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1911-1991

Dorothy Joan Wright

… Dorothy Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under … and showed on its exhibitions in Cape Town in…

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Gebashe Mxolisi Bright

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Ngqungwana Lizo Bright

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Mxolisi Bright Gebashe

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Ngqungwana Lizo Bright

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1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… African Americans such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Richard Wright, struggled against marginalization in the public … Abrahams was introduced to the American writer…

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1890-1938

Wilhelmina Louisa Freund

… with Criemhilt Hahn, an accomplished violinist, and Annice Wright, a pianist. They provided the musical parts of the …

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1918-1975

Thomas Patrick Murray

… Murray was apprenticed to the engineering firm of Wright, Boag and Company Limited where he attained journeyman …

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1948

Zanemvula Kizito Mda

… their Black maids in the 1970s and was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2005. His 2005, novel, The Whale … Times Literary Prize, the Zora Neale…

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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto. He officially joined the Communist …

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1850-1933

Walter Ernest Stanford

… the arrival of the settlers; his mother was Mrs. William Wright a widow who had three children. The couple had three …

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1955-1985

Jacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake

Jacob Morake was born on 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night,…

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1982

Mary Sibande

This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist based in…

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1922-1998

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth,…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…

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1850-1916

Lord Kitchener

Best known for his famous recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary…

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1930

Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign…

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1938

Robert Cedric Wilcox

Robert Cedric Wilcox - a member of the NEUM/Unity Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa),…

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1964

Petrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers

Fanie de Villiers was born on the 13th October 1964 in Vereeniging. In 1985 he started playing for the Northern Transvaal cricket team and in the 1992/93…

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Unknown-2019

Julia Nicol

Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…

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2012

Michael Ngweyi

Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2009. On 16 August 2012 Michael was killed at scene 1 after being…

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1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

William Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi,…

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1931

Raymond Ackerman

Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…

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1937-2010

Tholakele Madala

Tholakele Madala was born in Kokstad on 13 July 1937. He matriculated at St John's College in Umtata before obtaining a BA degree at the University of Fort…

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1936

Mama Beshenga

During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act, there was great panic and confusion within the…

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1922-2011

Dorothy Cleminshaw

Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…

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The Taung Child

In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart discovered that it…

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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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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant public speaker,…

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various times as a clerk, journalist, court interpreter, and independent…

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