Biographies
74 records
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| Src | ||||
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| B-0093133 | biography | Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008018 | biography | Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0150649 | biography | Rajes Pillay | 1944-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0124272 | biography | Sunny Girja Singh | 1939-2025 | – |
| B-0123671 | biography | Siva Pillay | – | ✓ |
| B-0096368 | biography | Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0095599 | biography | Shirley Gunn | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0094568 | biography | Esme Bodenstein | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0066324 | biography | James Kantor | 1927-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0008200 | biography | Abdulhay Jassat | 1934 | – |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0007992 | biography | Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0149415 | biography | Mohammed Tikly | – | ✓ |
Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
Refiloe Phelile Florence Jackie Sedibe (known as Jackie Sedibe) was born at White River in Mpumalanga. Sedibe’s mother was a domestic…
Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and…
Ruth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius…
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…
Rajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were…
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,…
Siva Pillay
Siva Pillay was a B.Sc. student at university in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African…
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…
Esme Bodenstein
Esme Bodenstein was born on 6 July 1929 in Johannesburg. She trained as a physiotherapist at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to…
James Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was…
Abdulhay Jassat
Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress…
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother…
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai was born into an Indian family on 10 April 1932 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa…
Mohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in…