Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ |
| B-0008559 | biography | Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0067935 | biography | Nombuso Mchunu | – | – |
| B-0067933 | biography | Letta Mbulu | 1942 | – |
| B-0008273 | biography | Linda Komape | 1949 | – |
| B-0008207 | biography | Gail Johnson | – | – |
| B-0150335 | biography | Motlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho | 1938-1996 | ✓ |
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…
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. She has been writing and…
Nombuso Mchunu
On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union, while she looked for…
Letta Mbulu
Letta Mbulu was born in Soweto and, during her teens, she toured South Africa and then England with the musical King Kong. She returned to…
Linda Komape
Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a…
Gail Johnson
Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997…
Motlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of…