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BiographyJean Marius Rogier
… Jean Marius Rogier …
BiographyRoger Meintjes
Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…
Celisa Rosier
Hymie Rosier
BiographyHymie Rosier
BiographyCelisa Rosier
BiographyVeli Rogers Ngwema
Frederick Logier (66), organist and music teacher who established the Logier music academy in Cape Town, dies. A composition by
Roger Henry Daller (Henry) Davies, SA sculptor, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
Roger Joyce Bushell was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to British parents. He lived in South Africa until he was 14, when his father sent him to…
List of exhibitors - South African Society of Artists
… Gordon Prowse, Ethel Ruth FRSA R Robinson, George Crosland Rogier, Jean Marius Ross, F.B. Roworth, Edward Arthur …
BiographyMakhaya Ntini
Makhaya Ntini was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's…
BiographyIan Berry
Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams,…
State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 edited by Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall & Jessica Lutchman
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…
BiographyBuyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community…
Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.
Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell)…
BiographyRajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were from Kimberley in the…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…
BiographyGuy Tillim
Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…
Afrapix members, associated members and contributors
Anna Zieminski (member) Biddy Partridge (founding member) Billy Paddock (member) Brett Eloff (contributor) Cecil Sols (member/associate) Cedric Nunn …
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
Ruth First, journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist Party, was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo,…
PlaceArderne Public Gardens, Main Road, Claremont
A park, in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont. Named after Roger Arderne, a British immigrant who owned the estate, of which it was part!
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
On this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, England, was bombed. General Johann Coetzee, former head of the South African security…
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
On 16 September 1902 Maude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, who lived, worked and exhibited in SA, England and France, was born in Johannesburg. Born in 1902…
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
Roger Brett Kebble was born on 19 February 1964 in Springs, on the East Rand. In the 1990’s Kebble got into mining and was soon director of three mining…