Biographies
42 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068385 | biography | Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha | 1923-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0068382 | biography | Mary Goitsemang Ranta | 1922 | – |
| B-0068245 | biography | Lillian Masediba Ngoyi | 1911-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068085 | biography | Ruth Mompati | 1925-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0067964 | biography | Ida Fiyo Mntwana | 1903-1960 | – |
| B-0067963 | biography | Margaret Chuene Mncadi | – | – |
| B-0067956 | biography | Bertha Mkhize | 1889 | – |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| B-0009246 | biography | Madie Hall-Xuma | 1894-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0009120 | biography | Adelaide Frances Tambo | 1929-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0009054 | biography | Annie Silinga | 1910-1984 | – |
| B-0009051 | biography | Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau | 1937-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0008591 | biography | Thandi Modise | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008574 | biography | Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize | 1889-1981 | ✓ |
Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia…
Mary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later…
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later…
Ruth Mompati
Ruth Mompati was born on 14 September 1925 in the village called Khanyesa in the North West Province. She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko…
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader…
Margaret Chuene Mncadi
Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the…
Bertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver died when Bertha was about four years old, after his…
Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
Introduction Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders,…
Professor Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their…
Madie Hall-Xuma
A. B. Xuma's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women…
Adelaide Frances Tambo
Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary…
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East…
Thandi Modise
Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West. Her father,…
Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver, died when Bertha was about four years old. After his…