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1934

Abdullah Ibrahim

South African musician, Abdullah Ibrahim was born on the 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa. Born Adolph Johannes Brand, he converted to Islam in 1968…

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Myron Peter

Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…

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1844-1934

Francis William Reitz

Francis William Reitz was born in Swellendam in 1844. He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. He became…

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2012

Anele Mdizeni

Anele Mdizeni (29) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2005. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after being shot…

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1929

Günther Komnick

Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…

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1935-2013

Sipo Elijah Mzimela

Sipo Elijah Mzimela was born on 19 June 1935, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria Mzimela. The entire family was raised as Anglicans and…

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1853-1907

William Luscombe Searelle

William Luscombe Searelle was born Isaac Israel and later adopted a professional name formed from Luscombe (in South Australia) and an imperfect anagram of …

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1938

Noria Mabasa

Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year, having to walk three…

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1936-2010

Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi was born in Chesterville, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at local schools before enrolling at M. L. Sultan Technical College in Durban. …

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1953

Jeannette Ndhlovu

Jeannette Ndhlovu was born on 2nd October 1953 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Ndhlovu obtained her primary and secondary education in South…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

Jo Thorpe was born in 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town. She grew up in Mooi River and completed her high school education at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School…

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1945

Marlise Joubert

Marlise Joubert was born in Elim (near Levubu), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). She grew up in Warmbaths (Bela Bela) and has degrees in…

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1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

Andrew Michael Boraine was born in Pietermaritzburg on 18 February 1959.He is the eldest of four children of Alex and Jenny Boraine.His father was the…

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J. Congress M. Mbata

J. Congress M. Mbata was born in Johannesburg in 1919 and studied at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In…

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1912-1969

Nell Kaye

Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…

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1936

Moritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein

Manu Herbstein was born in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From 1959…

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1907-1988

Sushila Gandhi

Sushila Mashruwallah was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land…

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

Born in Natal in 1931, he studied at Adams College and Ohlange Institute, where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a Durban textile plant,…

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1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…

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2012

Ntandazo Nokhamba

Ntandazo Nokhamba (36) was from Lebode in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2006. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene two after being…

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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).  He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand…

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD…

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1882-1966

Constance Greaves

Constance  Helen Greaves was born in Brighton, Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This…

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1888-1948

James M. Thaele

James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied at…

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1945

Bhekisani Manyoni

Bhekisani Manyoni was born on 6 September 1945 in Greytown, Natal. After Manyoni completed three years of study at Rorke\'s Drift in 1963 he was employed at…

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1948-2014

Jan Willem Jordaan

  Jordaan was born in Springs, Gauteng. He is a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, obtaining a BA (FA). He taught…

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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 spent some time making Afrikaans records and…

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1829-1871

Tiyo Soga

Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South…

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. Maathai is internationally renowned for her unrelenting efforts in…

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