Biography Index

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Last name	First name	Synopsis	Date of birth	Date of death
Pack	Betty	fellist and music teacher
Padayachee	Swami Nagappen
Padayachie	Roy	Industrial Chemist, early childhood education practioner, Director of the Chatsworth Early Learning Centre, member of the NIC, UDF and ANC. Member of Parliament and Cabinet member, former Minister of Communications and Minister of Public Service and Ad	1 May 1950	4 May 2012
Paddock	Billy	Photographer, Writer, Activist
Padi	Jacob			11/11/85
Padi	Tumi			17 May 1991
Page	Frederick	Artist	1908	1984
Pahad	Goolam	One of the founders of the Nationalist Group of the TIC, principal representative for the TIC in the Western Transvaal . At the same time he organised support for the NEUF in the same area, was a member of the SAIC delegation that m	21-September-1912
Pahad	Aziz	member of the ANC, political prisoner, banned person, exile, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs	25 December 1940	27 September 2023
Pahad	Essop	Essop Goolam Pahad was an anti-apartheid activist who was a member of the ANC and was exiled because of what was called an illegal strike and this was after the banning of the ANC. In exile, he attained a few qualifications, and, in his return, he served under Thabo Mbeki. Under the Presidency, he had political duties such as being responsible for the Office of the Rights of the Child (ORC), Office on the status of Disabled People (OSPD), Office on the Status of Women (OSW), The National Youth Commission and the government Communication and Information System (GCIS)	21 June 1939	6 July 2023
Pakamile	Befile
Pakana	July
Palmer	Mabel	Feminist, lecturer, journalist, trade unionist, founded higher education for Black and Indian students in Natal, awarded an honorary doctorate for her service to education by UNISA	22 May 1876	16 November 1958
Pama	Sisa
Pandeni	John	People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighter, imprisoned on Robben Island, General Secretary of the Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union and Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rehabilitation	30-July-1950	14-March-2008
Pandor	Grace	Educationist, lecturer, Deputy Chief Whip of the ANC and former Minister of Education.	07-December-1953
Pankie	Msobe
Pantese	Komane
Parker	Dawood	Travel agent, Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association, activist against the anti-Coloured Affairs Department and member of the Non-European Unity Movement, librarian, first joint secretary of the New Unity Movement	circa 1936	October 2009
Partridge	Bridget	South African photographer, member of Afrapix collective, musician	1950
Pasonti	Sitafa
Passtoors	Helene	Lecturer, journalist, author, for her contribution to the struggle for liberation, democracy and human rights, and for waging a concerted struggle against racial oppression as an ANC activist and operative in South Africa, including engagement in under	09-August-1942
Patel	Ahmed Ebrahim	Key organiser of the Transvaal Indian Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous hearings of the Group Areas Board.	Ahmed Ebrahim Patel 1924
Patel	M.
Patel	K.
Pather	V. S. C.		1887	1942
Pather	Poonoosamy Ruthnam	Secretary of the Aryan Young Men's Progressive Association and the Hindu-Tamil Institute, served on the Durban Indian Child Welfare Society and the Natal Indian Council for Child Welfare, joint secretary of the NIC, foundig member of the Colo	1895	27 January 1970
Pather	V.
Pather	S.
Pato	Henry	Minor, Worker, Casualty		16 August 2012
Paton	Alan	Renowned author of Cry, the Beloved Country, founding member and leader of the Liberal Party	11-January-1903	12-April-1988
Patrick	Petrus			16.6.76
Patrick	Gaba
Patrick	Lekota
Patrick	Madalane
Patrick	Mbelekana
Patrick	Nkosi
Patrick	Pule
Paul	Plaatjies	Delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, trade unionist, SACTU member, banned political activist and 1956 Treason trialist	01-June-1930
Paul	Langa
Paul	Mathabathe
Paul	Ramakandi
Paulse	Abrhim			9.9.76
Paulson	Ngcobo
Paulus	Lekhula
Payi	Clarence			9 September 1986
Payi	Clarence			10-September-1986
Payi	Phillip
Payi	Mthuthuzali			July 1988
Payne	Malcolm	Artist	03-September-1946
Payne	Tracy	South African painter and teacher.	1965
Peake	George Edward	Founding member and national chairman of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, served in the navy in World War II, active member of the Building Workers' Union, defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial, banned in 1955.	1922
Pearson	Carina	A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)
Peddie	Zitha
Peers	Charles Ernest		1874	1874
Peirson	Lorna	Artist	1920
Pelem	Meshach	Teacher, businessman, one of the four vice-presidents of the African National Congress at its founding, founded the Bantu Union	1859	1936
Pelser	Eric
Pemba	Milwa Mnyaluza	Artist, teacher and playwright	02- April -1912	12-July-2001
Pendla	Frank A.	Court interpreter, a postmaster, a clerk, and a restaurant proprietor. President of the Cape African Congress
Penrose	Ndwandwa
Penstone	Constance		1864
Percival	Mgobhozi
Peregrino	Francis	journalist, public intellectual, activist	1851	19 November 1919
Perez	Berney	Documentary Photographer	1948
Perumal	David	Member of the Natal Indian Youth Congress, Natal Indian Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, exile, medical doctor
Peter	Myron	Anti-Apartheid activist, UDF activist, progressive media and cultural activist, documentary photographer, member of photo agency Afrapix, member of progressive NGOs (1970s-1980s)
Peter	Njokwana
Peter	Dayoni
Peter	King
Peter	Ndaba
Peter	Ngwenya
Peter	Njokwana
Peter	Ramashoane
Peter	Ramekwa
Peter	Sokopo
Peterose	Makae
Peters	Anne	fember of the ANC women’s struggle.		1 March 2007
Petersen	Sydney Vernon
Peterson	Michael
Petrie	Anne (Helen)	fouth African Painter.	1933
Petrus	Kwedi
Petrus	Mahlala
Petrus	Malindi
Petrus	Matsau
Petrus	Mbonele
Petrus	Nhabaleng
Petrus	Pilusa
Petrus	Sebeko
Petse	Nokali		1923	23 February 1965
Petukile	Mlambi
Phaahla	Mathume	Member of SASO, BPC, AZASO and the ANC, medical doctor, Secretary of the UDF (KZN), Former Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform and present Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture in South Africa	11-July-1957
Phahlamohlaka	Stanley
Phahle	Cecil	Member of ANC, banished, killed in SADF raid in Gabarone.		14-June-1985
Phahle	Lindie
Phakani	Boykie
Phake	Nicodemus
Phako	Mary
Phala	George
Phala	Andrew
Phalane	Patrick
Phalatsi	Irene			03.03.77
Phantsi	Thembinkosi
Pharasi	Israel
Pheko	Motsoko	President of the PAC, Member of Parliament, lawyer, author, historian, theologian and academic.	13-November-1933
Phenias	Lebekoi
Pheto	Molefe	Molefe Pheto is a South African musician and music teacher. He was an activist in the Black Consciousness Movement and former political prisoner.
Pheto	Pule	Pule Pheto is a jazz pianist and composer who is known for his songwriting and improvised jazz performances.	1966
Phiilip	Ngwena
Phike	Lizzie		25 September 1938
Phila	Nkayi
Philemon	Buti
Phillip	Chiloane			1979
Phillip	Mathews
Phillip	Ngwenya
Phillip	Nyongwana
Phillip	Sejake
Phillip	Sello
Phillipot	Mfeketho
Phillips	James	Member of the ANC and SACP, Chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, Treasurer of the Transvaal affiliate of the African People's Organisation, co-founder of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, singer and ANC Choirmaster	11 December 1919	22 October 1987
Phillips	Ray E.	Missionary
Phinda	Samual
Phindile	Jekega
Phiri	Raymond	Musician, awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for his excellent achievement in the field of music and his contribution to the struggle against apartheid	23 March 1947	12 July 2017
Phiri	Joseph
Phiri	Jacob			28.6.76
Phiri	Terrance
Phokanaka	Lawrence
Phokanoka	Madimetja	Political activist, member of the African Students Association, the South African Communist Party, African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe.	10 June 1938	July 2005
Phooko	H.
Phosa	Moses
Phosa	Mathews	Lawyer, ANC member, MK commander, member of the ANC negotiating team at CODESA, Premier of Mpumalanga and Treasurer General of the ANC.	1 September 1952
Phoshoko	Joel			01-April-1986
Phoswa	Mxibilo			March 1993
Phumulani	Shezi
Phunga	Kid
Phungula	Dumisani	Graphic Artist	1960
Phungulwa	Zenzile
Phuso	Godfrey			19 Sept. 1985
Phuteho	John			21-March-1960
Phutuhile	Dlabati
Pienaar	Francois	Former rugby player who captained and played flanker for the South African Springboks national rugby team	01-January-1967
Pierneef	Jacob	South African fine artist	13-August-1886	14-November-1957
Piet	Christopher			03-March-1986
Piet	Sekonyela
Pietersen	Glen			13.9.76
Pietersen	Norman	Norman Pietersen was an uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla. On 11 March, 1987 he was murdered by apartheid Riot Squad in New Crossroads after his return from military training in Bulgaria. He was 22 years old at the time of his death.	1966	11 March 1987
Pieterson	Hector	Student Activist, one of the first students to be killed in the 1976 student rebellion in Soweto, Johannesburg	1963	16 June 1976
Pieterson	Joseph
Pikani	Mngqingo	banished person
Pilane	Alex			June 1985
Pilapi	Khatazekile			08-May-1963
Pilapi	Khathazekile		1935	7 February 1963
Piliso-Seroke	Joyce	National Secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, member and Vice President of the Executive Committee of the World YWCA, member of the Transvaal Board of the National Co-ordinating Council for Returnees, member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Chairperson of the Commission on Gender Equality, member of the Board of READ Educational Trust and of the Women’s Development Foundation, Recipient of the Father Trevor Huddleston Award and the President’s National Award, political prisoner, film maker	11 July 1933
Pilkington	George William		1879	1958
Pilkington	Henry L. Gordon		1886	1968
Pillay	Thayanayagie (Thailema)	Political activist, political prisoner, organised women resisters from the Asiatic Bazaar for the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign, volunteered and marched in the Germiston batch led by Patrick Duncan in the 1952 Defiance Campaign agains	15-August-1908	19-December-1992
Pillay	N. S.	Participated in the Indian miners’ strike of 1913, political prisoner
Pillay	Siva	Member of the initial uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, exile
Pillay	Navanethem (Navi)	Attorney, university lecturer, first woman to open her own law practice in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), first Black woman judge in the High Court in Natal, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, member of the Women's National Coalition in South Africa, co-founded Equality Now, an international women's rights organisation	23-September-1941
Pillay	Mannie V. S.		1918
Pillay	V.
Pillay	R.
Pillay	Mrs. N.	Participated in the Indian miners’ strike of 1913, political prisoner.
Pillay	Narainsamy	political prisoner
Pillay	Sumboornam	Anti-apartheid activist, gender activist, member of the BCM, SASO, TECON, WIASA, and PETT, banned and house-arrested for five years, author, teacher	1948 (or 1949)
Pillay	Rajaluxmi Rajes	exile, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe	4 August 1944	29 December 2020
Pilusa	Johannes			December 1993
Pincus	E.
Pindela	Nelson			26.12.76
Pindiso	Zimambane
Pindiwe	Steven
Pinki				11-November-1988
Pinkie				16-November-1986
Piruus	Giyose
Pitiyase	Nowewe
Pitje	Godfrey	Lecturer in anthropology at Fort Hare,University, President of the ANC Youth League.	20-July-1917	23-April-1997
Pitso	James
Pitso	Sello
Pitso	Robert			31.12.76
Pitso	D
Plaatje	Solomon	Teacher, court interpreter and clerk to the Mafeking administrator of Native Affairs, author, journalist, linguist, and first Secretary-General of the SANNC, member of the SANNC deputation that travelled to London to appeal to the British Goverment	9 October 1876	19 June 1932
Plaatjie	Maxwell
Plaut	Martin	Student activist, British Labour Party adviser on Africa and the Middle East and served on the executive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement as a representative of the Labour Party, Secretary of the Africa Committee of the Labour Party, Associate Fellow of	May 1950
Player	Gary Jim	South African Professional golfer.	1 November 1935
Pocock	Mary	President of the Grahamstown branch of the South African Association of University Women	31-December-1886	10-July-1977
Podbrey	Pauline	member of the Communist Party of South Africa, Communist Youth League, Labour League of Youth, Left Book Club, and Liberal Study Group, secretary of the African Commercial Distributive Workers Union in Durban, local secretary and national president of the Sweet Workers Union, secretary of the Industrial Council, trade unionist.	1922	2009
Podbrey (Podbrez)	Pauline	Member of the CPSA, Secretary of the African Commercial Distributive Worker’s Union, author of White Girl in Search of the Party
Podlashuc	Marianne
Pogrund	Benjamin	A membe rof the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).
Pokela	John	Political activist and Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).	1922	1985
Polak	Henry Solomon Leon
Pollock	Shaun	International cricket player	16-July-1973
Pollock	Graeme	One of South Africa’s most iconic cricketers and batsmen.	27-February-1944
Polokela	Matsela
Poni	Zama
Ponnen	George	Trade unionist, early member of SACTU, member of the CPSA and was the chair of the Durban District Committee from 1940 to 1944 and was the Party’s full time Organiser, a member of the Central Committee until the CPSA was disbanded	1 June 1913	January 1996
Ponnen	Vera	Member of the Housewives League and the South African Federation of Democratic Women, co-founder of the Non-European Soldiers’ Dependent League during WWII, executive member of the Congress of Democrats, secretary of the Brewery and Mineral Workers Union.	1915	01-March-1979
Ponnusamy	Dr Somalingum (Leslie)	Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, veterinarian, worked on the African National Congress farm in Zambia,Specialist Cardiologist, Head of the Clinical Unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Department of Cardiology at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital, member of the College of Medicine of South Africa, lecturer, actively involved in community, religious and cultural affairs	1 September 1958	February 2021
Poo	Jacob	Joined the ANC and was active in campaigns and on the residents' Vigilance Committee in Moroka. ANC treasurer in Moroka.	1914
Poo	Mike
Pooe	Johannes			26.12.76
Pooe	Michael			26.12.76
Poonan	Vera	A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA).
Portway	Douglas	frtist
Poshoko	Joel			01-April-1986
Potgieter	Andries	Voortrekker leader.	19- December-1792	16-December-1852
Potjo	Molala
Poto	Victor	Transkeian Chief	1897	1974
Potsane	Griffiths
Potse	Jemina			21-March-1960
Powell	Baden	Knighted by King Edward VII for his outstanding military career and for founding Scouting. His book 'Aids to Scouting', about his methods of Army training, became the bases of Scouting in South Africa.	22 February 1857	1941
Powell	Jean	Applied Design
Prager NCL	Fred	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
Pratt	David		1 October 1909	October 1961
Preller	Gustav	Author	04-October-1875	07-October-1943
Preller	Alexis		1911	1975
Press	Ronald	Chemical engineer, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)	1929	28 October 2009
Preston	Billy
Pretorious	Paul	Member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
Pretorius	Marthinus Wessel	Boer statesman and soldier	17 September 1819	19 May 1901
Pretorius	Andries	Voortrekker leader after whom Pretoria was named.	27 November 1798	23 July 1853
Price	Ndabane
Prince	Moses
Prince	Msuthu
Prowse	Ethel Ruth	Ruth Prowse was a visual artist, curator and advocate for the preservation of Historical buildings.	1883	1967
Pukwana	Mtutuzeli	Pianist, Saxophonist and Composer.	18-July-1938	30-June-1990
Pule	James
Pule	Saskin
Pule	Steve
Pumelang	Leholo
Pumele	Sikawuli
Pumlani	Ngqungwana
Pungulwa	Sipho			13 June 1990
Puthumile	Gqamana

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