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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a … to study further, and it was there…

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1892-1956

Manilal Gandhi

… Gandhi was born  on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and  Mohandas Gandhi . He had three brothers, … training centres and Manilal…

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Pauline Podbrey

… She arrived with her family in  Durban  in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to South Africa a few … socialists, including  Eddie Roux …

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Vusi Mahlasela

… their home. He grew up listening to people singing at the shebeen which fuelled his love for music. Mahlasela made … high school. He started off by playing…

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1931-1964

Suliman “Babla” Saloojee

… Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was …

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1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… a reference to his slight physique since many beverages at the time were sold in a “¼ pint”. During the 1950s, Quarter was a member of the Transvaal Indian…

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1956

Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa

… at Inanda Seminary. She then found employment in the personnel department at the Tongaat Sugar Company, where she stayed for 2 years. From … Grassroots…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended Grey High School, … school where first displayed his…

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1948

Johannes Maswanganyi

… near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … such as utensils and headrests. His work…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…

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1938-1999

Ezrom Legae

… and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under … Ezrom…

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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… to South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her parents who were English immigrants…

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Gaur Radebe

… Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National…

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1889-1981

Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize

… After his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. … http:…

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1931-2018

Samir Amin

… on capitalism, colonialism and (under)development was one of the most important contributions to the discussion over the Third Worlds place in the World …

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1937-2015

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

… meetings with his Father, Ebrahim Dinat, who was a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) .  In 1953,…

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1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

… mother resorted to running a shebeen in order to provide the family with livelihood means. Modisane wrote that: My mother accepted her life, and I suppose,…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was … 1966 from St Joseph's College, then…

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African … Natal Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League, lawyer,…

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1970

Heidi Saayman

… old age homes in Port Elizabeth called " Autumn Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the…

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… then went on to study for a Diploma in Commercial Art at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT, now Durban University of Technology) in 1962. She also did…

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1976

Dean Hutton

… mentorship and community organising. Dean was born on the 3 May 1976, to a poor family in Johannesburg, their experiences made them tend towards being an…

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1964

Ntela Richard Sikhosana

… Exiled person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist … he was forced into exile in…

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1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and…

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1926-2008

Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa

… in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary school at Lovedale … and met P. K. Leballo. In 1949 he was…

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1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

… Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA … From Protest to…

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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments…

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1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… diploma. He taught at Mthethomusha High before joining the Department of Education in Pietermaritzburg. Mkhize was a member of the  African National Congress…

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… producing plays using black and white actors and by the 1950’s, he had become a well known figure particularly in Johannesburg where he lived. Amongst his…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

… and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She returned to South Africa the…

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