Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0065035 | biography | Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo | 1947-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0064878 | biography | Bonakele Milner Ntsangani | 1923-1989 | – |
| B-0009003 | biography | Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0009000 | biography | Lucas Seage | 1956-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008942 | biography | Dolly Rathebe | 1928-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008875 | biography | Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba | 1912-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0008455 | biography | Dikobe Ben Martins | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008119 | biography | Vera Gow (Adams) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0008719 | biography | Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi | 1929-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0153087 | biography | Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso) | 1943-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0068169 | biography | Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo | 1917-1957 | – |
| B-0007886 | biography | Breyten Breytenbach | 1939-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0153052 | biography | Peter Randall | 1935-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0153044 | biography | Feya Faku | 1962-2025 | ✓ |
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…
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He…
Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs…
Lucas Seage
Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then…
Dolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of…
Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
Mnyaluza Pemba was born on 2 April 1912 at Hill’s Kraal in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der…
Dikobe Ben Martins
"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most…
Vera Gow (Adams)
Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town. Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her…
Thandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated…
Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa Mvusi (known as Selby) was born in Richmond, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 18 June 1929, to Vunina (born Nxasana)…
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April…
Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
Henry Nxumalo was born in 1917 at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he…
Breyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally…
Peter Randall
