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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be…

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… was also born.  He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the Western Province. Marks attended the local school where he completed Standard Five,moved to ……

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1905-1962

Goolam H. Gool

… born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to … Yusuf started out as a hawker…

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… Nomkhosi  Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions … African National Congress (ANC) member to be…

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1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster … Advocate, Constitutional…

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Percival Mdala

… Percival Mdala grew up near King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape. He came to the Garden Route in 1956, where he found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton…

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1955

Michael Davis

… Davis served his compulsory one-year call-up in the South African Air Force as a medical orderly. Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… in 1978 for a Lower Secondary Teachers’ Diploma at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). As she had grown up under the … An active trade unionist and…

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1938-1990

Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana

… on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth . The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at his home and went on to play with the Broadway yanks…

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1874-1959

Daniel Francois Malan

… D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a ……

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… exploitation as a child influenced her to take part in the struggle. Primary and High School teachers also instilled a desire to resist and fight the inhuman…

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1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor. Wolpe was educated at the University of the…

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1966

Andreas Vlachakis

… is a professional photojournalist who has been involved in the local newspaper and magazine industry since 1995. His … and internationally. He is currently a…

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1934-2011

Abdool Kader Hassim

… born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling around 1941/1942 in…

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… to English missionary parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time he was approached by a friend who asked…

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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 solo exhibitionin 1969. This … on wood,…

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1916

Job Patja Kekana

… on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. … as a herd boy. His pieces included…

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1966

Pule Pheto

… Pule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where…

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1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a … In 1888 she returned to South Africa and began work…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until grade 11 when he…

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1857-1941

Baden Powell

… was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His father ……

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight … Ann Frazer, with whom he…

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1962

Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela

… and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the University of Swaziland in 1987 and three years later, an … School, and taught from…

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1962

Guy Tillim

… born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of … - 88) and Agence…

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1942

Feziwe Bookholane

… in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a … where she served as a…

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1907-1978

Hester Elizabeth Cornelius

… with both her father and grandfather fighting in the Anglo Boer War . In addition her mother was held in a concentration camp during the war and her father…

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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 … Prepared by Christopher…

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1942-2020

George Hallett

… His early inspiration to become a photographer came from the movies he saw at the Friday night film show at the primary school in the fishing village of Hout…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of … with poets like Oswald Mtshali and Wally Mongane Serote, the…

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