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Abdullah Ibrahim
People category: Arts & HumanitiesSouth African musician, Abdullah Ibrahim was born on the 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa. Born Adolph Johannes Brand, he converted to Islam in 1968...
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Judith Mason
People category: Arts & HumanitiesBorn Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She matriculated from the Pretoria...
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Molefe Pheto
People category: Arts & HumanitiesMolefe Pheto grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg. As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and...
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Ray Berman
People category: Arts & HumanitiesBorn and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national household name in...
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Pule Pheto
People category: Arts & HumanitiesPule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto, was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and...
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Buchi Emecheta
People category: Arts & HumanitiesBuchi Emecheta Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, writer, born 21 July 1944; died 25 January 2017Born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the...
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Dali Tambo
People category: Arts & HumanitiesSynopsis:Activist, Filmmaker, TV-personality, businessman and son of the late Oliver Tambo. First name: DaliLast name: TamboDate of birth: 1 March 1959
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Sydney Kumalo
People category: Arts & HumanitiesSydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded Abyssinia (later called...
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Martin Tose
People category: Arts & HumanitiesThe quiet and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the...
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Barend de Wet
People category: Arts & HumanitiesBarend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness...
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o
People category: Arts & Humanities Image sourceThe academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru,...
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Esmé Berman
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWomenEsmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and...
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Francis Wilson
People category: Arts & HumanitiesFrancis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this time...
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Juda Ngwenya
People category: Arts & HumanitiesPicture: Janice Keogh, City Press Image sourceJuda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even...
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Mattheus Uys Krige
People category: Arts & HumanitiesUys Krige Image sourceMattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most...
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Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
People category: Arts & HumanitiesPolitics & LabourWomenSynopsis:Attorney, university lecturer, first woman to open her own law practice in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), first Black woman judge...
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Ronnie Govender
People category: Arts & HumanitiesRonnie Govender was born on 16May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was born in Cato Manor and his mother was born in Fynnlands,...
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David Dabede Mabuza
People category: Arts & HumanitiesCommunityOffice BearersPolitics & LabourDeputy President of the ANC, David Dabede MabuzaDavid Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He...
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Keorapetse William Kgositsile
People category: Arts & HumanitiesLives of couragePolitics & LabourKeorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended...
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Ronnie Govender
People category: Arts & HumanitiesRonnie Govender was born on 16May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was born in Cato Manor and his mother was born in Fynnlands,...
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