Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front and African National Congress activist, medical doctor, academic, researc...
Poet, playwright and short story writer.
Doctor, teacher, political activist, member of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC), reci...
Composer, linguist, teacher, professor, helped create the new South African national anthem, produced first opera by a B...
Stage, film, and television actress
Poet, writer, performance artist, activist, founder member of Bush Poets, the Afrikaans Writers Association (Afrikaanse ...
Linguist, writer, and educator
South African painter, ceramicist, art teacher and director of The Arts for All Centre.
Poet, novelist, political and cultural activist, banned person, co-founder of Congress of South African Writers, worked ...
Journalist, author, social activist, teacher, educator, broadcaster, political prisoner, banned person, exile, member of...
Scholar, author, literary historian
Former journalist, exposed policeman involved in Steve Biko’s death, ANC member, recipient of the Government’s National ...
Novelist, poet, first Black African Afrikaans author, court interpreter, recipient of the Government’s National Order of...
Playwright, poet, theatre director, broadcaster, arts administrator, Pan-African activist, founding member of AWA, MAWAF...
Academic, writer, Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, political activist, feminist, queer rights a...
An African postcolonial poet and academic who lectured at the University of Ibadan, the University of Zululand and the U...
Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist
Mr Jabulani Sikhakhane has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on fina...
Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural ev...
Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in S...
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos...
Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, So...
Born in 1962, Sandy Smit was an ECC Media Committee member, Jodac member and Afrapix photographer. On the 15th of June, ...
Zubeida Vallie was born in 1963 in Newlands, Cape Town from which she and her family were forcibly removed under the Gro...
John Liebenberg was born in 1958, in Johannesburg where he also currently works and lives. He was introduced to Namib...
Political prisoner, poet, journalist, and editor
Author, columnist, journalist, recipient of the European Union Literary Award, Multilingualism Award, Humanities and Soc...
playwright, artist, cultural activist, lobbyist for safeguarding cultural heritage and cultural development, life member...
Born on the Cape Flats in the apartheid era, Kenneth grew up at a time of political ferment, forced removals and resista...
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black arti...
Photographer, Lecturer
Photojournalist
Narrator, Actress
Award Winning Photographer, Photojournalist
Photographer, Photojournalist
Teacher, Photographer
Photographer, Painter, Sculptor
Short Story Writer, Art Editor, Lecturer, Director, Chairperson of the Afrikaans Writers' Guild
In summary: lawyer, judge, prosecutor, ordained pastor, academic and Chief Justice of South Africa
Founder member of AZASO, Member of the ANC, medical doctor, lecturer, member of Witwatersrand University Council, nati...
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