Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009191 | biography | Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa | 1923 | – |
| B-0009157 | biography | Dimitri Tsafendas | 14 January1918-1999 | – |
| B-0009139 | biography | T W Thibedi | – | – |
| B-0009105 | biography | Harold Strachan | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0009059 | biography | Professor Harold Jack Simons | 1907-1995 | – |
| B-0009039 | biography | Mark Shope | 1918-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0009031 | biography | Dorothy Shanley | 1920-2001 | – |
| B-0009025 | biography | Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0009021 | biography | Dulcie Evonne September | 1935-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008902 | biography | John Nyathi Pokela | 1922-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008889 | biography | Hector Pieterson | 1963-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008846 | biography | Albert Nzula | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008841 | biography | Siphiwe Nyanda | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008791 | biography | Carl Niehaus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008753 | biography | Sister Bernard Ncube | 1932-2012 | – |
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in…
Dimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him…
T W Thibedi
Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the…
Harold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma…
Professor Harold Jack Simons
Harold Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached…
Mark Shope
Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner…
Dorothy Shanley
Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest…
Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the…
Dulcie Evonne September
Dulcie Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was born on the 20th August 1935 in Royal rd, Maitland…
John Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In…
Hector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper…
Albert Nzula
Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in Herschel and at…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for…
Carl Niehaus
Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans…
Sister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and…