Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150953 | biography | Shaleen Surtie-Richards | 1955-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0007867 | biography | Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier | 1909-2005 | – |
| B-0149393 | biography | William Khanyile | 1981 | ✓ |
| B-0008086 | biography | Harold Athol Fugard | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0124457 | biography | Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender) | 1934-2021 | – |
| B-0009071 | biography | Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0008472 | biography | Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) | 1935-2008 | – |
| B-0070373 | biography | Josiah Khiphusizi Jele | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0088574 | biography | Bantu Holomisa | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008133 | biography | Sipho Gumede | 1952-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008992 | biography | Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers | 1915-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0009261 | biography | Michael Gagashe Zondi | 1926-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008432 | biography | Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi | 1967-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0122872 | biography | Sydney Alex Kumalo | 1935-1988 | – |
| B-0149616 | biography | Adelaine Florence Hain | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
Shaleen Surtie-Richards
Legendary stage, film, and television actress, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, was born on 7 May 1955 in Upington, Cape Province (now Northern…
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued…
William Khanyile
At a young age, around the early 1960s, William Khanyile began selling the New Age newspaper in Pietermaritzburg. By then he was already…
Harold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father…
Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now…
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg. She is the daughter of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, Walter…
Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei. After the…
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many…
Bantu Holomisa
Major General (Retired) Bantubonke (Bantu) Harrington Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief…
Sipho Gumede
Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a…
Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his…
Michael Gagashe Zondi
Michael Zondi was born on 10 March 1926 in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at…
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art…
Sydney Alex Kumalo
Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded…
Adelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died…