Biography Index

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Last name	First name	Synopsis	Date of birth	Date of death
Aba	Lickard
Abdulla	G.
Abduraghman	Shamar
Abdurahman	Abdullah	Medical Doctor, Cape Muslim leader & founder of the anti-apartheid movement, African People's Organisation and human rights campaigner.	18 December 1872	02 February 1940
Abdurahman	Abdullah	Medical Doctor, Cape Muslim leader & founder of the anti-apartheid movement, African People's Organisation and human rights campaigner.	18-December-1872	02-February-1940
Abednego	Maduna
Abishayi	Sibene
Abner	Mkhonza
Abner	Sithole
Abraham	Eric		1954
Abraham	Lentswane
Abraham	Marawa
Abrahams	Israel	Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar, part-time professor of Hebrew at the University of Cape Town, chairman of the Jewish Museum and Historical Society, trustee of the Cape Town Jewish Orphanage, vice-president of the Society of Christians and Jews, a member of the Council of the South African Institute of Race Relations, and served on the board of the Cape Community Chest.	12 March 1903	27 October 1973
Abrahams	Elizabeth	Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist	19-September-1925	17-December-2009
Abrahams	Peter	Author, journalist	03-March-1919	18-January-2017
Abrahams	Lionel
Abrahams	John
Abrahams	Abduragman
Abrahams	Elizabeth
Abrahams	Peter
Abrahams	Abduragman
Abrahams	George
Abram	Magogula
Abram	Motau
Abram	Sebopela
Acacia	Hoho
Ackerman	Raymond	Business Entreprenuer, who built the Checkers and Pick 'n Pay grocery store chains in South Africa.	10 March 1931
Ackermann	L.W.H
Action	Mukatezi
Adam	Feroza	Member of AZASO,FEDTRAW, UDF and ANC.	16-August-1961	08-August-1994
Adam	Martin
Adam	Magamonke
Adam	Masamonke
Adams	Farid	Member of the SAIC and the SACP, 1956 Treason Trialist	30-November-1933
Adams	Magdelene Malotane
Adams	Arthur	South African Expressionist painter“My work is based on my experience of South Africa as a 'vast and terrifying prison' - an experience which even now, after a decade of democracy, still haunts me."	23-June-1929	31-December-2006
Adams	Sandra			16-September-1976
Adams	Sydney
Adams	Dorothy	A teacher and activist, member of the Non European Unity Movement and the National Liberation Front.	1928	May 2011
Adams	Dorothy		1928
Adams	Farid
Adelman	Samuel
Adelman	Samuel		17 April 1956
Aderem	Alan		20 November 1953
Adinort	Sipela
Adler	David
Adler	Taffy
Adler	David
Afrika	Harry
Afrika	Harry
Aggett	Neil	Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the first White South African to die in police detention	06-October-1953	05-February-1982
Aggrey	James	Educator and Clergyman	18-October-1875	30-July-1927
Ahmed	Junaid	General Secretary of the Congress of South African Writers, film maker.	1959	01-November-2016
Ahmed	Sheik
Ainslie	William	Artist	10 April 1934	1989
Ainslie	Rosalind
Aitchison	John	Member of NUSAS and Liberal Party of South Africa, Secretary of the Party in Natal, banned person, political prisoner, university lecturer, Emeritus Professor of Adult Education, ordained deacon in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, Directo
Aitken	Ramadzuli
Aiyar	P.
Ajam	Achmat
Ajam	Achmat
Akila	Mapheto
Alan	Jeremy
Albasini	João	White Chief of the Shangaan, elephant-hunter and trader	1 June 1813	10 July 1888
Albern	Bazil			09-September-1976
Albert	Matinise
Albert	Gama
Albert	Matinise
Albert	Mazibuko
Albert	Mbekwa
Alberts	Paul	One of South Africa's leading social documentary photographers	1946	18-November-2010
Albertyn	Christopher	trade unionist, Secretary of the Textile Workers Industrial Union, banned person
Aleck	Chirwa
Alexander	Kerr	Educationist and churchman	1885	21 February 1970
Alexander	Benny (!Khoisan X)	Political activist and former PAC secretary general.	04-March-1955	13-October-2010
Alexander	Jane	Artist	1959
Alexander	Daniel	Political activist and Clergyman	23-December-1883	May-1970
Alexander	Ruth	member of Cape Women’s Enfranchisement League, friend of Olive Schreiner, politically opposed Jan Smuts government, lecturer, writer, member of the Communist Party in Britain.	1888	1942
Alexander	Dorothy	Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned person, exile	7 August 1938
Alexander	Neville	Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent of socialist ideals and policy in the country, and a former prisoner in Robben Island, member of the NEUM, founder member of Y	22-October-1936	27-August-2012
Alexander	Forbes
Alexander	Ngcobo
Alexander	Dora
Alexander	Kenneth	Born on the Cape Flats in the apartheid era, Kenneth grew up at a time of political ferment, forced removals and resistance. His art reflects this period and is often social comment.	1955/06/24
Alexander	Dorothy	Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned person, exile	7 August 1938
Alfers	Joseph	Photographer, reporter, television and media producer	1949
Alfeus	Sacharius
Alfred	Baliso
Alfred	Duma
Alfred	Liwana
Alfred	Masemola
Alfred	Ndlovu
Alfred	Ramanyoge
Alfred	Shabalala
Ali	Syed Raza		1882	1949
Ali	Abraham
Alie	Mohammed
Alie	Mohammed
Allen	Mathonsi
Allen	Ndodomzi
Allie	Abduraghman			07-September-1976
Allsop	Annie	A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM). Banned by the apartheid government.
Ally	Lumkwane
Alocia	Mthenyane
Alpheus	Dlamini
Alpheus	Bokaba
Alpheus	Malaza
Alphios	Bangani
Alset	Walter			07-September-1986
Alson	Mathunjwa
Altman	Phyllis	Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)	25-September-1919	18-September-1999
Altman	Phullis
Altman	Phyllis		1919	1999
Alton	Bequezi
Alvin	Mdyova
Ames	Frances
Ames	Frances	Professor, neurologist, psychiatrist, human rights activist, led the medical ethics inquiry into the death of Steve Biko, recipient of the Order of the Star of South Africa award, first woman to receive a MD degree from UCT	20 April 1920	11 November 2002
Amon	Mkhonza
Amos	Dlomo
Amos	Ndoni
Amos	Witbooi
Amoshungepi	Lengisi
Amra	Cassim	Banned person, journalist, photographer, member of the NIC	1919	1984
Amshewitz	John Henry		1882	1942
Amungulu	Naftalie
Amungulu	Naftalie
Andersen	Nils		1897	1972
Anderson	David	Political Cartoonist, illustrator and writer
Andersson	Gavin
Andersson	Michael
Andile	Hewukile
Andile	Mvuka
Andrew	Mapheto
Andrew	Mashaba
Andrew	Nobatana
Andrew	Ratsomo
Andrew	Shetlabane
Andrews	William	Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.	20-March-1870	December 1950
Andrews	Bosky
Andrews	Paul
Andries	Maponya
Andries	Maponya
Andries	Mkhawane
Andries	Pitikwane
Anglia	C.
Anthony	Frank	Member of Non European Unity Movement (NEUM), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, poet, and author	1940
Anthony	Frans
Anthony	Jacobs
Anthony	Mbatyoti
Anthony	Suze
Anton	Xaba
Anwa	Dramat
Apleni	James		1930	5 March 1963
Appolis	Christopher			10-September-1976
April	James	Teacher, member of the South African Coloured People’s Congress and MK, ANC, Robben Island prisoner.	20-March-1940
April	Duhalisile
April	Bradfield
April	Hose
April	Maushe
April	Maxim
April	Nqubeni
April	Lindile			April 1986
April	Stanely
April	Wellington
April	Edward
Archibald	Soga
Archibald	Skefile
Archibald	Skefile
Archibold	Matyingwe
Archibold	Skofile
Arenstein	Jacqueline(Jackie)	Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, charged with treason, 1956 Treason Trial.	06-June-1921
Arenstein	Rowley	Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor, member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi	07-July-1918	04-May-1996
Arenstein	Jacqueline		1921
Ariba	Lancelot	Artist and architect	1891
Armstrong	Khatsala
Arndt	Ruth Elizabeth		1890	3 September 1841
Arndt	Ernst Heinrich Daniël	Lecturer and Registrar of Banks.	27 May 1899	3 May 1983
Arnold	Ben	Artist	19-July-1942
Arnold	G.
Aron	Mtembu
Arturo	Du
Ashley	Budaza
Ashraf	Kariem
Asmal	Kader	Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs,(1994 – 1999) and a member of Parliament in the National Assembly from 1994– 2007.	08-October-1934	22-June-2011
Asmal	Mohamed (Bob) Suleman	Commerical traveller, executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and a member of the Evaton People’s Transport Council.	1923	12 December 1966
Asvat	Zainab	Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor	1920	30-November-2013
Asvat	Abu	Activist. Azapo Comrade. Doctor. Cricketer. Humanitarian. Health Secretary of Azapo, President of the Transvaal Cricket Board (1979-1981), President of the People’s Education Committee (Lenasia) (1986-1989).	23 February 1943	27 January 1989
Asvat	Ebrahim	A passive resister from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng), Member of Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of the BIA Johannesburg branch, political prisoner		3 July 1940
Asvat	Mohamed	Farouk Asvat is a novelist, poet, essayist, translator and medical doctor. He was banned by the South African apartheid regime between 1973 and 1978.
Atazaxes	Phiri
Attwell	Gcwaba
Attwell	Eric	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)who was banned by the apartheid government.
Atwell	Masauli
Auerbach	Franz
August	Lucky
Autshumao	Autshumao	KhoiKhoi leader and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas.		1663
Avhapfani	Mukhesi
Azaria	Ndebele
Azariah	Nkosi
Azariah	Nkosi

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