Biographies
152 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0124725 | biography | Subbiah Moodley | 1944 | ✓ |
| 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-0080678 | biography | Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba | 1950-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0078365 | biography | Riot Mkwananzi | – | – |
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0067934 | biography | Robert John McBride | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0066324 | biography | James Kantor | 1927-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0009105 | biography | Harold Strachan | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008841 | biography | Siphiwe Nyanda | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008791 | biography | Carl Niehaus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008200 | biography | Abdulhay Jassat | 1934 | – |
Subbiah Moodley
Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC)…
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…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, western Gauteng, in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four…
Riot Mkwananzi
Helene Marie Passtoors
Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in…
Robert John McBride
Robert John McBride was born on 6 July 1963 at the segregated Addington Hospital in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in the section set…
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…
Harold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for…
Carl Niehaus
Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans…
Abdulhay Jassat
Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress…