Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0124151 | biography | Navanethem (Navi) Pillay | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0153117 | biography | Colleen Lombard | 1950-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0093133 | biography | Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008018 | biography | Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008865 | biography | Biddy Partridge | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008280 | biography | Krotoa (Eva) | 1643-1674 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0007922 | biography | Cheryl Carolus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0068245 | biography | Lillian Masediba Ngoyi | 1911-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008735 | biography | Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo | 1935-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0009229 | biography | Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0150649 | biography | Rajes Pillay | 1944-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0150644 | biography | Susan Shabangu | 1956 | ✓ |
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of…
Colleen Lombard
Colleen Lombard (previously known as Colleen Rayson), an anti-apartheid activist, former political detainee, and treason trialist, was born…
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…
Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
IntroductionNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely…
Biddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance…
Krotoa (Eva)
Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao, a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was…
Ruth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius…
Cheryl Carolus
Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was employed as a printer’s…
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei…
Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now…
Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn was born in 1938, in Villageboard, a mixed area that had different nationalities living side by side. She…
Rajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were…
Susan Shabangu
Susan Shabangu was born on 28 February 1956. She attended Madibane High School in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). From 1980, she became…