Biography Index

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Last name	First name	Synopsis	Date of birth	Date of death
Gaba	Tesile
Gaba	Seth
Gaba	Joseph
Gabase	John
Gabase	John
Gabashane	Daniel	Graphic designer and ceramic sculptor	1949
Gabehekile	Mabona
Gabela	D.Boy	Unita Ambushes		03-March-1988
Gabriel	Sexwale
Gabriels	Ernest
Gabula	Douglas
Gacula	Coleman
Gadlela	Sitelega	Miner, Worker, Marikana Casuality		16 August 2012
Gaetsewe	John	Trade unionist, member of the ANC and General Secretary of SACTU, Robben Island prisoner, banned person	1916	December 1988
Gaetswe	John
Gaga	Ngeni			09-May-1965
Gagarin	Boston
Gaika	Aaron
Gajane	Roseman
Gajani	Roseman
Gajula	Sam
Galela	Twasile	Organising Secretary of PEBCO, member of UDF, one of the ‘Pebco Three’	24-October-1947	08-May-1985
Galela	Righard
Galeni	Sityotile
Galeni	Masayidini
Galeni	Zityotini
Galeta	Hotep	Jazz musician and music educator	07-June-1941	03-November-2010
Gama	Albert	Training accident
Gama	Mbeka
Gambushe	Sithadathu
Gandhi	Mohandas	lawyer, founder of the Natal Indian Congress, political prisoner, leader of the Indian community in South Africa, political activist against the White South African Government and the British Government in India	02-October-1869	30-January-1948
Gandhi	Ela	Peace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women, member of the NIC, ANC and the UDF, Member of Parliament from 1994-2004	01-July-1940
Gandhi	Manilal	Editor and political activist, member of the NIC and son of Mahatma Gandhi.	28-October-1892	1956
Gandhi	Sushila	Politcal activist and newspaper publisher	24 August 1907	November 1988
Gandhi	Kasturba	Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known as Mahatma Gandhi, has not been studied much in works on Gandhi. There are few references to her life and role in the Mahatma’s life. However, she played an important part in independence and equality campaigns.	11-April-1869	22-February-1944
Gane	Gillian	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.
Gangathele	Balisile
Gangathele	Balisile
Gans	Charles
Ganya	Dlevalile
Ganyile	Anderson	Member of the ANCYL and ANC, political detainee, banished person	1935
Ganyile	Daniel
Ganyile	Mtetunzima	Banished person
Ganyoti	Mpilwayikanjwa
Gardiner	Lettie	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).
Gardiner	Michael	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).
Gardner	Colin	Rhodes scholar, member of the Liberal Party of South Africa, Professor of English, Dean of the Arts at UKZN, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Christian Institute and Justice and Peace Commission,	26 June 1933	10 October 2013
Garnie	R.W.			26-December-1976
Garry	Nyembe
Gasa	Elliot
Gasa	David		1928
Gasa	Muntu			21 July 1991
Gasa	Faith	Inkatha Freedom Party student activist, teacher, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member, IFP Secretary, IFP Women’s Brigade chairperson, member of the IFP delegation to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), IFP Member of Parliament in the National Assembly, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal.	1 January 1945	4 August 2005
Gasetsilie	Mangope
Gasnola	Suleman			09-September-1976
Gaso	Margaret
Gastrow	Peter	South African Politician and former Parliamentarian.	08-June-1947
Gasupani	Marvin			1987
Gaus	Shikomba
Gaveni	Kefile
Gawe	Walker	Member of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU), active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, President of the Cape Branch of the African National Congress (ANC), accused in the Treason Trial.	30-November-1899	16-October-1980
Gaxa	Mqotyi
Gayinkani	Mkhwamubi
Gayisa	David			July 1989
Gaza	Bonani			06-August-1988
Gaza	Thompson
Gazi	Anthony	Robben Island prisoner
Gazides	Dr. Constantinos
Gazidis	Costa	A member of the South African Congress of Democrats, South African Communist Party, and the Pan Africanist Congress
Gazo	Margaret	Member of the ANCWL, one of the organisers of the 1956 Women’s March against the pass system, political prisoner and recipient of the Order of Luthuli in Bronze.	01-January-1918	08-April-1974
Gazongo	James			30-April-1983
Gcabashe	Thomas			17 December 1991
Gcabatshe	Posselt
Gcadana	Zithobile		1927
Gcanga	Siyabulela
Gcezengela	Gerry
Gcina	Mzimasi			11-November-1983
Gcina	Mziwoxolo
Gcina	Mthetheleli			11/11/89
Gcina	Daniel
Gcinumzi	Theophilus
Gcobo	Matoto
Gcwabe	Atwell
Gcwensa	Bernard	Artist	1918	1984
Gebashe	Mxolisi
Gedleyihlekisa	Zuma
Geer	Ahmed	SADF Raids
Gelblum	R.
Gelem	Godula		1929	30 May 1967
Gell	Christopher W. M.	Journalist	1917	1958
Gelo	Temba
Genu	Mosotho
George	Thembalake			16-August-1985
George	Ngqunge
George	Ntshidi
George	Rafuza
George	Sinkumkanka
George	Sithole
George	Shadreck		1941	21 March 1962
Gerald	Ganyqaza	Unita ambushes		03-March-1988
Gerald	Mgole
Gerhard	Dieter	Given life imprisonment
Gerhard	Ruth	Imprisoned for ten years
Gerhardt	Dieter	Former Commodore in the South African Navy Commander of the strategic Simon’s Town naval dockyard Arrested by the FBI in New York City in 1983 following information obtained from a Soviet defector. Convicted of high treason as a Soviet spy in South Africa together with his second wife, Ruth, who had acted as his courier. Both were released prior to the change of government following the 1994 general election.
Gertrude	Sofute
Gerwel	Gert “Jakes”	Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mandela.	18-January-1946	28-November-2012
Gethebe	William
Getse	Sine
Geyama	Obeyi
Ghorkhodu	Rustomjee	Businessperson, Vice-President of the NIC, passive resister, political prisoner, philanthropist.	August 1861	14 November 1924
Gibbs	Herschelle	South African cricket player	23 February 1974
Gideon	Mahanjana
Gideon	Mdhletshe
Gigaba	Malusi	African National Congress Youth League president, African National Congress NWC member, Chairman of South African Student Congress and the Minister for Public Enterprises.	30 August 1971
Gigaba	Babalekile	Banished person
Gijimani	Gilbert
Gila	Mlutu
Gilbert	Sedibe
Gilbert	Yonke
Gilder	Barry	Member of the African National Congress
Gilfillan-Weidema	Durkje	Nurse, pathologist, attorney, land rights activist, Land Claims Commissioner, Regional Director of the Legal Resources Centre	2 September 1946	5 April 2011
Gill	Marion	Artist	1879	1959
Gillwald	Cheryl	Community worker, member of the African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament, Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services	13 December 1956	27 July 2010
Gincana	Atwell			18-June-1976
Ginsberg	Gerson
Ginwala	Frene	Journalist, editor, lecturer, lawyer, radio programme producer, member of the ANC, politician and former speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa 1994-2004, chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal 2005-2009	25-April-1932
Gishi	Jackson			27-December-1976
Giyama	Sidlwana
Giyose	Pirvus
Giyose	Mallet
Gladman	Bobo
Gladstone	Booi
Gladwell	Mbali
Glass	C.
Glasser	Adam		20 September 1955
Gloria	Mdingi
Glossop	Allerley	Artist	1870	1955
Goba	Bani
Gobeni	Mzimkulu
Goddard	Graham	Photographer.	1956
Godfrey	Khumalo
Godfrey	Maku
Godfrey	Marubungwana
Godfrey	Oldjohn
Godi	Themba	Teacher, former Deputy President of PAC, Member of Parliament, founding President of the African Peoples Convention (APC) and Chairperson of SCOPA	10 August 1966
Godola	Samson			August 1989
Godolozi	Qaqawuli	President of PEBCO, member of the UDF, one of the ‘Pebco Three’	26-July-1955	08-May-1985
Godongwana	Nontana
Godwe	Jeffery			18-June-1976
Goeieman	Mittah
Gogela	Maroti
Gokhale	Gopal	Political activist
Goldberg	Denis	A Leading member of Congress of Democrats and political activist who was sentenced with Mandela and others to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Treason Trial. After his release he went into exile in London and returned to SA in 2002	11-April-1933	29 April 2020
Goldberg	Annie	Member if the Commuist Party of South Africa
Goldberg	Victor	A Member of South African Congress of Democrats.
Goldberg	Sam	A member of the SACP and part of the Guardian
Goldberg	Marcel	A member of the South African Congress of Democrats and the Federation of South African Women
Goldblatt	David	Documentary photographer	29 November 1930	25 June 2018
Golding	George	school principal, editor, involved in politics	1906	1967
Goldman	A.
Goldreich	Arthur	Artist, industrial designer, architect, member of MK, political prisoner and lecturer	25-December-1929	24-May-2011
Goldstone	Richard	Former South African Constitutional Court judge.
Goliat	Dandile
Gomas	John	Trade unionist, member of the SACP, NLL and ANC
Gomas	John		08-April-1901
Gomomo	Phumzile	fabour and Politics: A leader of the Labour Movement, an activist and a leader of the ANC and the SACP.	25-October-1945	22-January-2008
Gongo	Michael
Gongo	Matshanda
Gonheng	Frans			09-November-1987
Goniwe	Matthew		27-December-1947	27-June-1985
Goniwe	Jacques
Goniwe	George
Goniwe	Vuyani	Member of the ANC and MK, exiled person, killed in combat.		27 October 1978
Gonxeka	Sidney			28-December-1976
Gonya	Sipho
Gonya	Sipho
Goodfellow	Clement	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.
Goodhope	Moletsane
Goodman	Robert	Painter	1871	1939
Goodman	Modani
Goodwell	Moni
Goodwin	Mda
Gool	Zainunnisa	Leader of the NLL and NEUF, member of the FAC, advocate and representative on the Cape Town City Council.	06-November-1897	01-July-1963
Gool	Goolam	Physician, member of the All African Convention committee, President of the NLL and politician, founder of the anti-CAD and Vice President of the NEUM	24-March-1905	1962
Gool	Jane		19-March-1902	06-May-1996
Gool	Janub	Political activist, founding member of the NEUM and APDUSA
Gopal	Dahya
Gopal	L.
Gordhan	Pravin	Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Party and United Democratic Front, political prisoner, banned, key figure in the ANC underground Operation Vula, NIC/TIC delegate to the steering committee responsible for organising Codesa 1, Co-chairperson of the Transitional Executive Council (1991 – 1994), which prepared the country for the 1994 elections, Chairperson of the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly, Commissioner of South African Revenue Services, Chairperson of the World Customs Organization, ANC Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister	12-April-1949	13 September 2024
Gordimer	Nadine	Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.	20-November-1923	13-July-2014
Gordon	Nkongi
Gordon	Max		1910	1977
Gordon	Hendricks
Gordon	Makgothi
Gordon	Modimowagae
Gordon	Nkongi
Gosschalk	Ruth	Political activist, Member of the Union of Jewish Women, regional secretary of the Federation of South African Women and member of the Communist Party of South Africa.	27-July-1929	11-June-1994
Gosschalk	Bernard	A member of both the South African Congress of Democrats and the South African Communist Party.
Gova	Zwelindaba	SADF raids		09-December-1982
Govender	Ronnie (Sathieseelan)	Teacher, journalist, playwright, novelist, founder of the Shah Theatre Academy, Marketing Manager of the Baxter Theatre, Director of Durban's Playhouse Theatre, recipient of the President's National Award for Theatre, former Vice-President of the Natal Congress of South African Writers (COSAW).	16 May 1934	29 April 2021
Govender	Nithianandan ‘Elvis'	Member of South African Student Organisation, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, community-based organizer, Deputy Director in the Department of Foreign Affairs	1 November 1958	10 November 1995
Govender	Pregaluxmi (Pregs)	Feminist, anti-apartheid activist, human rights activist, trade unionist, author, writer, teacher, initiated the ‘Women’s Budget’, member of Natal Organisation of Women, founding member of SPEAK magazine, former African National Congress member, helped establish first Worker’s College	15 February 1960
Govender	Magasvarie	Anti-apartheid activist, teacher, trade unionist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, United Democratic Front, South African Communist Party, South African Democratic Teachers Union, and Chatsworth Housing Action Committee, involved in the armed struggle
Govers	Harry
Govinder	Soobramoney
Gow	Frances	Clergyman, principal and political activist	29-Sep-1887	20-March-1968
Gow (Adams)	Vera	Opera singer and Social Worker	14-February-1942
Gqabi	Joe	Photographer, reporter, member of the ANC and MK	06-April-1929	31-July-1981
Gqamane	Michael
Gqirana	Mobbs
Gqirana	Mongameli
Gqirana	Violet
Gqoba	William Wellington	Author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagonmaker	August 1840	26 April 1888
Gqobose	Mfanasekaya	Soldier, social research assistant, social worker, location superintendent member of the ANCYL, ANC, POQO and PAC, awarded the Companion of The Order of Luthuli in Silver.	07-August-1917	2013
Gqola	Frederick
Gqola	Frederick
Gqosha	John
Gqosha	Nyawozake
Gqozo	Oupa	Former Ciskei military ruler.	10-March-1952
Gqubule	Simon	Theologian, educationalist, community leader, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Federal Theological Seminary, UDF, and ANC, president of Fedsem, MCSA, vice-president of SACC, banned by apartheid regime, recipient of The Herald GM Citizen of the Year Award, Fort Hare University Honorary Doctorate, Rhodes University Honorary Doctorate, and the Distinguished Old Rhodian Award, SMMS’s First Grand Chancellor, recipient of Government’s National Order for his commitment to the liberation struggle, education and religion	18 February 1928	26 May 2016
Gqweta	Thozamile	Political activist	02-January-1952	2006
Graaff	de Villiers	advocate, farmer and leader of the United Party.	8 December 1913	4 October 1999
Gray	Madi	Anti apartheid activist and ANC member.
Greaves	Constance	Artist	1882	1966
Grendon	Paul	South African Artist, Painter, Activist and Documentary Photographer	1954	7 September 2019
Grendon	Robert		1867	1949
Grendon	Robert
Grey	George	Soldier, High Commissioner of the Cape and Governor of New Zealand	1812	1917
Griffiths	Glynn	Photographer, Cartoonist, Artist, Designer, Sculptor, Polymath	20-March-1950	03-October-2017
Grobbelaar	Arthur
Grootboom	Mpumelelo	Controversial theatre and television playwright	1975
Grootboom	Nati
Grootboom	Matthews
Grootboom	Matthews
Grootboom	Mzwandile
Gross	Sally	Intersex activist, Former clergyman, Political refugee	August 22 1953	February 14 2014
Grossert	John	Artist	1913
Grout	Aldin		2 September 1803	12 February 1894
Groves	Charles	Artist	1878	1964
Gudlandlu	Gladys	frtist	1925	1979
Gudlindlu	Lennox
Gudlulwayo	Kekani		1904	18 September 1962
Guga	Ngalo
Gugushe	Xhosa
Gugushe	Bashi			July 1989
Guibeb	Lazarus
Guiteb	Lazarus
Gule	Petrus			26-August-1976
Guma	Samuel
Guma	Mduduzi
Gumata	Jumba			26-December-1976
Gumbi	Joseph
Gumede	Archibald	Parliamentarian, lawyer and member of the UDF and ANC	01-March-1914	27-June-1998
Gumede	Josiah	Political activist, founder member of the Natal Native Congress and founder member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, now ANC). He was a teacher, politician, businessman and journalist, sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'James' Gu	09-October-1867	06-November-1946
Gumede	G. S. (Smart)	Print maker and sculptor	19-November-1943	2001
Gumede	Sipho	South African jazz bass guitarist	17-April-1952	26-July-2004
Gumede	Zamokwake	Carpenter and sculptor	11-April-1955
Gumede	Constance
Gumede	Masakeni
Gumede	Eric			11 August 1989
Gumede	Elizabeth	Anti-apartheid activist, member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and an operative of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), detained and subjected to insufferable torture, recipient of the Government’s National Order of Mendi for Bravery in Bronze	1921	2016
Gumenge	Wellington
Gunn	Shirley	Member of the ANC and MK, political detainee	09-May-1955
Gunquluza	Hendisini
Gusha	Andile
Gusha	Andile
Gutsche	Thelma	Artist, founding member of the Simon van der Stel Foundation and a trustee and life president of the Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery.	07-January-1915	05-November-1984
Guy	Malamba
Gwabeni	Joel
Gwadana	Fikile
Gwadana	Buchanan
Gwala	Harry	Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.	30 July 1920	20 June 1995
Gwala	Mafika	Poet, Writer, Editor, Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, and Contributor for the Black Review, contributor to Staffrider, Produced two collections of poetry and collaborated on a third with Liz Gunner.	05-October-1946	06- September-2014
Gwamanda	Bongizipho
Gwangwa	Jonas	Jazz Artist, Composer, Musical Director	1941
Gwaru	Ntshiza
Gwebane	Temba
Gwebushe	Raymond		1958	19 August 1987
Gwelani	Thembinkosi	Miner, Worker, Casualty		16 August 2012
Gwentshe	Alcott Skei	President of the Cape ANCYL and the Chair of the ANC in East London, an organiser of the 1950 and 1952 Defiance Campaign, a banned and banished person.	1920	1996
Gwija	Tyagi
Gwintsa	Andile			07-October-1986
Gxashe	Bonisile
Gxavu	Zukile
Gxavu	Ronnie
Gxekani	Mzwandile	Unita Ambushes		13-October-1988
Gxothiwe	Benjamin		1961	25 March 1988
Gxowa (Mashaba)	Bertha	One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.	28-November-1934	19-November-2010
Gyasman	Franklin

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