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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation, paper … and Resistance Festival, 1982. Dikobe wa…

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1897-1976

Helen Elizabeth Martins

… Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of … of her marriage remains sketchy and often contradictory.  Martins returned to…

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Benedict Duke Martins

… Benedict Duke Martins …

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Martin Nambala Wilpard

… South West Africa [now Namibia].  It was claimed that he was guilty of various misconducts.  He accused his wife of poisoning him and attempted to murder ……

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Martine Duma

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1986

Frank Martin

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1877-Unknown

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala

… Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some years in Rhodesia and served in an African unit in the Boer War. Thereafter he…

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Benedict Duke Martins

… Benedict Duke Martins …

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Martin Thebono Mahao

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Sehlapelo Martin Collin

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Bertram Martin Hirson

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Mvula Kapawasha Martin

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… kwaMashu, Durban. Together with other Fort Hare students he began to mobilise the support of parents and was … Joel (some sources spell his name as Jule)…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… for her role as the unconventional sculptor Helen Martins in The Road to Mecca , which marked her American debut. Based on the true story of the elderly…

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1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

… among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a pupil at St. Mary’s school in Orlando and went on to … refused to co-operate. In 1957…

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1946

Malcolm Payne

… printmaking at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). He then followed his studies in sculpture and mixed media at St Martins School of Art in London,…

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Jean Powell

Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the…

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1953

Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale

… the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black township's political upheaval. Sexwale attended St Martins…

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1942

Pitika Ntuli

… Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an active member of the struggle against the apartheid ……

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1450-1500

Bartolomeu Dias

… Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the … to India around the storm-driven southern tip…

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1948-2020

Ntongela Masilela

… (now known as Limpopo Province). A child of exile, he spent most of his life living outside of South Africa, leaving the country when he was still a teenager…

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1937

Abraham H. de Vries

… centre of the western Klein Karoo called, Ladismith. He matriculated at Ladismith High School and went on to study … as well as the Gemeentelijke…

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1933

Abdul Samad Minty

… as Limpopo Province). Minty grew up in Johannesburg where he completed his schooling. He left South Africa in June 1958, for Britain, to further … Olympic…

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1954

Reggie Williams

… 1954 in Flint, Michigan (USA). During his childhood, he was exposed to the inequalities that took place in American society, and he was part of civil rights…

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1934-1985

Sipho Samuel Hashe

… in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s.  During this period he became a member of the African…

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1952-1981

Krishna Rabilal

… excelling in both mathematics and physical science. He hated the Afrikaans language, calling it the language of the oppressor. He felt so strongly about this…

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Paula Ensor

Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…

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Mohamed Farouk Asvat

… International "Prisoner of Conscience" during this period. He was denied a passport until 1986 when he was issued with a highly restricted document; being ……

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1953-2020

Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela

… schooling at the local Mokgosi Primary School. At first, he wanted to become a lawyer, however, this changed once he was introduced to a number of African…

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1955-2021

Cecyl Esau

… Esau's father's interest in politics was sparked by what he had observed in various African countries. He was the first person who had kindled an interest in…

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