Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0064871 | biography | Suliman “Babla” Saloojee | 1931-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0064867 | biography | Paul Shipokosa Mashatile | 1961 | – |
| B-0009251 | biography | Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa | 1923-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0009166 | biography | Stephen Vukile Tshwete | 1938-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0009114 | biography | Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart | 1894-1982 | – |
| B-0009003 | biography | Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0009000 | biography | Lucas Seage | 1956-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008942 | biography | Dolly Rathebe | 1928-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008875 | biography | Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba | 1912-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0008860 | biography | Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad | 1912 | ✓ |
| B-0008782 | biography | Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle | 1922-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008768 | biography | Henry Reed Ngcayiya | 1863-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0008532 | biography | Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda | 1916-1993 | – |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008471 | biography | Emma Thandi Mashinini | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
Suliman “Babla” Saloojee
Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was…
Paul Shipokosa Mashatile
Paul Mashatile was born on 21 October 1961 in Geraldsville, Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation…
Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of…
Stephen Vukile Tshwete
Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's…
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and…
Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs…
Lucas Seage
Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then…
Dolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of…
Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
Mnyaluza Pemba was born on 2 April 1912 at Hill’s Kraal in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der…
Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
Pahad left India for South Africa in 1919, but returned to India with his father in 1922 to continue with his educational studies. When…
Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the…
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school…
Charlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape,…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to…