Biography Index

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Last name	First name	Synopsis	Date of birth	Date of death
Taaka	Louis			26-December-1976
Tabakin	Rita	Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)
Tabakin	Morris	A businessman
Tabalaza	Michael			13-December-1976
Tabalaza	Lungile			10-July-1978
Tabane	Job	Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and member of the ANC NEC	6 December 1942	9 July 1987
Tabata	Isaac	Founder and leading theoretician of the Non-European Unity Movement	1909
Tabner	Mgedezi
Tafeni	Milton
Talakumeni	China			11-November-1987
Talazo	Selwyn			26.12.76
Tamana	Dora	Member of SACP, National Secretary of FSAW, member of the ANC Women’s League	11-November-1901	23-July-1983
Tambane	Sam			April 1993
Tambani	Sam	Political activist, trade unionist and community leader	23 August 1953	14 April 1993
Tambo	Oliver	Teacher, lawyer, President and National Chairperson of the ANC.	27 October 1917	24 April 1993
Tambo	Adelaide	Nurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the Pan-African Women's Organisation (PAWO), national Treasurer of the ANC Women’s League, ANC MP, the So	18-July-1929	31-January-2007
Tambo	Dali	Activist, Filmmaker, TV-personality, businessman and son of the late Oliver Tambo.	01-March-1961
Tamsairga	Mthembu
Tamsanga	Jeffrey
Tamsanqu	Ketelo
Tamsoqa	Dick
Tandabantu	Majojo ka	Banished person
Tanisi	Maxwell
Tantakela	Siswana
Tantsi	Nimrod Boyce	Insurance agent, helped Clements Kadalie to establish the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in Johannesburg. Was posted to Witbank as a full-time ANC organiser for the eastern Transvaal. When the short-lived League of African Rights was set up by the Communist Party (CPSA) in 1929, Tantsi became one of its leaders, composed the popular political song "Mayibuye", member of the Transvaal ANC executive committee, chaplain, acting Transvaal ANC president, Elder in the AME Church, author, PAC sympathiser
Tapi	Samson
Tarshish	Jack	A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Springbok Legion
Tas	Adam		1668	1722
Tatane	Geogre
Tati	Zola			11-July-1988
Tau	Cornelius			03-March-1986
Tau	Hlolile
Taung	The Taung Child
Tavhana	Paul		1930
Taycke	Eric
Taylor	Sydney		1870	1952
Taylor	Daphne
Taylor	Dora	Member of the Lenin Club, Founder member of the Non European Unity Movement and Author.	1899	1976
Taylor	Rupert
Tebaho	Qhobashiane
Tebeila	Alfred	Banished person.
Tebogo	Ditsebe
Tebogo	Makubala
Teboho	Direko
Tefetso	Mothibe
Teffo	Michael	artist		1957
Tefu	Stephen	Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Central Committee in Johannesburg, organizer for the Federation of Non-European Trade Unions, chairman of the African General Workers' Union in Pretoria. Banned in the 1950s	c. 1910
Tefu	Matlakana	Member of the PAC, former political prisoner on Robben Island and he was the Deputy Secretary General of PAM.	1940	13 November 2012
Tefu	Madimetja			26 December 1976
Teisi	Gabriel			26 December 1976
Tema	S. S.	Dutch Reformed minister, founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation, served as chairman of a committee in the Transvaal charged with reviving the African National Congress (ANC) after it had become dormant under Pixley Seme's leadership.
Temba	Gelo
Temba	Matanga
Temba	Mayela
Tembe	Befile
Tembele	Ngotsha
Tembile	Hletuve
Tembile	Hletiwe
Temi	Khame
Tempo	Anna
Tempo	Anna	Christian missionary who dedicated her life to helping the downtrodden, especially women prostitutes in Cape Town.	1870	30 May 1946
Tengani	Johannes			(approx 1987)
Tennant	Alice Desiree
Terence	Dlamini
Terre’Blanche	Eugène	Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader.	31 January 1941	3 April 2010
Terry	Mike	Former Executive Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement	1947	2 December 2008*
Thabo	Lerumo
Thabo	Motsoeneng
Thabo	Nkopodi
Thabo	Ramaditse
Thabo	Makunyane
Thaele	James M.	President of the Western Cape ANC and editor	1888	1948
Thamaga	Solomon	Banished person
Thamsanqa	Methuli
Thamsanqa	Mkwanazi
Thandekile	Titi
Thanjekwayo	Nkosinat			06/08/88
Thapelo	Seoko
Thathia	Kiren		1959
Thebe	Gerald
Thebe	Piet
Thebehali	Ngoako David	Former Mayor of Soweto	1938
Thebogo	Pelele
Theiler	Gertrud	Scientist and lecturer	11 September 1897	2 May 1986
Theiler	Arnold	feterinary Scientist.		24 July 1936
Thelejane	Thabiso	Minor, Worker, Casualty		16 August 2012
Thema	Richard	Chairperson of the committee that drew up a new constitution for the South African Native National Congress,editor of The Bantu World,served on the Native Representative Council (NRC), representing the rural areas of the Transvaal and the	1886	1955
Themba	Canodoise (Can)	South African writer.	21-June-1924	1968
Themba				11/11/82
Themba	Khumalo
Themba	Maja
Themba	Msomi
Themba	Mthembu
Thembani	Sipho			27 January 1992
Thembekile	Jantjies
Thembikile	Nyobo
Thembinkosi	Zulu
Thembinkosi	Jacobs
Thembisile	Batyi
Thembu	M
Thenjekwayo	Nkosinathi			08/06/88
Theodore	Mlanda
Theophilus	Cholo
Theophilus	Mavuso
Theophilus	Mzukwa
Theron	Jan
Thibedi	T W	Member of the International Socialist League in the Cape, supervisor of the CPSA's night school in Ferreirastown, Johannesburg, elected to the CPSA's Central Executive Committee, General Secretary of the Federation of Non-European Trade Union
Thinane	Sello
Thipe	D
Thisibode	Madalambane
Thloloe	Joseph	Member of the PAC, political detainee, chairman of the South African National Editors' Forum(SANEF), president of the Union of Black Journalists and Media Workers Association of South Africa and press ombudsman	01 July 1942
Thoba	Alfred
Thobela	Dingaan	Boxer, funeral director.	24 September 1966
Thobile	Nkumbi
Thobile	Nokele
Thokwe	Maserumule
Thomas	James
Thomas	Mabuza
Thomas	Mashaba
Thomas	Masuku
Thomas	Mngadi
Thomas	Mtambo
Thomas	Gladys	Poet, playwright and short story writer.	1935	April 2022
Thompson	Douglas	Religious leader, Treason Trialist, Political activist and political detainee	8 August 1905	1985
Thompson	Daweti
Thompson	Gaza
Thompson	Chamane		1931	5 September 1961
Thompson	Helen	anti-apartheid political activist, founding member of the Black Sash
Thoms	Raymond
Thorne	Athol		15-October-1921	14-September-2001
Thorne	Coelette	A part of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Modern Youth Society (MYS)
Thornton	Amy	Anti-apartheid activist, member of SACP, MYS, and ANC, secretary of Joint Congress Committee, served on the Treason Trial Support Committee, participated in the 1956 women’s march, founding member of UWO, patron of the UDF, banned for fourteen years by the apartheid regime, recipient of Government’s National Order for her commitment to the liberation struggle	1932
Thorpe	Jo	South African artist.	1921	18-February-1995
Thozamile	Mpongoshe
Thugwane	Josiah	SA thlete and first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in 1996	22 April 1971
Thulani	Mabaso
Thulare	Arthur	Member of the ANC and a banished person.
Thwala	Gwaza			11-November-1980
Tiadi	Moses
Tickey	Masake
Tikana	Alex	Banished person.
Tikly	Mohammed	member of the TIYC, TIC and the ANC, Coordinator of the Somafco Collection, Batlagae Trust, worked at the Department of National Education, member of the ANC’s Archives’ Committee and the Archives at Fort Hare University and is a trustee of Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust.
Tile	Nehemiah	Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, established his own Tembu Church	1885
Tillim	Guy	Photographer	1962
Timlin	William Mitcheson
Timol	Ahmed	Teacher, member of the South African Communist Party, first political detainee to die at the hands of the Security Police at the notorious John Vorster Police Station, Johannesburg	03-November-1941	27-October-1971
Timola	Jeremiah			14-August-1986
Timothy	Jantjies
Timothy	Madolo
Timothy	Mene
Tingwe	Monde
Tinto	Fihla	ANC Political Activist	25-December-1925	14-August-2005
Tintswala	Mashamba
Tip	Karel	Lawyer and trade union activist
Tiro	Abram	Political activist, teacher, member of the South African Students Organisation and Black Consciousness Movement, SASO’s Permanent Organiser, Honorary President of the Southern African Students’ Movement, exiled person, killed by a parcel bomb.	9 November 1947	1 February 1974
Tiro	Aaron
Tischauer	Julia	A member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD)
Titus	Hendriks
Titus	Jobo
Tiya	Oga			11-November-1991
Tjiphura	Kaleb
Tladi	Lefifi	Poet, musician, painter, historian, teacher, philosopher	4 January 1949
Tladi	Lazarus
Tladi	Manthatha
Tlakula	Pansy	Chair of the Independent Electoral Commission, Chair of the University of North-West Council and Advocate of the supreme court of South Africa.	18-December-1957
Tlali	Miriam	Novelist, short-story writer and the first Black woman in South Africa to publish a novel.	11-November-1933	24-February-2017
Tlanyane	Jeremiah			1960/03/21
Tlhapane	Bafana
Tlhonelang	Maape
Tlhotlhomisang	Lucas			26-March-1990
Tlhotlomisang	Lucas			26-March-1990
Tobias	Phillip	Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Human Biology and anti–apartheid academic	1925
Tobias	Phillip	Chair of NUSAS, medical doctor, palaeo-anthropologist, lecturer, author, geneticist, scientist, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, head of the research department at the Sterkfontein Caves	14 October 1925	7 June 2012
Tobias	Ann	A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.
Toivo	Herman
Toivo Ya Toivo	Andimba	Deputy Chairman of the Modern Youth Society (MYS), Founder member of the Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC), Member of the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) and the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO)	22 August 1924
Tokota	Kenny			26.12.76
Tole	Fikile
Tole	Fumanekile
Tolkien	John	Author	03-January-1892	02-September-1973
Tom	Mthuthuzeli	Pioneer trade unionist and NUMSA leader.	7 September 1959	27 August 2010
Tom	Fotsho
Tom	Dingana
Tom	Moses
Toms	Ivan		11 July 1953	25 March 2008
Tomsanga	Mthembu
Tone	Majau			08-September-1986
Tonjeni	Elliot	Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), active in the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union and the African National Congress	1895	1962
Tose	Martin	A South African born painter and sculptor	1958	2004
Toto	Masiza
Tovey	Neil	Former Football player, South African Coach	2 July 1962
Treurnicht	Andries	Former Conservative Party Leader.	19 February 1921	22 April 1993
Trevor	Wentzel
Trew	Anthony	A member of African Resistance Movement (ARM) and the African National Congress (ANC). Detained for three years.
Trewhela	Paul	A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)
Truman	Magubane
Tsafendas	Dimitri	Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.	14 January1918	07 October 1999
Tsakane	Phillip
Tsame	Fikile
Tsatsi	Matsidiso			05-January-1984
Tseke	Ben			11-November-1986
Tseke	Kgalabotwane	Banished person.
Tsela	Edward			21-March-1960
Tsele	Peter	fedical doctor
Tsele	Benson		1932	21 March 1968
Tsepo	Mashigo
Tsewu	Edward		1866
Tshabala	Vusi			27 October 1992
Tshabalala	Enoch		1941
Tshabalala	Mshiywa	Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairman of the ANC Veterans League	1930
Tshabalala	Vincent	Member and Chairman of COSAS, member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).	15-August-1964	09-February-1985
Tshabalala	Veli			11-November-1988
Tshabalala	Fani
Tshabalala	Mpini
Tshabalala	Vusi
Tshabalala	Christopher			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Godfrey			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Jeffrey			17.7.76
Tshabalala	Michael			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Sarah			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Tennyson			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Titus			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Veronica			26.12.76
Tshabalala	Humprey
Tshabalala	Amos			17 Nov. 1987
Tshabalala	Pearl			10 February 1988
Tshabalala	Sipho
Tshabalala	Zweli			14 April 1991
Tshabalala	Almond			10 January 1992
Tshabalala	Siphiwe		25 September 1984
Tshabalala-Msimang	Mantombazana	Exiled ANC leader 1962-1990, Medical Doctor, Deputy Justice Minister 1994-1998, Health Minister 1999-2008	09-October-1940	16-December-2009
Tshabangu	Andrew	Photographer	1966
Tshali	Mongameli		16-October-1938	07-September-2011
Tshangela	Theophilus	Banished person
Tshawe	Dwaba
Tshazibane	Wellington			11-December-1976
Tshidiso	Phofu
Tshikila	Xolisile
Tshikudo	Samuel			20-January-1984
Tshinka	Joseph			11-November-1984
Tshiwula	Alfred
Tshokodibane	Lawrence			9.9.76
Tshuma	Cornwell			21-March-1960
Tshume	Gladstone Xala	Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), trade unionist, secretary of the African Textile Workers' Union, lay preacher in the Bantu Methodist Church	1912	1957
Tshume	Tamsanqa Tasque	Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress, member of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) national executive and its president in the Cape, during the&nbs	1925
Tshwane	William			25-July-1976
Tshwete	Stephen	Secretary of the Border regional command of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), imprisoned on Robben Island, teacher, UDF President for the Border region, member of the ANC's Politico-Military Council secretariat and Army Commissar of MK, membe	12-November-1938	26-April-2002
Tsie	Joseph
Tsikalanga	Gilbert	Banished person.
Tsiki	Zandisile
Tsitetsi. Samuel				1.11.76
Tsoletsane	Rodney
Tsolo	Kalake
Tsotetsi	Jeremiah			11-November-1983
Tsotetsi	Stanley
Tsotsi	Wycliffe MIungisi	President of the All African Convention (AAC), teacher, lawyer
Tsotsobe	Mnikelo
Tswai	Malebane
Tswene	Titu			27.8.76
Tubukwa	Jundea			11-September-1968
Tubukwa,	Jundea			11-September-1968
Tukuza	Mphangeli Tukuza	Minor, Worker, Casualty		16 August 2012
Tume	Leon			11-November-1980
Tume	Leonard	Leonard Tebogo Tume known as Norman Nkosi was born in Galeshewe, Kimberly. In November, 1976 he became an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadre and went for training in Botswana.	10 April 1957	13 June 1980
Tunsi	Robert	ANC member, was chairman of the committee which built the first independent primary school in Newclare.	1914
Turner	Richard	Visionary academic who inspired a generation of young activists (student's movements) and helped galvanize the labour movement's resurgence before his assassination in 1978.	25 September 1941	8 January 1978
Turok	Ben	Surveyor, lecturer and secretary of the COD, arrested for treason in 1956, trade union organiser, elected unopposed to represent Africans of the Western Cape on the Cape Provincial Council, convicted under the Explosives Act, political prisoner, banned person, exile	26-June-1927	09-December-2019
Turok	Mary	A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), South African Congress of Democrats (COD), African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), exiled person.
Tutu	Desmond	Outspoken critic of apartheid, teacher, author, lecturer, Nobel Prize winner, former Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa	7 October 1931	26 December 2021
Twala	Jacob			30.10.76
Twala	Joseph			19 September 1991
Twasi	Chiao
Twelf	Silimane
Twoboy	Mtwetwe
Tyabashe	William	Banished person
Tyaliti	Edward	Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the All African Convention (AAC), banished person
Tyaliwe	Fanekile
Tyamzashe	Benjamin John Peter	Composer, Choir Conductor, Organist and Teacher	5 September 1890	04 June 1978
Tyamzashe	Henry Daniel	Printer and journalist, provincial secretary of the ICU for the Transvaal, edited The Workers' Herald and later New Africa, the paper of the Independent Industrial Commercial Union	1880
Tyatyeka	Eric
Tyeku	Simon	Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress, accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, coal dealer and property owner	1904
Tyiki	Robert			17.6.76
Tyini	Corry		1931	19 November 1965
Tyita	James			24-January-1964
Tyler	C.
Tyobeka	Msimasi		1938	30 May 1967
Tyrrell	Barbara		15 March 1912
Tyrrell	Barbara Eleanor Harcourt	frtist	15 March 1912
Tyson	Sillah
Tyutyu	Moyisile	Anti-apartheid activist, ANC member, MK underground operative, Robben Island prisoner, recipient of the Government’s National Order of Luthuli in Silver, Deputy Chairperson of ANCVL	1935 (or 1934)

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