Biographies
66 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008734 | biography | Phyllis Naidoo | 1928-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008629 | biography | Molly Wolton | 1906-1947 | – |
| B-0008579 | biography | Andrew Mokete Mlangeni | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008487 | biography | Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji | 1922-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008274 | biography | Moses Mauane Kotane | 1905-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008264 | biography | Ian David Kitson | 1919-2010 | – |
| B-0008230 | biography | Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils | 1936-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008219 | biography | Plaatjies Joseph Paul | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0008160 | biography | Bartholomew Hlapane | 1918-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008136 | biography | Harry Themba Gwala | 1920-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0008105 | biography | Denis Theodore Goldberg | 1933-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008070 | biography | Molly Fischer | 1908-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
Josie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen…
Phyllis Naidoo
Phyllis Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and…
Molly Wolton
Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant…
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of…
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling…
Leon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from…
Moses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a…
Ian David Kitson
Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization…
Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited…
Plaatjies Joseph Paul
Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as…
Bartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to…
Harry Themba Gwala
Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt…
Denis Theodore Goldberg
Denis Theodore Goldberg was born on 11th April 1933 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). His parents, Sam and Annie, had both…
Molly Fischer
Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton, near Pretoria. Her…
Ruth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius…