Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0065504 | biography | Nöel Robb | 1913-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0064868 | biography | Lutchmee Marie | 1923 | – |
| B-0009259 | biography | Helen Zille | 1951 | ✓ |
| B-0009246 | biography | Madie Hall-Xuma | 1894-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0009031 | biography | Dorothy Shanley | 1920-2001 | – |
| B-0009021 | biography | Dulcie Evonne September | 1935-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008927 | biography | Betty Radford | – | – |
| B-0008753 | biography | Sister Bernard Ncube | 1932-2012 | – |
| B-0008747 | biography | Dr Hersheela Narsee | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008720 | biography | Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge | 1942-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008629 | biography | Molly Wolton | 1906-1947 | – |
| B-0008604 | biography | Martha Mohlakoane | 1906 | – |
| B-0008574 | biography | Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize | 1889-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0008564 | biography | Nomkhosi Mary Mini | 1959-1985 | ✓ |
Nöel Robb
Nöel Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval…
Lutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic…
Helen Zille
Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the…
Madie Hall-Xuma
A. B. Xuma's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women…
Dorothy Shanley
Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest…
Dulcie Evonne September
Dulcie Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was born on the 20th August 1935 in Royal rd, Maitland…
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree…
Betty Radford
Betty Radford was arrested after the 4 August 1946 miner’s strike, together with, among others, WH Andrews and Moses Kotane. She was the…
Sister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and…
Dr Hersheela Narsee
Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai…
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) to Wilmot Goso…
Molly Wolton
Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant…
Martha Mohlakoane
Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the African…
Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver, died when Bertha was about four years old. After his…
Nomkhosi Mary Mini
Nomkhosi Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first…