Biographies
66 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0151906 | biography | Irvin Jim | 1968 | ✓ |
| B-0151905 | biography | Essop Goolam Pahad | 1939-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0150852 | biography | Magasvarie Govender | – | ✓ |
| B-0150362 | biography | Pauline Podbrey | 1922-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0150328 | biography | Joey Fourie | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0150327 | biography | Hettie McCleod | 1922-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0150276 | biography | Winifred Seqwana | 1897-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0150170 | biography | Lillian Diedericks | 1925 | ✓ |
| B-0141682 | biography | Stephanie Kemp | 1941-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0096739 | biography | Nomvula Paula Mokonyane | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0096463 | biography | Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan | 1949-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0095164 | biography | Anne-Marie Wolpe | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
| B-0095146 | biography | Amy Thornton | 1932 | ✓ |
Irvin Jim
Irvin Jim was born in1968 in the Eastern Cape in Motherwell. He became a university student, active in the anti-apartheid movement but…
Essop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a…
Magasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old,…
Pauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933,…
Joey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in…
Hettie McCleod
Hettie McCleod was born on 27 June 1922 in Goodwood, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). She was the youngest of five children …
Winifred Seqwana
Winifred Seqwana was born in 1897 and settled in Cape Town, where she became the first African woman member of the Communist Party of South…
Lillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth,…
Stephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the…
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In…
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She is the youngest in a family of 12…
Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have…
Anne-Marie Wolpe
Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and…
Violet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet…
Amy Thornton
Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in…