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Kas Maine was born in 1894, lived as a traditional black patriarch and sharecropper on the Highveld, and died at the age of 91 in a racially segregated rural slum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The seed is mine. The ploughshares are mine. The span of oxen is mine. Everything is mine. Only the land is theirs.\" Kas Maine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Historian Charles van Onselen's biography of Kas Maine, \u003cem\u003eThe Seed is Mine\u003c\/em\u003e, is a truly great work of devotion, to a man's life and to the discipline of history ... Van Onselen evokes the relentless, seasonal rhythms of Kas Maine's life like a Homer relating the wanderings of a black Odysseus. The book reveals a hero, but it does not spare us the ironies and cruelties of the patriarchal culture that defines this hero.\" Paul Trachtman, Smithsonian Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If ever one wondered whether the life of a single man could illuminate a century, [this] brilliant biography . . . proves the point.\" Carmel Schrire, The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Van Onselen] teases out the subtleties of the paternalistic relationships between rural whites and blacks which gave rise to real friendships but also to much betrayal, anger, and humiliation ... 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Published on the occasion of the exhibition February-March 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDada Khanyisa was born in 1991 in Umzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal. In 2016 they won the Simon Gerson Prize and in 2017 were commissioned to produce a mural painting at Constitution Hill. 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After the arrest of the core SLA members in 1975 Kilgore went underground for 27 years, mostly in southern Africa where he built a career as an educator, researcher and social justice activist in Zimbabwe and South Africa. During this time he wrote a number of books and academic articles under the pseudonym John Pape. He was arrested in Cape Town in November 2002 and extradited to the USA where he served six and a half years in prison. During his imprisonment he drafted several novels which were published on his release, including \u003cem\u003eWe Are All Zimbabweans Now\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFreedom Never Rests: a tale of democracy in South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e. 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