Biography Index
| Last name | First name | Synopsis | Date of birth | Date of death | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ebenezer | Mdiliza | ||||
 | Ebrahim | Ahmed | Member of the PAC and later the ANC, PAC Chief Representative to various countries and its Secretary for Foreign Affairs, PAC Chief Representative to the UN, founder member of SANROC, exiled person, PAC Member of Parliament. | 29-May-1936 | 25-November-1999 |
 | Ebrahim | Ebrahim | Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, African National Congress and the ANC's National Executive Committee. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | 01-July-1937 | 6 December 2021 |
 | Ebraim | Mbele | |||
| Eddie | James | 1916 | 2002 | |
 | Edelstein | Jillian | Photograher especially in editorial and advertising photography | 21-August-1958 | |
| Edelstein | Melville | 16-June-1976 | |||
| Edgar | Magwaza | |||
| Edgar | Mahlobo | |||
| Edger | Ngoyi | |||
| Edmond | Mazwai | |||
| Edmund | Myesa | |||
| Edmund | Nkosi | |||
| Edward | Mthembu | |||
| Edward | Mkhiza | |||
| Edward | Pearce | |||
| Edward | Mbundu | |||
| Edward | Petane | |||
| Edward | Sekanyane | |||
| Edward | Marupeng | |||
| Edward | Cebisi | |||
| Edward | Lawrence | |||
| Edwards | Ray | |||
 | Edwards | Ethel | 1880 | ||
| Eesterhuizen | Johannes | 26-December-1976 | |||
 | Effendi | Mohammed | Dr Mohammed Shukri Effendi was the first person of colour to graduate as a medical doctor from the University of Cape Town (UCT), completing his degree in 1942. His achievement predates the previously recognised first black UCT medical graduates - Maramoothoo Samy-Padiachy, Cassim Saib, and Ralph Lawrence - who graduated in 1945. Despite this pioneering accomplishment, Dr Effendi remained largely unknown in South African history until researcher Dr Halim Gençoğlu uncovered his story in 2016 through archival research. | 8 December 1915 | 1946 |
 | Egersdorfer | Heinrich | Artist | 1853 | 29-April-1915 |
| Egert | Simon | |||
| Egert | Simon | 1922 | |||
 | Eglin | Colin | Former Member of Parliament and a founder member of the Progressive Party, Officer of the Order of the Disa and recipient of the National Order of the Baobab | 14-April-1925 | 29-November-2013 |
| Eisenstein | Roman | Member of the African Resistance Movement and a political prisoner | ||
| Ekandjo | Jeremiah | ||||
| Ekandjo | Eniokamati | |||
| Ekandjo | Enio | ||||
| Elby | July | |||
| Eliana | Gertz | |||
| Elias | Mqagi | |||
| Elias | Makhura | |||
| Elias | Molefe | |||
| Elias | Khethwa | |||
| Elkin | Nkosi | |||
| Elliot | Gasa | |||
| Elliot | Motshwa | |||
| Elliot | Mtsali | |||
| Elliot | Lloyd | |||
| Elliot | Dudumashe | |||
| Elliot | Radebe | |||
| Elliot | Charles | 09-September-1976 | |||
| Elliot | Mazantsane | |||
| Ellison | Maseko | |||
 | Elmendorp | Ellen | Documentary Photographer | ||
| Eloff | Brett | ||||
| Elphus | Mdlalose | |||
 | Els | Ernest "Ernie" | Internationally acclaimed golfer | 17-October-1969 | |
| Elvis | Hoko | |||
 | Emecheta | Buchi | Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian author who focused on the conditions of women. | 21 July 1944 | 25 January 2017 |
| Emmamally | S. | |||
| Emmanuel | Ntsele | |||
 | Engblom | Peter | Photographer | ||
 | Engel | Virginia | Member of NUSAS, SASO, UWO, co-ordinator of the SACTWU Welfare Trust and a trade unionist | 27-April-1950 | 18-May-2015 |
| Engelen | Alfred Pieter Lodewijk Frederik (Fred) | flemish drama personality, actor and producer, and promoter of Afrikaans theatre; first professor of dramatics and stagecraft at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. | 20 December 1912 | 3 December 1967 |
| Enoch | Fokwana | |||
 | Ensor | Paula | Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT | ||
| Ephraim | Maphumulo | |||
| Ephraim | Butshingi | |||
| Ephraim | Buhula | |||
| Ephriam | Mongala | |||
 | Erasmus | Barend | Trade unionist | 29 December 1918 | 1973 |
 | Erasmus | Garth | Artist | 12 April 1956 | |
| Eric | Charlie | |||
| Eric | Mani | |||
| Eric | Yegani | |||
| Eric | Makomoreng | |||
| Eric | Mboyi | |||
| Eric | Mabuto | |||
| Ernest | Nzube | |||
| Ernest | Moseneke | |||
| Ernest | Malete | |||
| Ernest | Malgas | |||
| Ernst | David | 2015 | ||
| Errol | Dapula | |||
 | Erwin | Alexander (Alec) | Member of NUSAS, member of the ANC, Trade unionist, General Secretary and Education secretary of FOSATU, Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister | 17 January 1948 | |
 | Esakjee | Suliman | Political activist and Treason Trialist involved in the Traansvaal Indian Congress, the Congress of the People, the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign and the Defiance Campaign. | 1928 | 01-February-2009 |
| Esau | Ramontsho | |||
 | Esau | Cecyl | Member of the Labour Party Youth Organisation, General Secretary of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at UWC, founder member of the Cape Youth Congress, rural organiser for the UDF in the greater part of the Cape Province | 30 September 1955 | 17 March 2021 |
| Essack | Abdool | |||
| Essack | Dr. | |||
 | Essak | Abdool | Political activist, academic and member of APDUSA and Unity Movement | 1932 | 29 April 1997 |
| Essop | Mohamed | ||||
| Essop | Yunus | |||
| Essop | Mohamed | |||
| Essop | Dawood | 25-August-1976 | |||
 | Esterhuyse | Willie | A leading academic, writer, philosopher and intellectual, trustee of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, chair of Artscape (Cape Town), board member of the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival and of Freedom Park, trustee of the Nations Trust and recipient of Th | 1936 | |
| Evans | David | A member of the African Resistance Movement | ||
| Evans | Dave | |||
 | Everard-Steenkamp | Rosamund | 1907 | 1946 | |
| Ezekiel | Motaung |