Biographies
279 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | – |
| B-0141663 | biography | Raymond Hoffenberg | 1923-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0122852 | biography | Robert Gabriel Mugabe | 1924-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0098660 | biography | Patrice Émery Lumumba | 1925-1961 | – |
| B-0096364 | biography | Glenn Moss | 1952 | – |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0095122 | biography | Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney | 1888-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
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…
Raymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school…
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare…
Kay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid…
Patrice Émery Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai,…
Glenn Moss
Glenn Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He went to…
Sara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle…
Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney
Reverend Bernard Lazarus Emmanuel Sigamoney was a political activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade…
Martin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture…