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1912-1969

Nell Kaye

… a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze portrait bust. She trained in sculpture at Wits Technical College in the 1930s, but…

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1890-1968

Eric Hendrik Louw

… Louw was a politician and a diplomat.  During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was…

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1895-1960

Sam P. Sesedi

… 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After teaching for many years, he went into business … as a butcher in Kimberley. An…

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

… was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two years later became the editor …

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1902-1978

Jan Bouws

… musician, composer, lecturer and author, was born in the Netherlands in Purmerend on 28 July 1902. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam…

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1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… to Kibel as a child. He studied briefly in Poland under the guidance of Appelbaum, a painter visiting from London. He became very … as a painter. At age of…

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1949

Linda Komape

… she began work in a factory in 1975. Here she joined the Metal and Allied Workers Union , and participated in a … she could not find another job. In 1977,…

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1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… Natal and was later trained in woodwork by Mr Magni at the Swedish Lutheran mission trade school. At the age of twenty-five while an instructor at the…

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1935-2013

Sipo Elijah Mzimela

… Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria Mzimela. The entire family was raised as Anglicans and as a child, he wanted to become a priest. He obtained a…

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1909-1944

Samuel Makoanyane

… was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South … Africa. He was 75. His death was…

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1870-1956

Honorine Margaret Withers

… born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa … Australian landscapes in…

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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… He first learned voice and guitar, before settling on the bass as his chosen instrument. As a self-taught musician, his first official group was the Uptown…

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James D. Ngojo

… James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case…

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1880

Daniel William

… William Alexander was born in 1880 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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1910

Pitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane

… Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the  African National Congress  in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish…

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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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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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1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he … for the Kampen town, and later…

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1910

Stephen Tefu

… Stephen Tefu was born about 1910, he was recruited to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in  Pretoria  at a time when the party was at a low ebb…

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1965

Tracy Payne

… Tracy Payne’s hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She … in Cape Town , South…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… to make traditional pots at home, before she went to the ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift. Like Elizabeth Mbatha (q.v.) she trained as a potter in the…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… Rorke’s Drift than most artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of the second intake of artists who …

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1879-1959

Marion Gill

… She lived in SA from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, where she experimented …

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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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1938

Dorothy Hazel Alexander

… Alexander was born on 7 August 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape , the third of six children [1] . One of her siblings was Neville … Scanlon, H…

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1902-1972

Dezso Koenig

… South Africa from Hungary in 1931. After his training at the Hungarian Academy in Budapest he won a scholarship which … Israel and London, where he received…

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1931-2016

Lulu Dube

… Lulu Dube was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline … Her father, John, was instrumental in…

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1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth – some give it as 1892, others as 1896. As a … Palestine. Therefore, he studied…

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1949-2009

Henry Eric Isaacs

… 21 in 1949,He grew up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His family was of diverse racial … school and worked as a cleck and lab assisted…

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