Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008410 | biography | Clarence Mlami Makwetu | 1928-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008402 | biography | Caesarina Kona Makhoere | 1955 | – |
| B-0008386 | biography | Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels | 1905-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0008382 | biography | Yunus Ismail Mahomed | 1950-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008374 | biography | Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza | 1962-2007 | – |
| B-0008367 | biography | Elizabeth Mafekeng | 1918-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008353 | biography | Moses Mabhida | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0008313 | biography | Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota | 1948-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008303 | biography | Lesley Lawson | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008292 | biography | James la Guma | 1894-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008291 | biography | Alex la Guma | 1925-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008274 | biography | Moses Mauane Kotane | 1905-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008255 | biography | Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo | 1922-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008230 | biography | Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils | 1936-2009 | ✓ |
Clarence Mlami Makwetu
Clarence Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of…
Caesarina Kona Makhoere
Caesarina Kona Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955. Her father was a policeman and her mother worked as a domestic worker. At a young…
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels was born on 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
Yunus Ismail Mahomed was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up…
Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
Humphrey Phakade ‘Pax’ Magwaza was born on 4 April 1962, in Lamontville, one of the oldest Durban townships, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN…
Elizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to…
Moses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off…
Norman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding…
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota was born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 August 1948, into a working…
Lesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended…
James la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and…
Alex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the…
Moses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a…
Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance…
Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited…