Biographies
279 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008092 | biography | Sushila Gandhi | 1907-1988 | – |
| B-0008006 | biography | King Dingane ka Senzangakhona | 1795-1840 | – |
| B-0007933 | biography | Allison Wessels George Champion | 1893-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007775 | biography | Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett | 1953-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0065035 | biography | Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo | 1947-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0007772 | biography | Feroza Adam | 1961-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0007886 | biography | Breyten Breytenbach | 1939-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0121675 | biography | Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe | Approx 1870s-1935 | – |
| B-0096669 | biography | Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0096276 | biography | Connie September | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0007945 | biography | Peter Clarke | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0007911 | biography | Azhar Cachalia | 1956 | ✓ |
Sushila Gandhi
Sushila Mashruwallah was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the…
King Dingane ka Senzangakhona
Dingane ka Senzangakhona was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela Ngobese who was Senzangakhona's sixth…
Allison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been…
Professor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was…
Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett
Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in…
Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo, popularly known as Busi Mhlongo, was born on 28 October 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She…
Charlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape,…
Feroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High…
Breyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally…
Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province)…
Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe
Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to…
Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto. Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of…
Connie September
Cornelia “Connie” September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would send her for…
Peter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and…
Azhar Cachalia
Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in Benoni, Gauteng province,…