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1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… he was raised by his grandparents. He was a year old when the student riots broke out on 16 June 1976. Grootboom was a … from grade one to grade seven. His…

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Keable Mote

… Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in 1924 … the Orange Free…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… She was sent to Sweden to study on scholarship from the Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with dual British-South …

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1934-2013

Ian Berry

… Adams, vouched for him as an immigrant and taught him the technical basics of photography while employing him as an assistant. Berry … proceeded to work at a…

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1958-1985

Watson Mzwandile Majova

… Mzwandile  Majova,  Paulos Madiba,  Aaron Makwe,  members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we Sizwe …      were killed on 28 November…

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1875-1966

Walter Gilbert Wiles

… was born in Cambridge, England in 1875. Wiles was one of the five artist-sons of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Of all the five sons, he was the …

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Stanley Silwana

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the … From Protest to challenge: A…

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1980

Clive Zamani Xaba

… Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he…

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1932-2009

Aidan Walsh

… Aiden Walsh was born in Durban in 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956…

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 3 January 1892. After his father … job as tutor and escort to two Mexican boys…

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Jean Powell

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year …

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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 … Trade unionist,…

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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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1871-1936

Eugene Marais

… Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the …

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1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… was born in 1851 in Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, Booth was one of the earliest proponents of the…

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1948

Berney Perez

… office machine technician while studying photography under the tutelage of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez continued to work as a freelance photographer,…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… Mosa  Gwangwa  was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…

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1871-1934

Theophilus Dymond Field

… was born in Tunbridge Wells, England c.1871. He trained at the Brighton School of Art and became proficient in watercolour, the most English of painting…

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1908-1993

Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial

… 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught. The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in…

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1955

Thamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali

… is a painter, sculptor and a graphic artist who studied at the Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, 1981-1982.  He studied ceramics at the Natal Technikon, 1983-84. He…

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1909-1994

Oscar Mpetha

… Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, … orderly, road worker, and later as a factory worker…

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1916

Philemon Mathole

… in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later opened a…

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1908-1970

Paul Herman Robinson

… and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at the Natal Technical College. He did his apprenticeship in commercial art at the EP and Commercial…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She worked at the Tumelong Anglican mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria…

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1989-2001

Nkosi Johnson

… Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother in a township on the east rand. When his mother became too ill to take care of him, she gave him up for adoption. He…

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1945

Barry “Anderson” Richards

… at his early teens and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior team in the early sixties. In 1967 he took a contract with an English … blossoming career…

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1901

John Stephen Gomas

… Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced mother,he completed most of his school before …

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1900-1975

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal … Author, educator…

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