Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150021 | biography | Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela | 1960-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0149719 | biography | Coline Williams | 1967-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0147251 | biography | Marion Monica Sparg | – | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| 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-0073820 | biography | Phila Portia Ndwandwe | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0141682 | biography | Stephanie Kemp | 1941-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0095275 | biography | Ramnie Dinat | – | ✓ |
| B-0149794 | biography | Oprah Winfrey | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0151628 | biography | Gladys Thomas | 1935-2022 | ✓ |
| B-0150852 | biography | Magasvarie Govender | – | ✓ |
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie…
Coline Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three…
Marion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African…
Vesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father…
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…
Phila Portia Ndwandwe
Phila Portia Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the…
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…
Stephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the…
Ramnie Dinat
Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) since her childhood…
Oprah Winfrey
Daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (May 2, 1935 - November 22, 2018), a former maid. She was raised as the daughter of Vernon…
Gladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an…
Magasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old,…