Biographies
248 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008051 | biography | Suliman Moosa Esakjee | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008005 | biography | Justice John Mowbray Didcott | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0007980 | biography | Edgar Arthur Deane | 1908 | ✓ |
| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0153063 | biography | Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa | 1967-2025 | – |
| B-0008348 | biography | Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla | 1948 | – |
| B-0141673 | biography | Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng | 1918-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0071696 | biography | Joseph Johannes Marks | 1936-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007914 | biography | Rev. James Arthur Calata | 1895-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0007902 | biography | Henry Burton | 1866-1935 | ✓ |
| B-0144777 | biography | Thomas Mbeki | 1900 | ✓ |
| B-0086265 | biography | Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias | 1925-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0007931 | biography | Ohm Collins Chabane | 1960-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008063 | biography | Walton Zacharias Fenyang | 1877-1957 | ✓ |
| B-0008376 | biography | Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane | 1881-1971 | ✓ |
Suliman Moosa Esakjee
Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its…
Justice John Mowbray Didcott
John Mowbray Didcott was born on 14 August 1931, Durban, Natal. After matriculating at Hilton College, outside Pietermaritzburg, Natal …
Edgar Arthur Deane
Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a…
Professor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was…
Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa
Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race…
Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to…
Joseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp…
Rev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and…
Henry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown…
Thomas Mbeki
Little is known of his background except that he was Xhosa-speaking and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of…
Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he…
Ohm Collins Chabane
Ohm Collins Chabane was born on 15 April 1960 in Xikundu Village, in Limpopo (then Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School,…
Walton Zacharias Fenyang
Walton Zacharias Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the African National…
Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were…