Biographies
282 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008205 | biography | Abdullah Haji Adam Jhaveri | – | – |
| B-0008182 | biography | Gopallal Hurbans | 1915 | – |
| B-0008145 | biography | Frederick John Harris | 1937-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008110 | biography | John Gomas | – | – |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0008052 | biography | Abdool Karrim Essak | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0007976 | biography | Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood | 1927 | – |
| B-0007951 | biography | Jameson Gilbert Coka | 1910-1960s | ✓ |
| B-0007913 | biography | Yusuf Cachalia | 1915-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0007841 | biography | Mary Dorothy Benson | 1919-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0007800 | biography | Zainab Ebrahim Asvat | 1920-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007799 | biography | Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal | 1923-1966 | – |
| B-0151242 | biography | Chief Justice Raymond Zondo | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0148778 | biography | Ismail Jacob Mohamed | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0144659 | biography | John Maxwell Coetzee | 1940 | – |
Abdullah Haji Adam Jhaveri
He was commonly referred to as Dada Abdulla. His brother, Abdul Karim Jhaveri, and himself, were the directors of Dada Abdulla and Company…
Gopallal Hurbans
Born in 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and…
Frederick John Harris
Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party In 1962…
John Gomas
John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the…
Dumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five…
Abdool Karrim Essak
Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India. He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left…
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…
Jameson Gilbert Coka
Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College,…
Yusuf Cachalia
Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and…
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…
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief. He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to…
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo
Chief Justice Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi Zondo (popularly known as Judge Raymond Zondo) was born in the rural town of Ixopo, Natal (now…
Ismail Jacob Mohamed
Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five…
John Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in…