Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008267 | biography | Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008265 | biography | Norma Kitson | 1933-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008264 | biography | Ian David Kitson | 1919-2010 | – |
| B-0008248 | biography | Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile | 1949 | – |
| B-0008243 | biography | Lungile Kepe | 1927 | – |
| B-0008238 | biography | Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng | 1919-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008232 | biography | Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa | 1923 | ✓ |
| B-0008225 | biography | Sam Kahn | 1911 | – |
| B-0008219 | biography | Plaatjies Joseph Paul | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0008201 | biography | Christina Jasson | 1928 | – |
| B-0008184 | biography | Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson | 1924-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0008182 | biography | Gopallal Hurbans | 1915 | – |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0008160 | biography | Bartholomew Hlapane | 1918-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008145 | biography | Frederick John Harris | 1937-1965 | ✓ |
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg…
Norma Kitson
Norma Kitson (nee Cranko) was born to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban. She was one of four children, and had an elder sister Joan…
Ian David Kitson
Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization…
Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile
Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the…
Lungile Kepe
Born in 1927 Kepe worked as a labourer. He took part in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the…
Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
Ntwaesele "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came…
Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa…
Sam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist…
Plaatjies Joseph Paul
Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as…
Christina Jasson
Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he…
Gopallal Hurbans
Born in 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and…
Isaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public…
Bartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to…
Frederick John Harris
Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party In 1962…