Biographies
279 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0094335 | biography | Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel | 1946-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008056 | biography | Brenda Nokuzola Fassie | 1964-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008279 | biography | Antjie Krog | 1952 | – |
| B-0008212 | biography | Ingrid Jonker | 1933-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0068475 | biography | Maniben Sita | 1926-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0068648 | biography | Ismail Vadi | 1960 | – |
| B-0068391 | biography | Cassim Saloojee | 1935-2009 | – |
| B-0008193 | biography | Zubeida Jaffer | 1958 | – |
| B-0008407 | biography | Cecilia Makiwane | 1880-1919 | – |
| B-0008578 | biography | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0085118 | biography | Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang | 1940-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008146 | biography | Abdool Kader Hassim | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0122038 | biography | Diane Case | 1955 | – |
| B-0068153 | biography | Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar | 1914 | – |
Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now…
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country…
Antjie Krog
Antjie was born on 23 October 1952 on a farm in the Free State. She completed her BA degree with Afrikaans (cum laude), Philosophy (cum…
Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape. After her parents’…
Maniben Sita
Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, (Marabastad, Pretoria) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly…
Ismail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity…
Cassim Saloojee
Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was…
Zubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's…
Cecilia Makiwane
Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a teacher…
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was born on 3rd November 1955 in Claremont, Durban in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She matriculated from Ohlange High…
Elizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John…
Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding…
Abdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India…
Diane Case
Diane Case was born in Woodstock, Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family…
Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar
Valiamina Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of Gandhi’s Satyagraha in 1913. On 29 October Mudaliar…