Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0147355 | biography | Iyavar Moonsamy Chetty | – | – |
| B-0068227 | biography | Reverend Beyers Naudé | 1915 | – |
| B-0150376 | biography | Maggie Oewies-Shongwe | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0009237 | biography | Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood | 1874-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0009231 | biography | Maria Wilman | 1867-1957 | ✓ |
| B-0009219 | biography | Trineke Weijdema | – | – |
| B-0009200 | biography | Jean van der Poel | 1904-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0009083 | biography | Charlene Smith | – | – |
| B-0008988 | biography | Magdalena Gertruide Sauer | 1890-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0008899 | biography | Mary Agard Pocock | 1886-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008813 | biography | Tu Nokwe | – | – |
| B-0008807 | biography | Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi | 1923 | ✓ |
| B-0008772 | biography | Lauretta Ngcobo | 1931-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0150368 | biography | Ntongela Masilela | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
Iyavar Moonsamy Chetty
Reverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general…
Maggie Oewies-Shongwe
Maggie Oewies-Shongwe was born in 1940 in Namaqualand, Cape Province (now Northern Cape Province). As the youngest in the house, she often…
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown,…
Maria Wilman
Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931,…
Trineke Weijdema
In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle…
Jean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape…
Charlene Smith
A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto uprising the dead…
Magdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly…
Mary Agard Pocock
Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four…
Tu Nokwe
Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer…
Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi
Nkosi became the first Black matron in the Natal Provincial Administration and in KwaZulu-Natal. Her decision to nurse was motivated by a…
Lauretta Ngcobo
Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer…
Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her…
Ntongela Masilela
Professor Ntongela Masilela was born on 9 December 1948 in Orlando West, Soweto, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), the eldest son of…