Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008685 | biography | Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho | 1921-2012 | – |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008601 | biography | Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba | 1933 | – |
| B-0008591 | biography | Thandi Modise | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008579 | biography | Andrew Mokete Mlangeni | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008561 | biography | Alfred Milner | 1854-1925 | ✓ |
| B-0008538 | biography | Ismail Chota Meer | 1918-2000 | – |
| B-0008515 | biography | Govan Mbeki | 1910-2001 | – |
| B-0008507 | biography | Vuyi Lesley Mbalo | – | – |
| B-0008500 | biography | Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews | 1901-1968 | – |
| B-0008499 | biography | Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews | 1929-2010 | – |
| B-0008491 | biography | Florence Matomela | 1910-1969 | ✓ |
| B-0008485 | biography | Philemon Mathole | 1916 | – |
| B-0008484 | biography | James Matthews | 1929-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0008450 | biography | J B Marks | 1903-1972 | ✓ |
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…
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…
Ismail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father…
Govan Mbeki
Govan Mbeki (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the…
Vuyi Lesley Mbalo
Vuyi Lesley Mbalo was born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who…
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a…
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor,…
Florence Matomela
Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx…
Philemon Mathole
Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers…
James Matthews
James David Matthews was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing standard seven,…
J B Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway…