Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007818 | biography | Brigalia Bam | – | – |
| B-0007840 | biography | Sathima Bea Benjamin | 1936-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007852 | biography | M. N. Bhola | 1841-1948 | ✓ |
| B-0007845 | biography | Mama Beshenga | 1936 | – |
| B-0007882 | biography | Dorothy Ruth Boxall | 1895-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0079999 | biography | Robert Diko | – | – |
| B-0007946 | biography | Hestrie Cloete | 1978 | ✓ |
| B-0007944 | biography | Martha Helena Cillie | 1866-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0079997 | biography | Samuel Dick | – | – |
| B-0007960 | biography | Hester Elizabeth Cornelius | 1907-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0007972 | biography | Stella Madge Damos | 1930 | – |
| B-0079996 | biography | Nelson Tamsanga Dick | – | – |
| B-0007968 | biography | Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg | 1937-Cape Town,South Africa | ✓ |
| B-0068675 | biography | Letsau Nelson Diale | 1936-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0007984 | biography | Ethel de Keyser | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
Brigalia Bam
Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in…
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up…
M. N. Bhola
M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province. She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC)…
Mama Beshenga
During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act, there was great panic and…
Dorothy Ruth Boxall
Dorothy Ruth Boxall was born on 19 July 1895 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of…
Robert Diko
Hestrie Cloete
Hestrie Cloete (née Storbeck) was born in 1978 in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She grew up in the small town of Coligny, Western…
Martha Helena Cillie
Martha Helena Cillié was born on 22 April 1866 in Wellington (SA). She was the daughter of Charl Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena…
Samuel Dick
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her family was very…
Stella Madge Damos
Born in 1930, Damos was a trade unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she organised a protest meeting…
Nelson Tamsanga Dick
Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
Jacqueline Daane was born on 17 December 1937. A White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when she adopted a mute…
Letsau Nelson Diale
Nelson Diale was born on 1st January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in…
Ethel de Keyser
As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a marriage that…