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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:43:48 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his father was a builder belonging to the Christian faith, while his mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced [...]

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Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:04:43 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese shop in Sophiatown. When Joe was three years old he left Johannesburg along with his mother, who was expecting her second child. They returned to Limpopo [...]

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Sindiwe Magona

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:53:56 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona earned her secondary and undergraduate education by correspondence, and later won a scholarship to study for her Master’s Degree in Social Work at Columbia University in the [...]

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Nise Bulelwa Malange

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:34:35 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Nise Malange was born in Cape Town. At an early age, she was influenced by her uncle, Rev. Marawu, who had just returned from serving time on Robben Island. Her fascination with her uncle made her follow him everywhere he went. As a result, she became exposed to his work with trade unions. [...]

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Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:19:45 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe was born on 22 March 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua Matsepe, senior police sergeant and the grandson of Chief Bloeu of the Kopa tribe. Although Matsepe came from a non-Christian family, he received his education at mission schools. From 1942 to 1949 he [...]

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John Matshikiza

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:11:49 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza’s father, Todd, was a renowned jazz pianist, composer and journalist who shot to fame in 1958 with his musical King Kong, which had an all-black cast. King Kong [...]

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James David Matthews

Consciousness Admin — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:45:04 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za James Matthews was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing standard seven, Matthews began to work and held a variety of jobs, including newspaper boy, office messenger, clerk and telephonist. However, for Matthews, the lure of words and the art of expression were [...]

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Don Mattera

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:58:36 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a Xhosa or Khoisan woman from the Cape. His grandfather then moved to Johannesburg where Mattera’s father was born and classified Italian by the authorities. His mother was a Motswana [...]

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Mzwakhe Mbuli

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:49:46 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa woman, and Elijah Katali, a Zulu man who was employed as a long-distance driver. In 1966, the town was bulldozed and Mbuli’s family, which included seven brothers and sisters, was forcibly removed to Soweto. [...]

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Zanemvula Kizito Mda

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:33:13 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a school teacher, who later became a lawyer. His father was a founding member and later became the President of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in 1947. In the [...]

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