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Zanele Muholi
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWomenZanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg. Muholi’s work has been recognized for its radical emphasis on marginalized...
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Mary Sibande
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWomenThis 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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Berni Searle
People category: Arts & HumanitiesThis biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO.MODUS OPERANDIWhen Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist...
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Jo Ractliffe
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWomenThis biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with ArtthrobMODUS OPERANDIJo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence,...
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Emile Maurice
People category: Arts & HumanitiesBorn in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, curator, author educator and Nation builder. He received an Advanced Diploma in...
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Randolph Hartzenberg
People category: Arts & HumanitiesRandolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance.Through his paintings, installations and...
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Ari Sitas
People category: Arts & HumanitiesAri Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a professor...
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People category: Arts & HumanitiesNgobese was born in 1960 in KwaMashu but he later moved to Cator Manor Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School and...
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Tracy Payne
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWomenTracy Payne’s hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She was born in 1965 in Cape...
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Wim Botha
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town on...
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Junaid Ahmed
People category: Arts & HumanitiesImage SourceInternational award winning filmmaker Junaid Ahmed was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary...
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Mannie Manim
People category: Arts & HumanitiesMannie Manim Mannie Manim was born in July 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and...
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Arthur Goldreich
People category: Lives of couragePolitics & LabourArts & HumanitiesArthur Goldreich Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg in 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now...
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Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens
People category: Arts & HumanitiesImage SourceNico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition...
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Cecil Sols
People category: Arts & HumanitiesCecil SolsSynopsis:Photographer and member of AfrapixFirst name: CecilLast name: Sols
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Judy Anne Seidman
People category: Arts & HumanitiesFirst name: JudyMiddle name: AnneLast name: Seidman
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Pitika Ntuli
People category: Arts & HumanitiesFirst name: PitikaLast name: NtuliDate of birth: 1942Location of birth: Springs, Gauteng
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Lefifi Tladi
People category: Arts & HumanitiesFirst name: Lefifi Last name: TladiDate of birth: 1949Location of birth: Lady Selborne, Pretoria
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Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi
People category: Arts & HumanitiesGwigwi Mrwebi, also called ‘Bra Gwigwi’, whose birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to...
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Adam Glasser
People category: Arts & HumanitiesAdam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his...
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