Biography Index

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Last name	First name	Synopsis	Date of birth	Date of death
ka Senzangakhona	Dingane	King of the Zulus (1828 – 1840)	1795	February 1840
ka Shezi	Mthuli	Playwright and political activist	1947	1972
Kaba	Stanley
Kabane	Milner Langa	Political activist		1945
Kabe	Elliot			21-March-1960
kaBhekuzulu	Goodwill	King of the Zulus	14 July 1948	12 March 2021
Kabi	Elliot			21-March-1960
Kabila	Laurent	Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo	27 November 1939	16 Jan 2001
Kabiqeya	Samuel
Kadalie	Clements	Founder of the ICU and National secretary. Trade Unionist and Political Activist.	1896	28-November-1951
Kader	Hassim
Kadhikwa	Rudolf
Kadhikwa	Rudolf
kaHintsa	Sarhili	King of Xhosaland	1815	1892
Kahla	James
Kahlu	Mzwandile
Kahn	Sam	Lawyer, trade unionist, organiser for the NLL, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), and a Native Representative in Parliament.	1911
Kahn	Mauric		1943
Kahn	Pauline	A member of The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Young Communist League (YCL)
Kaifas	Mkize
Kaijafas	Makhole
Kajee	Abdulla	Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC	1896	1948
Kajee	Amien
Kalake	Everit
Kalako	Mziwamadoda
Kaleb	Matshabe
Kalipa	Enoch
Kalipa	Nqabisile
Kalk	Willie
Kallenbach	Hermann	Political activist
Kallichurum	Soromini	first women professor and Head of Department at then Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal) medical school, first women Dean of Natal University’s medical faculty and first woman President of the Health Professional Council of Sou	1932	21-December-2002
Kamaldien	Yazeed	Photographer
Kamase	Richard
Kamati	Petrus
Kambule	Thamsanqa	Teacher and professor of mathematics.	15 January 1921	7 August 2009
Kambule	Eliakim
Kambule	Simeon
Kame	William
Kamfer	Christiaan			07-September-1976
Kamteni	Nontente
Kana	Samson
Kani	Bonisile	Director, actor and playwright	30 August 1943
Kani	Sicelo
Kantor	James	Lawyer, political prisoner, Rivonia Trialist and exile	26-February-1927	02-February-1974
Kantyo	Sidwell
Kanyi	Mbongeni
Kanynele	Matias
Kanyuele	Matias
Kapola	Andjenga
Kapolo	Angebo
Kaptain	Sonwabo
Karabo	Freda
Karel	Manaka
Kariem	Ashraf
Karim	Moulvi
Karis	Thomas
kaSenzangakhona	Mpande	Made King of the Zulu’s once he defeated Dingane with the help of the Voortrekkers. He reigned as King from 1840 to 1872 and was succeeded by Cetshwayo.	1798	19 November 1872*
Kashea	Joseph
Kasi	Kolisile
Kasrils	Ronald (Ronnie)	Member of the African National Congress (ANC); Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and secretary of the Congress of Democrats in the early 1960s. Kasrils was involved in MK military operations, and served as Deputy Minister of Defence (1994 -1999). Kasrils was also	15-November-1938
Kasrils	Jeanette Eleanor	ANC, Congress of Democrats, SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe member, geologist	09-March-1936	08-November-2009
Kathrada	Ahmed	A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialist, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island and Pollsmoor Maximum Prison, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Member of Parliament.	21-August-1929	28-March-2017
Kati	James
Kati	James
kaTshunungwa	Thembekile Enoch	Business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist	1923
Katz	Freda	A member of the African National Congress (ANC) and The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
Kaunda	Kenneth	Teacher and first President of an independent Zambia Awarded Doctorate from UKZN passed away on the 17th of June 2021	28 April 1924	17 June 2021
Kausob	Kausobson	chief of a group of San
Kawulezile	Konzapi
Kay	Dorothy Moss	Artist	1886	1964
Kay	Joan
Kaye	Nell	Artist	1912	1969
Kayingo	Ndondomzi
Kayo	James
Kazi	Dr.
Keagile	Lilian
Keagile	Lilian
Kearney	Gerald	Teacher, author, director of Diakonia, political detainee, Executive member of the Natal UDF, Chair of the Denis Hurley Centre Trust, chair of the Gandhi Development Trust, and advisor to KZN Christian Council	28-August-1942	23-November-2018
Kebeta	Benyani
Kedibane	Mathabe
Keegan	Clive
Keet	Raynier Frederick Martin
Kefa	Nqonqo
Kefile	Gaveni
Keith	Bitjane
Keitsing	Ntwaesele "Fish"	Trade unionist, African National Congress (ANC) activist and 1956 Treason Trial defendant and politician	1919	28-March-2005
Kekana	Johannes Jane Tane	Chief	1840	1887
Kekana	Dime
Kekana	Nick
Kekana	Job	sculptor, teacher	01-January-1916
Kekana	Oliver			11/11/86
Kekane	Andries			31-December-1976
Kekane	Shadrack			26-December-1976
Keke	Zolile		31-October-1945	06-February-2013
Keke	Steven
Keke	Mawela
Kelly	Mzolisi
Kemp	Stephanie	Member of the African Resistance Movement, ANC and SACP.	June 1941	10 March 2023
Kendall	Franklin	Artist	02-January-1869	20-November-1948
Kenese	Dayimani
Kenke	William
Kenneth	Khambule
Kenneth	Malatsi
Kente	Gibson		1933	8 November 2004
Kentidge	Ncamani
Kentridge	William	South African artist, film-maker, and performer	28-April-1955
Kentridge	Sydney	World War II soldier, Advocate, Queens Counsel, British Knighthood Recipient and Recipient of the South African Order of the Baobab in Gold	1922
Kenyatta	Jomo	President of Kenya and prominent independence leader
Keokame	Marshall			16-June-1976
Kepe	Lungile	Political activist	1927
Keraan	Sulaiman
Kers	Johannes		12 March 1962
Kerzner	Solomon	Chartered accountant, Entrepreneur, Property developer, Resort operator and Founder of the Sun City.	23 August 1935
Kesupile	Galdys
Ketani	Christopher
Ketani	Stanley
Ketani	Christopher
Ketelo	Thamsanqa
Kettledas	Mkhuseli	Member of the PAC, Robben Island prisoner
Ketye	Duke	Artist	06-June-1943	13-July-2002
Ketye	Mlandeni
Ketyi	Siphiwo
Ketyi	Siphiwo
Kewpie	Kewpie	Hairdresser, drag queen, District Six cultural icon	1942	2012
Keye	Jefferey
Kgampe	Philemon			26-December-1976
Kganyago	Lesetja	member of the African National Congress, accountant and economist	7 October 1965
Kgapule	Edward			26-December-1977
Kgasi	Nicolaas
Kgasi	Nicolaas
Kgaswane	Gideon
Kgate	Sydney
Kgejane	Andries
Kgoadi	Gustov			26-December-1976
Kgoathe	Nicodemus			04-February-1969
Kgoathe	Nicodemus			04-February-1969
Kgobe	Jacob
Kgobe	Alexander	Banished person.
Kgokong	Linda			31-December-1976
Kgokong	Masatladi
Kgokong	Mpotseng
Kgomo	Reggie			100189
Kgope	Thomas	Artist	10-April-1954	2007
Kgori	Bennedict
Kgosana	Philip	Political activist, regional secretary of PAC	1936	19-April-2017
Kgositsile	Keorapetse	Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress	19 September 1938	3 January 2018
Kgozi	Benedict
Kgupisi	Herbert			26-December-1976
Kgwadi	Paulos			11-November-1985
Kgware	Winnie	Teacher, President of the Black Peoples Convention, recipient of The Order of Luthuli in Silver 2003	27-October-1917	1998
Kgwete	Willie	Banished person		2 August 1971
Kgwete	Mack	Banished person		2 August 1971
Khabe	Christina			12 April 1992
Khabele	Jantjie
Khabincha	Aaron
Khabinde	Andries
Khabinde	Andries
Khaile	Eddie J.	Trade unionist, member of the ICU, SACP and Secretary General the ANC
Khaje	Sydney			26-December-1976
Khakhaza	Monde
Khala	Michael
Khala	Michael
Khalekele	Malana
Khalima	Maritsane
Khama	Seretse	Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana).	1 July 1921	13 July 1980
Khambule	Godfrey			24-August-1976
Khambule	Themba			11-November-1982
Khambule	Mphiksa
Khambule	Themba			11/11/82
Khame	Mzayifani
Khame	Mzimkulu
Khan	Shafa´at Ahmad	Editor, Politician, Professor of Economics, Indian High Commissioner of India to South Africa from 1941 to 1944	1893	1947
Khan	Naziem			16-September-1976
Khan	Sam
Khana	Bonakele			21 February 1917
Khanyi	Mbongeni
Khanyile	James			22 December 1991
Khanyile	Elson
Khanyile	William	Member of the ANC and SACP, SACTU activist and killed in the Matola Raid		30 January 1981
Khasi	Moses			11-November-1986
Khatsala	Armstrong
Khaya	Major
Khayingo	Wilson		1926	5 November 1964
Khayingo	Wilton
Khayiyana	Victor			31-July-1985
Khayiyane	Sipho
Khehla	Luvuyo			07-September-1986
Khehla	Shubane
Khethwa	Elias
Khiba	Vusimusi
Khiba	Vusimusi
Khoapa	Ben	Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, Director of Study Project on Christianity in an Apartheid Society (SPROCAS) and Vice Chancellor of Technikon Natal as well as Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Durban Institute of Technology
Khoapa	Bennie		1937
Kholisile	Roxo
Khonongwe	Patrick
Khosi	David
Khota	Ahmed	Businessman, MK member and TIC activist.	5 July 1928	17 June 2009
Khota	Stevens
Khotso	Seathlolo
Khowa	Sikhumbuzo
Khoza	Joyce	Sculptor and print-maker	1945
Khoza	Thembinkosi Samson	Political Activist Democracy.	17 May 1959
Khoza	Irvin	Chairperson of the South African Premier Soccer League Team, Orlando Pirates Football Club, Chairperson of the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) and a former Vice-President of the South African Football Association (SAFA). He was also the Chair	27 January 1948
Khoza	Amos			01-December-1988
Khoza	John			31-December-1976
Khoza	James
Khoza	Aron
Khoza	Joseph
Khoza	Aaron			26-March-1977
Khoza	Banda
Khoza	Phillip
Khubeka	Hilton			17-June-1976
Khubeka	Robert			26-December-1976
Khubeka	Zabulon			22-August-1976
Khuboni	Simon
Khumalo	Jerry	ANC member and political activist	1922	31 December 1976
Khumalo	Alfred	Journalist and photographer for Drum magazine	5 September 1930	21 October 2012
Khumalo	Leleti	South African actress best known for her leading roles in the feature films Sarafina! (1992) and Yesterday (2004)	30-March-1970
Khumalo	Columbus			26-December-1976
Khumalo	Daniel			19-June-1976
Khumalo	Themba
Khumalo	Christopher
Khumalo	Eddie
Khumalo	Mzilikazi
Khumalo	Themba
Khumalo	Charles
Khumalo	Patrick
Khumalo	Theophilus	Footballer, captain of the national South African soccer team and football coach.	26 June 1967
Khumalo	Florence
Khumalo	Philip
Khumalo	Vikeliswe
Khumalo	Themba
Khumalo	Charles
Khumalo	Patrick
Khumalo	Bongani			13 Sept. 1984
Khumalo	Caswell
Khumalo	James	Composer, linguist, teacher, professor, helped create the new South African national anthem, produced first opera by a Black South African, pioneered the innovative system of dual notation, recipient of the Order of the Star of South Africa	20 June 1932	22 June 2021
Khunyeli	Sefofane Samuel		18-September-1928	April-1993
Khuzwayo	Nnoseng	Writer, women's rights campaigner, ANC member and politician	29-June-1914	19-April-2006
Khuzwayo	Linda			11-November-1984
Khuzwayo	Dingane
Khuzwayo	Irvin
Khuzwayo	Sibusiso
Khuzwayo	Emmanuel			March 1988
Khuzwayo	Msayineke		1937	9 May 1961
Khuzwayo	Sipo		1944	15 March 1964
Kibel	Wolf	Immigrant painter who is partly responsible for introducing expressionist oil painting to South African artists	16-December-1903	29-June-1938
Kies	Benjamin	Teacher, political activist, advocate and founder of the NEUM and member of the TLSA.	12-December-1917	19-December-1979
Kies	Helen	Member of the NEUM and TLSA, Editor of the Educational Journal, teacher political activist, political detainee, member of the Harold Cressy Alumni Society.	c.1926	2017 - 01- 13
Kikia	Cassim
Kikile	Qithi
King	Peter
King jr	Martin Luther	Civil rights activist in the United States of America	1929 -1968	1968
Kingdom	Mphahlele
Kingsley	Nokeke
Kirchhoff	Chris	Photographer	1962
Kirkwood	Fion	Artist	08-April-1949
Kirkwood	Mike
Kisten	Moonsamy
Kistnasamy	Gurunathen	SASO Vice-president for Cultural Affairs, teacher, psychologist, newspaper columnist	28 December 1947
Kitchener	A.	1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, also called Viscount Broome of Broome, Baron Denton of Denton, Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and of Aspall (from 1898), and Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, of the Vaal, and of Aspall (from 1902), British field marshal, imperial administrator, commander in chief during the South African War, Secretary of State for War during World War I	24 June 1850	5 June 1916
Kiti	Fikile
Kitson	Ian	Mechanical engineer, member of the SACP and the MK High Command	25-August-1919	09-November-2010
Kitson	Norma	Member of Congress of Democrats and British Communist Party, member of the technical unit of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and founder of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.	18-August-1933	12-June-2002
Kiva	Vumisile
Kiviti	Mxolisi
Klaas	Sigodwana
Klaas	Jan
Klaas	Ngeno
Klaasen	Thandi	Musician	27-September-1931	15-January-2017
Klaassen	David
Kleinbooi	Ngcongolo
Kleinschmidt	Horst Gerhard Hermann	Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South African Christian Institute. He was detained under apartheid laws an	17 October 1945
Kleinschmidt	Amgeline			08-September-1976
Kleya	Hobo
Kloppenburg	Theodore
Klugman	Barbara
Knight	Rudolf
Knight	James
Knowledge	Motaung
Koabitsa	Maape
Koalana	Doctor			26-December-1976
Koalana	Willy			26-December-1976
Kobe	Andile			20-March-1988
Kobedi	Kabelo			25-June-1976
Kobo	William
Koboka	Welcome	artist, teacher	1941	1997
Koboka	Baden		1935	30 May 1967
Kobole	Euginia
Kobus	C. M	Attorney, teacher and founding member of the NEUM	1927
Kodesh	Wolfie	Political activist, journalist, member of the SACP and ANC and banned person	06-April-1918	18- October-2002
Kodisang	Jerome
Koenig	Dezso	Sculptor	1902	1972
Kohler	Charles	Founder of the Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of SA, or (KWV)	14 October 1862	6 February 1952
Kok	Susanna	Medical doctor and surgeon who pioneered techniques of diagnosing suspected leprosy, worked with leprosy patients in various parts of Africa and did much to dispel myths associated with the spread of the disease	04-July-1911	04-November-1985
Koka	Kalushi	Member of the Liberal Party, founder member of the Black Consciousness Movement and the Black Peoples’ Convention, Honorary president of Socialist Party of Azania trade unionist, teacher, Roman Catholic layman.	09-June-1927	20-December-2005
Koka	Kgalushe
Kolisi	Sipho
Kolisi	Siyamthanda	South African rugby union player, DHL Stormers and Springbok captain.	16 June 1991
Kolisile	Kasi
Kolisile	Willem
Koloane	David	South African painter, art teacher, critic and curator whose work explores apartheid	05-June-1938
Kolobi	Herman
Kolonga	David			31-December-1976
Kolovsohn		A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)
Komane	Bonisile			03-March-1986
Komane	Bennet
Komani	Brian			26.12.76
Komani	James
Komanisi	Edmund
Komape	Linda	Trade unionist and women’s rights activist	1949
Komnick	Günther	Farm hand, lithographer, graphic artist, photographer, author and Associate of the Royal Photographic Society	1929
Kompe	Lydia	Trade unionist, women organiser and Member of Parliament	1935
Komsana	James
Komsana	Clippard
Kona	Michael
Kona	Michael
Kondile	Bolente
Kondile	Sizwe			October 1981
Kondile	Gcinisizwe		6 October 1957	October 1981
Kondlo	Ncumisa	Human rights and gender activist, member of the African National Congress and deputy chairperson and a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, MEC for Welfare in the Eastern Cape member of the National Executive Committee	27-March-1958	24-March-2008
Kondoti	Malcomess	Member of the ANC and commander of the MK in the Border Region of the Eastern Cape.	1924	1999
Kone	Mbengeni			11-November-1986
Konile	Zabonke			03-March-1986
Konings	Paul	Photographer and graphic artist	1958
Konqobe	Percy	sculptor, sangoma	1939
Konzapi	Kawulezile
Kooae	Maretile	Banished person
Kopane	Isaac
Kopase	Malose
Korasie	Ndosi
Korjas	Peter
Korotsoane	Tatlheho			05-August-1984
Kotane	Moses	General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress	09-August-1905	19-May-1978
Koti	Ignatius
Koti	Ignatius
Kotkin	Annie	A fundraiser for Inkululo and the Guardian.
Kottler	Moses	Sculptor	1892/6	08-March-1977
Kotu	Collin
Kotze	Theo	Reverend, banned person, lecturer, Regional Director of the Christian Institute, Recipient of the Grand Counsellor of The Order of the Baobab in Silver for his excellent contribution to the struggle against the injustices of the Apartheid system	19-May-1920	2003
Koza	Daniel	Political activist	1912	1964
Kozi	Hoshe
Kraai	Hamilton	Political activist and ANC member
Krenya	Mantyi
Kriegler	Johann	Advocate, academic, judge of the Appellate Division and the Constitutional Court, Chair of the Electoral Commission and the Independent Electoral Commission.	29-November-1932
Kriel	Ashley	Apartheid activist, Umkhonto we Sizwe operative	17-October-1966	09-July-1987
Krige	Mattheus	Major literary figure, author, poet and dramatist, war correspondent in WWII and anti-government activist	4 February 1910	10 August 1987
Krisjan	Charlie
Krog	Antje	Journalist and poet	23 October 1952
Kruger	Stephanus	Voortrekker, politician, President of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) from, prominent social and political figure, key figure in conservation efforts and the establishment of the Kruger National Park.	10 October 1825	14 July 1904
Kruiper	Dawid
Krunou	Elias
Krunou	Elias
Kube	Peter
Kubeka	Johannes			16-June-1976
Kubeka	Felix
Kubeka	Sipho
Kubheka	Thulisile			07-November-1991
Kubheka	Sibongile
Kuboni	Gabriel	Sculptor	1940	1984
Kuboni	Julius	Sculptor	1964	2000
Kuboni	Mvuleni
Kuena	Paul
Kuena	Paul	Banished person
Kula	Nqutyana
Kulile	Mphahlaza
Kumalo	Alfred	Artist	4 January 1879	09-December- 1966
Kumalo	Sydney	Artist	13-April-1935	11-February-1988
Kumalo	Basetsana	Former Miss South Africa, television personality, fashion icon, media mogul, business woman, philanthropist and wife to businessman Romeo Kumalo.	29-March-1974
Kumalo	Sydney	Sidney Kumalo was an art instructor, sculptor and painter.	1935	1988
Kumalo	Dumisani	reporter, founder member of the Union of Black Journalists in South Africa, exiled person, lecturer, International Education Program Coordinator at Phelps Stokes Fund in New York, Projects Director for the Africa Fund and the American Committee on Africa, Director of the United States Desk at South Africa’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations	16-September-1947	20-January-2019
Kumalo	Zolile
Kumalo	Joseph
Kumalo	Phukwane
Kumalo	Joseph (Anti-Pass) M.
Kunene	Mazisi	Poet, academic and founder of the and-apartheid movement in Britain.	12-May-1930	11-August-2006
Kunene	Edward			18-June-1976
Kunene	Norman			17-June-1976
Kunene	Daniel	Acclaimed linguist, scholar, award winning writer of short stories and poetry, human rights activist and community leader.	13-April-1923	27-May-2016
Kunene	Bonginkosi
Kunene	Jeremiah
Kuny	Hillary
Kuny	Denis
Kupe	Fosi
Kushlick	Taubie	South African actress and producer	7-May-1911	13-March-1991
Kutaza	Mqopi
Kutumela	Lucky			05-April-1986
Kutwana	Abraham
Kuzwayo	Judson		25-August-1941	May-1985
Kuzwayo	Fezekile	Daughter, activist and poet	17-September-1974	08-October-2016
Kuzwayo	Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse	Businessman, journalist and founding member of the African Democratic Party	1909	1965
Kwadi	Gunston			26-August-1976
Kwame	Kwame	President of Ghana (1957 - 1966)	21 September 1909	27 April 1972
Kwantuy	Magunyana
Kwape	Mantwa			11-November-1987
Kwedi	Mkhalipi
Kweyi	John
Kwinana	Gregory			17-June-1976

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