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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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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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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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Unknown

Bransby Ndobe

… and also to radicalise Coloured farm workers. A member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in its heyday and also of the  Communist Party of…

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1966

Zola Budd

… In 1984 she gained international recognition when, at the age of 17, she broke the women's 5000m world record. As this performance took … Zola Budd biography…

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1860-1926

Emily Hobhouse

… In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…

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1919

Isaac Zakes Nkosi

… music group.  Zakes Nkosi and Elijah Nkwanyane formed the cornerstone of the mbaqanga style of music. He played with the legendary …

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 ……

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1928-1994

Maritz Barrymore

… KwaZulu-Natal). He trained as a painter from 1950-1953 at the University of Rhodes, Eastern Cape, where he obtained a BA(FA). In 1954 he gained a Higher…

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1942

Letta Mbulu

… her teens, she toured South Africa and then England with the musical  King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced…

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1962

Chris Kirchhoff

… spent many happy hours taking photographs and working in the base darkroom. He has spent the last ten years in private practice as a land surveyor and ……

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Anna Tempo

… she returned to Cape Town . She continued her work with the young girls, and set up a house for them in Napier … with them as well, and convinced many not to…

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Tu Nokwe

… Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band … he would encourage his daughters to perform with him. All the…

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1956

Willie Bester

… mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic … sustained preoccupation with apartheid’s legacy,…

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Conan Doyle Modiakgotla

… Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…

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Jansie Lourens

… After Barbara Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , … ‘Soweto…

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1932

Harold Athol Fugard

… Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His … and his mother English…

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1911-1991

Dorothy Joan Wright

… Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth Technical…

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Gail Johnson

… Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson , who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 …

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1909

Godfrey I. M. Mzamane

…   Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from … Peter's Secondary School in Johannesburg and…

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1919

Joseph Albert Mokoena

… thereafter received, between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University…

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1966

Andrew Tshabangu

… South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the Alexandra…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

… was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of his participation in any of its exhibitions. He most … likely saw no need to exhibit since his work…

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1956

Ndabenhle William Zulu

… He was born at Nsengeni in the Vryheid district. He attended the Nsengeni Mission School. In 1968 he moved to Emondlo … the international exhibition…

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Ramnie Dinat

… Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo , worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)  since her …   Political activist,…

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1911-1986

Esther Susanna Mentz

… Mentz studied at the Conservatoire of Music at the University of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she … (Source: E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of…

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1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… there, he came to Cape Town in 1901. He served on the British side in the Anglo-Boer War by doing duty at the Cape Town Castle, and … (1844-1893), a former…

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1913-1967

Louis Washkansky

… Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to … Africa and Italy. His wife Ann, he met and married after the war. He was keen on soccer, swimming…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was installed as paramount chief of western…

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