Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068169 | biography | Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo | 1917-1957 | – |
| B-0144739 | biography | Allan Kirkland Soga | – | – |
| B-0153063 | biography | Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa | 1967-2025 | – |
| B-0121659 | biography | Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo | 1936-1988 | – |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007772 | biography | Feroza Adam | 1961-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0007886 | biography | Breyten Breytenbach | 1939-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0153052 | biography | Peter Randall | 1935-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0153044 | biography | Feya Faku | 1962-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0008592 | biography | Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi | 1925-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0121675 | biography | Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe | Approx 1870s-1935 | – |
| B-0009218 | biography | David Joseph Webster | 1944-1989 | ✓ |
Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
Henry Nxumalo was born in 1917 at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he…
Allan Kirkland Soga
Allan Kirkland Soga was among the founding members of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912, he was the youngest son of Tiyo Soga,…
Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city…
Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both…
Feroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High…
Breyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally…
Peter Randall
Feya Faku
Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus,…
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the…
Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province)…
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West,…
Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe
Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to…
David Joseph Webster
David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later…