Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0122793 | biography | Dali Tambo | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008394 | biography | Miriam Makeba | 1932-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0081345 | biography | Robert Grendon | 1867-1949 | – |
| B-0007908 | biography | Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi | 1906-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008003 | biography | Bartolomeu Dias | 1450-1500 | ✓ |
| B-0123687 | biography | Mattheus Uys Krige | 1910-1987 | – |
| B-0141664 | biography | Marcus Solomon | 1939 | ✓ |
| B-0065253 | biography | Henry “Black Cat” Cele | 1949-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0094335 | biography | Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel | 1946-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008211 | biography | Peter Jones | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0007836 | biography | Walter Battiss | 1906-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0068701 | biography | Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0066409 | biography | Daniel William Alexander | 1883-1970 | ✓ |
| B-0150288 | biography | Adam Small | 1936-2016 | ✓ |
Peter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919…
Dali Tambo
Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane…
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was…
Robert Grendon
Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee…
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed…
Mattheus Uys Krige
Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most…
Marcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil…
Henry “Black Cat” Cele
Henry “Black Cat” Cele was born on 30 January 1949 in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa. As a member of the Cele family he was referred to by…
Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now…
Peter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he…
Walter Battiss
Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important…
Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
Nkosinathi Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out…
Daniel William Alexander
Daniel William Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as…
Adam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and…