Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009064 | biography | Debi Singh | 1913-1970 | ✓ |
| B-0009054 | biography | Annie Silinga | 1910-1984 | – |
| B-0009051 | biography | Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau | 1937-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0009020 | biography | Reginald (Reggie) September | 1923-2013 | – |
| B-0008976 | biography | Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs | 1935 | – |
| B-0008936 | biography | Mewa Ramgobin | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008934 | biography | Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008931 | biography | Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul | 1952 | – |
| B-0008897 | biography | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje | 1876-1932 | – |
| B-0008880 | biography | Myron Peter | – | ✓ |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008740 | biography | Billy Nair | 1929-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008737 | biography | Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo | 1860-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0008734 | biography | Phyllis Naidoo | 1928-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008731 | biography | H. A. Naidoo | 1915-1971 | ✓ |
Debi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary…
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East…
Reginald (Reggie) September
Reginald September was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter…
Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at…
Mewa Ramgobin
Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents arrived in Natal as indentured…
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of…
Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb an. In 1961…
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who…
Myron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now…
Josie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen…
Billy Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy…
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of…
Phyllis Naidoo
Phyllis Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and…
H. A. Naidoo
H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active…