konqobe credited Khumalo with being…

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1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… in 1917, and drew and painted since childhood. In 1919 the Battiss family settled in Fauresmith where he completed … matriculating in 1923. In 1924 he became…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four children. Orphaned at twelve years, he … office, while studying architecture…

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

… A chairman of the Orlando  African National Congress  (ANC) during the 1952  Defiance Campaign  and elected to the ANC national executive committee in…

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1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee of the  African…

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1954

Themba Daniel Mbongwa

… He continued with his primary education at Mkhomazi on the Natal South Coast and then at Umzomuhle L.P. School, … where he was encouraged to make art objects…

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1964-2000

Julius Thamsanqa Kuboni

… he was a sculptor. According to Julius, his father had the most influence on his work as a sculptor. He attended the Lamontville High School until 1982 and…

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1940-1984

Gabriel Kee Kuboni

… He was born in Durban. From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Lourenco Marques High School, which changed its name … to Sibonenlo High School, and which is…

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1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was…

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1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and … in 1965,base in Durban.Five years later he…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was … and legal administration. He was a…

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1845-1909

Jan Hofmeyr

… A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a political moderate, he worked closely with Rhodes until the  Jameson Raid  that…

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1847-1911

Jacobus du Toit

… Du Toit, a prolific author, wrote the first Afrikaans history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of the Afrikaans language…

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1958

Rooha Variava

… Rooha Variava was born in Pietersburg, South Africa on the 16 December 1958. She completed a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South…

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