Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008865 | biography | Biddy Partridge | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008832 | biography | Cedric Nunn | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0008790 | biography | Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa | 1955 | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ |
| B-0008685 | biography | Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho | 1921-2012 | – |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008601 | biography | Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba | 1933 | – |
| B-0008597 | biography | Santu Mofokeng | 1956-2020 | – |
| B-0008591 | biography | Thandi Modise | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008579 | biography | Andrew Mokete Mlangeni | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008561 | biography | Alfred Milner | 1854-1925 | ✓ |
Biddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance…
Josie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen…
Cedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu…
Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa
Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of Springs, Gauteng (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals in…
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…
Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho
Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho was born to a peasant family in Maun Bechuanaland (now Botswana) on 3 February 1921. His family came from a non…
Rahima Moosa
Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. As a teenager, Rahima…
Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben…
Santu Mofokeng
Born in 1956, Mofokeng grew up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial…
Thandi Modise
Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West. Her father,…
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of…
Alfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed…