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… Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé Levetan) First. Julius, a furniture manufacturer, was born in Latvia … After matriculating from Jeppe High School for Girls, First studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, …

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… has stated that she considers herself a fine artist first before a poet. She spent most of her younger years … Die Huisgenoot and later in Standpunte .  In 1946, the first Stiebeuel Anthology published seven of her novels. Her first volume of poems Plektrum was published in 1970. It …

… University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In … Susan Blake only on account of the alphabet. She was the first female ophthalmologist in South Africa. Blake became … on these rural cases, and Franks was elected to the first committee of this section. In 1972 Franks was chosen as …

… was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth … Grey High School, a well- known sports school where first displayed his cricket skills. While at the school he … for the 1963–64 tour of Australia. His performance in the first two tests of the series was poor. This cast doubts …

… Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a … not studied overseas. In 1938 he visited Europe for the first time, and in 1939 he published his first book, ‘The …

… was believed to be a curse. Malahele-Xakana became the first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa in 1947, after becoming the first recipient of the Native Trust Fund to study medicine. … at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), and the first Black doctors had qualified in 1947. Malahele-Xakana …

… he was the moving spirit behind the convocation of the first synod (1824), was a member of the church executive (Moderatuur) for 43 years, first as Secretary and then as Registrar of the Synod, and … father of South African literature', because he made the first organised effort to promote literature in the country. …

… Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at … he studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, his first practice was at Ceres, also in the Cape Province. In … 1967, Professor Barnard and his team completed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant operation. …

… At Oxford, he obtained a BA in Jurisprudence with first class honours, the Jurisprudence Prize, BCL with first class honours and the Vinerian Scholarship. Cameron … on  AIDS/HIV , and helped to draft and negotiate the first comprehensive AIDS agreement with the Chamber of Mines. …

… Indian Girls’ School in Dartnell Crescent, which was the first Indian High school for girls. She was part of the first group of five Indian girls to matriculate in South … was appointed to the Natal Provincial Administration, the first Indian woman in this position. Here she served in both …

… Morice, South Africa’s first qualified veterinarian, was born in Barberton in 1904. She completed the first two years of pre-veterinary study at the University of …

… Nkosi became the first Black matron in the Natal Provincial Administration and … help the sick. She worked hard to reach her goal, and was first appointed ‘senior nurse’ at the King Edward Hospital …

… Dr Vosloo was South Africa's first female heart surgeon. She joined the heart team at the … in 1984, and completed her training in 1988. She did her first heart transplant when she was 33 years old, and went on …

… born on 26 June 1943 in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent … professional boxing ranks on 2 May 1966. He won his very first fight with a knockout in the first round. The partnership between Fourie and Toweel, one …

… (SABC) through the years.  In 1987 she became the first woman to take up the vice-chair position at the South … for Science and Art and also became the organisation’s first woman chairperson two years later. She was the first … die studie van die letterkunde (with A.P. Grové), 1966 M E R van naby gesien, Tafelberg, 1976 Die Afrikaanse Literatuur …

… in the Cape and educated at Healdtown, Mqoboli trained first as a teacher and then as a Methodist minister. … the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912 and became its first senior chaplain. He was active both in the Cape ANC and …

… in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife … All administration was done from there as well. During the first year she raised funds by selling her own sketches and … African Library for the Blind was officially opened by R.W. Bowen, then member of the Cape Provincial Council. Wood …

… with such notable actors and actresses as Lena Ashwell, F.R. Benson and Herbert Beerbohm Tree On returning to South … at the South African College of Music in Cape Town ”the first person in South Africa with the requisite … variety of plays at regular intervals in Cape Town in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Among their …

… before their forced removal. He would hear hip hop for the first time on a portable record player, owned by friends of … home music on vinyl. Ready D cites Rapper’s Delight as the first hip-hop song he heard, when he was 11. He says that … still “stuck on the sound he had heard” before. [3] His first exposure to the wider hip hop culture was through an …

… desire to resist and fight the inhuman system in her. She first became involved in politics at Livingstone High School … accept herself and others. Virginia was elected as the first Western Cape SASO Treasurer, but after the Executive … the activists' parents at their homes. This was her first encounter with the Special Branch. At the Caledon …

… his father influenced him musically, handing him his first harmonica at the age of 17.  Adam however, would only … time he advanced his compositional skills and recorded his first album ‘The Adam Glasser Quartet Live at the Space … Although Adam made waves musically, he only recorded his first debut album in 2009, Free at First, which won him the …

… He became a railway fitter and in 1902 helped found the first trades and Labour Council.In 1905 he became Amalgamated … in South Africa,he also helped to form the South Africa first labor federation. In 1909 he became the first chairman … He died in December 1950. His biography, Comrade Bill, by R.K. Cope, was published in 1944. …

… and a diplomat.  During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of … was born in 1890. When the  National Party  formed its first government in 1948 he became Minister of Economic …

… from the mid-1920s onward in the Western Cape , and the first woman to stand trial on the 'hostility' charge. An ally … of the eccentric "Professor" James Thaele , she was the first woman prosecuted under the clause of the Native …

… using the name "Boston Tababy".  He was arrested for the first time for fighting a White opponent. He also worked for … into property development and in the late 1950s He met his first wife, Lillian Jacobs. Stein was forcibly removed from … Six to the ‘Coloured’ area, Athlone. He was among the first to be removed in this way under the Group Areas Act. He …