Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008468 | biography | Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba) | 1934-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008460 | biography | Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0008444 | biography | Gill Marcus | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0008265 | biography | Norma Kitson | 1933-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008248 | biography | Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile | 1949 | – |
| B-0008201 | biography | Christina Jasson | 1928 | – |
| B-0008164 | biography | Emily Hobhouse | 1860-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0008028 | biography | Sheena Duncan | 1932-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0007976 | biography | Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood | 1927 | – |
| B-0007900 | biography | Sonia Beryl Bunting | 1922-2001 | – |
| B-0007860 | biography | Molly Blackburn | 1930-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0007856 | biography | Diana (Di) Bishop | – | – |
| B-0007841 | biography | Mary Dorothy Benson | 1919-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0007800 | biography | Zainab Ebrahim Asvat | 1920-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0150954 | biography | Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize | 1940 | ✓ |
Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her early childhood. She attended the Thokoza…
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela was born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg. She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas…
Gill Marcus
Gill Marcus was born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in…
Norma Kitson
Norma Kitson (nee Cranko) was born to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban. She was one of four children, and had an elder sister Joan…
Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile
Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the…
Christina Jasson
Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and…
Emily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British…
Sheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated…
Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
Ayesha Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester, Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young…
Sonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work…
Molly Blackburn
Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP…
Diana (Di) Bishop
Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town. She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic…
Mary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received…
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg, daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She…
Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was born on 12 April 1940 in Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s forced removal from…