Biographies
282 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008927 | biography | Betty Radford | – | – |
| B-0008902 | biography | John Nyathi Pokela | 1922-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008747 | biography | Dr Hersheela Narsee | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008720 | biography | Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge | 1942-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008640 | biography | Mohammed Valli Moosa | 1957 | – |
| B-0008636 | biography | Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley | 1946-2006 | – |
| B-0008562 | biography | Vuyisile Mini | 1920-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0008557 | biography | Raymond Mhlaba | 1920-2005 | – |
| B-0008492 | biography | Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke | 1878-1941 | – |
| B-0008411 | biography | Daniel Francois Malan | 1874-1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008391 | biography | Gana Makabeni | 1955 | – |
| B-0008389 | biography | James J. Majoro | – | – |
| B-0008267 | biography | Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008225 | biography | Sam Kahn | 1911 | – |
| B-0008219 | biography | Plaatjies Joseph Paul | 1930 | ✓ |
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…
John Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In…
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…
Mohammed Valli Moosa
It was, however, only at university that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained…
Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and…
Vuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and…
Raymond Mhlaba
Raymond Mhlaba was born in Mazoka village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his…
Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke
Simon Peter Matseke was born in Pretoria in 1878, but little is known about his early life except that he was a member of the Bakgatlo…
Daniel Francois Malan
D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and…
Gana Makabeni
Gana Makabeni was born in the Transkei. He attended a Communist night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a…
James J. Majoro
A clerk and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of…
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg…
Sam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist…
Plaatjies Joseph Paul
Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as…