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The Taung Child

… In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor … rounder and the brain larger…

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1893-1988

Raymond Arthur Dart

… make him famous. While working with his students in the Taung limestone works in the Harts Valley in the present-day … which paid off in the end. Raymond…

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1866-1951

Robert Broom

… was further fuelled after Raymond Dart discovered the Taung child , a fossil given the species name Australopithecus …

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1925-2012

Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias

… - famous for his discovery of what became known as the Taung Skull in 1924 - and Professor Joe Gillman, he “fell … across the globe. The skull is now seen as…

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1927

William Sinclair Winship

… medical specialist on the Board of Management of Durban Child and Family Welfare. He was also chairperson of both the … Committee and the Advisory Committee…

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1987-2010

Donald Thumamina Mboto

… on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.  He was the ninth child of Thandiwe Daphney Mboto. He attended school at St. … hesitation, Mboto jumped into the water to…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… the South African National Gallery in 1999 and in "Every Child is my Child", done for the Office of the State President and shown … exhibition, South African…

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Maphuti Moraka

… was forced into the police van.She took a three-year old child into banishment but left her older children with an aunt. Another child was born in banishment…

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1966

Andrew Tshabangu

… 2001 Portrait of the spirit, Johannesburg, 2002 Every child is my child, Pretoria, 2000 A world of Christians: Christian art …

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1961-2010

Raymond Basil van Staden

… after a breathtaking feat trying to rescue a drowning child. At noon on that fateful day he was walking along the … which was too small to take all of them…

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Jeremiah Moraka

… was forced into a police van. She took a three-year old child into banishment but left the older children with an … struggled to feed and clothe the Moraka…

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1933-1965

Ingrid Jonker

… she had a short, unhappy marriage. Jonker was a sensitive child with a keen self-awareness and gifted beyond her years. … Mandela , in commenting on Jonker’s…

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1923-2016

Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden

… the University of KwaZulu-Natal) and subsequently opened a child psychology practice in the city of Durban, … clinic in London, England, as part of her…

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1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda McKenzie. He attended Melbourne … publications before curating and co…

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Stephen Zelwane Nkadimeng

… 10 shillings [R1] in cash and £1 [R2] for his partner and child, who joined in June 1961. His partner, who had never … and then walked for four hours with…

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1930-2012

Alfred Khumalo

… in time”. Khumalo had experienced this ability as a child, and this childhood obsession encouraged him to pursue …

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1853-1907

William Luscombe Searelle

… Australia) and an imperfect anagram of “Israel.” As a child he was taken to New Zealand and ran away to sea at the …

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1940-2023

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia

… when they were teenagers.  The couple did not have a child for many years.  As a result, his grandfather insisted … and her family, he remarried. Coovadia’s…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… representative of apartheid. They are presented as a child’s colouring book with titles that sarcastically allude … to someone’s life: “ The racial label put…

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1957

Anna Zieminski

… National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. 2000: 'Every Child is my Child'  Office of the State President. African Window Museum, …

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1969

Ernest “Ernie” Theodore Els

… in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the second born child of Neels and Hettie Els. At school Els was very sporty …

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1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

… Washington, DC. She also had a solo exhibition Go Well, My Child, at the National Museum of African Arts in Washington, … exhibition where one of her…

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1956

Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini

… then moved to Soweto . Manzini suffered from polio as a child and as a result spent close to four years in the … the country for Botswana . Her illness from…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… I was 11. I think it was because I was such a delicate child. But I loved to play in the street with my friends, … live with us, to help my mother run the…

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1956

Chris Ledochowski

… commissioned by The President’s Office on the state of the child in SA. He covered the rural region of the former Transkei. The result was a group exhibition…

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2012

Bongani Mdze

… the back of his head. He left behind his wife and a young child. He was also financially supporting his sister when he …

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1955

Diane Case

… school and Immaculata High School. A quiet and sensitive child who felt the pain of others very deeply, Diane found a … novel Albatross Winter, a story about…

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1963

Justice Sfiso Mkame

… Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did … and commenting upon painful experiences like…

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2012

Jackson Lehupa

… to take family members in place of an employee. Usually a child or partner replaces the deceased. If any such offer …

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1749-1823

Jacob Abraham de Mist

… Strubberg, who died after giving birth to their tenth child, Julie Philippe Augusta de Mist. After the death of his …

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