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1955

Caesarina Kona Makhoere

… worker.  At a young age she was forcibly removed in terms of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her family. During the next several years,…

B-0008402

1955

Adam Glasser

… Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later … family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of…

B-0122636

1954

Wendy Schwegmann

… Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She lived in Johannesburg and …

B-0008998

1870-1955

Allerley Glossop

… in Twickenham, England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She farmed …

B-0008101

1935

Jeremiah W Dunjwa

… Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal …

B-0008030

1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of  March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…

B-0007843

1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… where they died from Asian flu leaving him orphaned at the age of two. He was then taken care of by friends and family … that he was their adopted son and he…

B-0065030

1956

Christopher Nceba Faku

… Brighton, Port Elizabeth. Faku received his education at the Cowan High School and Lovedale College in Alice. He … from prison, Faku was elected as regional…

B-0008055

Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

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

B-0008464

1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of…

B-0009105

1943-2001

G. S. (Smart) Gumede

… was born and died at Ndwedwe, Natal. He attended school in the Ndwedwe district, excelling at craftwork. He went to … there he received a bursary to train as…

B-0008132

1959-2010

Mthuthuzeli Tom

… Mthuthuzeli Tom was born on 7 September 1959, in the village of Mpongo outside East London, and was one of eight children. … assembling plant in East London…

B-0009153

1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around several … school, he initially wanted to study law,…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh … He completed his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon at the end of 1995…

B-0008147

1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… Andre Hanekom was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool Jan van … his brother into anti…

B-0079038

1957-2011

Gisele Wulfsohn

… and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the Johannesburg College of Art, after which she joined The Star newspaper in 1979, where she worked as…

B-0009239

1976

Jacob Zungwane Mashabane

… On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at the Johannesburg Fort…

B-0074817

1954

Tony Sithembiso Yengeni

… Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town.  Yengeni was a member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) under the leadership of Steve Biko before joining the…

B-0068905

1777-1855

Sir. Richard Bourke

… impartial administrator. Bourke was subsequently sent to the Cape Colony from 1826-28 as an acting Governor. His main task was to re - work the civil and…

B-0007880

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…

B-0008614

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 Plessis … During his studies du Plessis…

B-0008031

1928-1993

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli

… Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick…

B-0080403

1930

Zachius Botlhoko Molete

… Zachius Botlhoko Molete was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His father was a teacher. … League politics…

B-0068070

1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … which he worked as salesman,a job…

B-0008919

1880

Ethel Edwards

… On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African … posed at her easel…

B-0008042

1906-1967

George John Golding

… George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher … in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then Cape Town…

B-0008107

1958

Paul Konings

… in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town. While in Cape Town , he worked ……

B-0093745

1918-1982

Bartholomew Hlapane

… Bartholomew  Moru Hlapane was  born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A … & T. Sechaba, Comrades…

B-0008160

1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… He was born into a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he ……

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