Biography Index

(6) | ( (1) | A (200) | B (433) | C (287) | D (409) | E (97) | F (158) | G (289) | H (254) | I (32) | J (241) | K (398) | L (261) | M (2111) | N (547) | O (36) | P (236) | Q (13) | R (149) | S (582) | T (290) | U (7) | V (103) | W (128) | X (23) | Y (19) | Z (103)

Last name	First name	Synopsis	Date of birth	Date of death
Oberholzer	Obie	Photographer	26-August-1947
Obodiah	Cetyiwe
October	Ronald			16.9.76
Oerder	Frans David		1867	1944
Oewies-Shongwe	Maggie	Founder of the DWA, played an instrumental role in convincing the Department of Education to open Model C schools to all races	1940
Oeyi	Geyana
of Goring-haiqua	Doman	Trained interpreter and Khoisan leader in the mid 1600s. He led the Khoikhoi in the first Khoikhoi-Dutch war.	Unknown	December 1663
of the Goringhaicona	Krotoa	A Khoi woman who worked as a domestic servant in the Van Riebeeck house and a translator for the Dutch authorities. Her marriage was the first recorded union between a ‘native’ and a ‘settler’. She was banished to Robben Island	Circa 1643	29-July-1674
Oganne	Aaron
Olb	Winnie
Oldridge	Matibe
Olifant	Benji			15-Decemeber-1986
Oliphant	William			14 April 1986
Oliphant	Welile			27 August 1992
Oliphant	Andries
Oliphant	Molefi	For his excellent contribution to the development of soccer in South Africa and leadership in the successful bid and hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Molefi Oliphant was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold	6 March 1952
Oliphant	David
Oliphant	Vincent	Poet	08- April-1954
Oliver	Nomeva
Olivier	Christophel			11.9.76
Omar	Dullah	Anti-apartheid activist, human rights lawyer, member of the Unity Movement, Western Cape UDF Chairman, political detainee, member of the ANC and Cabinet Minister of Justice and Transport and the democratic South Africa.	26 May 1934	13 March 2004
Omotoso	Bankole (Kole)	Lecturer, novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor	21 April 1943	19 July 2023
Ondala	Irvin
Oppenheimer	Ernest	Diamond, gold mining and financial entrepreneur, and founder of the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa.	22 May 1880
Opperman	John			9.9.76
Ora	Nxiweni
Origen	Ngxhwana
Orr	Wendy	A medical Doctor
Osborne	Mthunywa
Oupa	Ncube
Oupa	Mbate
Owen	Gwadana
O’Connor	Patrick	Painter	1940
O’Malley	John	Journalist	6 October 1922	15 June 2005
O’Meare	Dan	An economist
O’Regan	Kate		17-September-1957

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