Biographies
169 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0124151 | biography | Navanethem (Navi) Pillay | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0122372 | biography | Jan Smiesing | 1697-1734 | – |
| B-0122126 | biography | Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi) | 1974-2016 | – |
| B-0095263 | biography | John Collins | 1905-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0065504 | biography | Nöel Robb | 1913-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0064868 | biography | Lutchmee Marie | 1923 | – |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008753 | biography | Sister Bernard Ncube | 1932-2012 | – |
| B-0008680 | biography | James “Sofasonke” Mpanza | 1889-1970 | – |
| B-0008295 | biography | Pius Nkonzo Langa | 1939-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008278 | biography | Johann Christiaan Kriegler | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0008164 | biography | Emily Hobhouse | 1860-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0008144 | biography | Imam Abdullah Haron | 1924-1969 | ✓ |
| B-0008127 | biography | Rev. Aldin Grout | 1803-1894 | – |
| B-0007939 | biography | Frank Chikane | 1951 | – |
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of…
Jan Smiesing
This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people…
Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)
There's still much not known publicly about Fezekile Kuzwayo. Unfortunately, the event that she is best known for is the Jacob Zuma rape…
John Collins
John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur…
Nöel Robb
Nöel Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval…
Lutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic…
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree…
Sister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and…
James “Sofasonke” Mpanza
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township,…
Pius Nkonzo Langa
Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven…
Johann Christiaan Kriegler
An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a provincial and thereafter appellate judge, Judge Johann Christiaan…
Emily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British…
Imam Abdullah Haron
Imam Abdullah Haron was born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous…
Rev. Aldin Grout
Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and…
Frank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic…