Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008455 | biography | Dikobe Ben Martins | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008442 | biography | Chief Maqoma | – | – |
| B-0008119 | biography | Vera Gow (Adams) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008034 | biography | Bettie du Toit | 1910-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008008 | biography | King Dinuzulu | 1868-1913 | – |
| B-0153582 | biography | Khaya Biko | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0153080 | biography | Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize) | 20 January-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008576 | biography | Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi | 1923-2004 | – |
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0008719 | biography | Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi | 1929-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0068365 | biography | Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko | 1917 | – |
| B-0153110 | biography | Patrick Chamusso | – | – |
| B-0153096 | biography | Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn | 1939-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0153093 | biography | Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels | 1964-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0153087 | biography | Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso) | 1943-2023 | ✓ |
Dikobe Ben Martins
"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most…
Chief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand…
Vera Gow (Adams)
Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town. Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her…
Bettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her…
King Dinuzulu
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national…
Khaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and…
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life,…
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a…
Thandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated…
Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa Mvusi (known as Selby) was born in Richmond, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 18 June 1929, to Vunina (born Nxasana)…
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums…
Patrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the…
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Dr…
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South…
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April…