Biographies
183 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0147251 | biography | Marion Monica Sparg | – | ✓ |
| B-0145431 | biography | Benson Tsele | 1932-1968 | – |
| B-0124272 | biography | Sunny Girja Singh | 1939-2025 | – |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0096368 | biography | Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0095599 | biography | Shirley Gunn | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008131 | biography | Josiah Tshangana Gumede | 1867-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0065300 | biography | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | 1918-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0151905 | biography | Essop Goolam Pahad | 1939-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0150852 | biography | Magasvarie Govender | – | ✓ |
| B-0150379 | biography | Lettie Malindi | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0150270 | biography | Simon Gqubule | 1928-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0149949 | biography | Pixie Benjamin | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0148806 | biography | Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad | 1940-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0148782 | biography | Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu | 1920-1991 | ✓ |
Marion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African…
Benson Tsele
Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was…
Sunny Girja Singh
Sunny Girja Singh was born in Cato Manor (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father,…
Vesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father…
Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township, outside of Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956, and then moved to Soweto. Manzini…
Shirley Gunn
Gunn enrolled for a degree in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her Honors degree. While studying for her…
Josiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and…
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Childhood in the Eastern CapeNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief…
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,…
Lettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a…
Simon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a…
Pixie Benjamin
Pixie Benjamin was a strong anti-apartheid political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh…
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal…
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her…