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Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
Biography
Oct 05, 2023

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia

Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front and African National Congress activist, medical doctor, academic, researc...

Gladys Thomas
Biography
May 14, 2022

Gladys Thomas

Poet, playwright and short story writer.

Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Biography
Aug 12, 2021

Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane

Doctor, teacher, political activist, member of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC), reci...

James Steven Mzilikazi  Khumalo
Biography
Jul 20, 2021

James Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo

Composer, linguist, teacher, professor, helped create the new South African national anthem, produced first opera by a B...

Shaleen Surtie-Richards
Biography
Jun 15, 2021

Shaleen Surtie-Richards

Stage, film, and television actress

Diana Ferrus
Biography
Apr 28, 2021

Diana Ferrus

Poet, writer, performance artist, activist, founder member of Bush Poets, the Afrikaans Writers Association (Afrikaanse ...

Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Biography
Feb 22, 2021

Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers

Linguist, writer, and educator

Eric Magamana Lubisi
Biography
Oct 06, 2020

Eric Magamana Lubisi

South African painter,  ceramicist, art teacher and director of The Arts for All Centre.

Achmat Dangor
Biography
Sep 07, 2020

Achmat Dangor

Poet, novelist, political and cultural activist, banned person, co-founder of Congress of South African Writers, worked ...

Terry Bell
Biography
Aug 05, 2020

Terry Bell

Journalist, author, social activist, teacher, educator, broadcaster, political prisoner, banned person, exile, member of...

Ntongela Masilela
Biography
Jul 30, 2020

Ntongela Masilela

Scholar, author, literary historian

Traci Mackie
Biography
Jul 03, 2020

Traci Mackie

Former journalist, exposed policeman involved in Steve Biko’s death, ANC member, recipient of the Government’s National ...

Arthur Nuthall Fula
Biography
Jul 02, 2020

Arthur Nuthall Fula

Novelist, poet, first Black African Afrikaans author, court interpreter, recipient of the Government’s National Order of...

Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Biography
Jun 18, 2020

Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela

Playwright, poet, theatre director, broadcaster, arts administrator, Pan-African activist, founding member of AWA, MAWAF...

Stella Nyanzi
Biography
Apr 30, 2020

Stella Nyanzi

Academic, writer, Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, political activist, feminist, queer rights a...

Harry Garuba
Biography
Mar 31, 2020

Harry Garuba

An African postcolonial poet and academic who lectured at the University of Ibadan, the University of Zululand and the U...

Harold Strachan
Biography
Feb 13, 2020

Harold Strachan

Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist

Jabulani Sikhakhane
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Jabulani Sikhakhane

Mr Jabulani Sikhakhane has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on fina...

Rodger Bosch
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Rodger Bosch

Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural ev...

Mike Hutchings
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Mike Hutchings

Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in S...

Lloyd Spencer
Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Lloyd Spencer

Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos...

Biography
Jan 22, 2020

Brett Eloff

Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, So...

Biography
Jan 20, 2020

Sandi Smit

Born in 1962, Sandy Smit was an ECC Media Committee member, Jodac member and Afrapix photographer. On the 15th of June, ...

Biography
Jan 20, 2020

Zubeida Vallie

Zubeida Vallie was born in 1963 in Newlands, Cape Town from which she and her family were forcibly removed under the Gro...

John Liebenberg
Biography
Jan 20, 2020

John Liebenberg

John Liebenberg was born in 1958, in Johannesburg where he also currently works and lives. He was introduced to Namib...

Sandile Dikeni
Biography
Nov 13, 2019

Sandile Dikeni

Political prisoner, poet, journalist, and editor

Fred Khumalo
Biography
Nov 04, 2019

Fred Khumalo

Author, columnist, journalist, recipient of the European Union Literary Award, Multilingualism Award, Humanities and Soc...

Stephen Joel Chifunyise
Biography
Oct 08, 2019

Stephen Joel Chifunyise

playwright, artist, cultural activist, lobbyist for safeguarding cultural heritage and cultural development, life member...

Kenneth Alexander
Biography
Oct 04, 2019

Kenneth Alexander

Born on the Cape Flats in the apartheid era, Kenneth grew up at a time of political ferment, forced removals and resista...

Biography
Sep 18, 2019

Ebrahim Badsha

Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black arti...

Deseni Soobben
Biography
Sep 14, 2019

Deseni Soobben

Photographer, Lecturer

Chris Qwazi
Biography
Sep 12, 2019

Chris Qwazi

Photojournalist

Nomhle Nkonyeni
Biography
Sep 12, 2019

Nomhle Nkonyeni

Narrator, Actress 

Jon Lynton David Hrusa
Biography
Sep 11, 2019

Jon Lynton David Hrusa

Award Winning Photographer, Photojournalist

Bongani Mnguni
Biography
Sep 10, 2019

Bongani Mnguni

Photographer, Photojournalist

Ashley La Grange
Biography
Sep 06, 2019

Ashley La Grange

Teacher, Photographer

Albert Newall
Biography
Sep 04, 2019

Albert Newall

Photographer, Painter, Sculptor

Abraham H. de Vries
Biography
Sep 03, 2019

Abraham H. de Vries

Short Story Writer, Art Editor, Lecturer, Director, Chairperson of the Afrikaans Writers' Guild

Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng

In summary: lawyer, judge, prosecutor, ordained pastor, academic and Chief Justice of South Africa

Molefi Paul Sefularo
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Molefi Paul Sefularo

Founder member of AZASO, Member of the ANC,   medical doctor, lecturer, member of Witwatersrand University Council, nati...