Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008942 | biography | Dolly Rathebe | 1928-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008471 | biography | Emma Thandi Mashinini | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008119 | biography | Vera Gow (Adams) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008034 | biography | Bettie du Toit | 1910-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0153093 | biography | Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels | 1964-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007772 | biography | Feroza Adam | 1961-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0007917 | biography | Margaret Roach Killie Campbell | 1881-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0096669 | biography | Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0122744 | biography | Buchi Emecheta | 1944-2017 | ✓ |
Dolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of…
Charlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape,…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to…
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…
Bettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. 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…
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South…
Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both…
Feroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High…
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the…
Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province)…
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West,…
Margaret Roach Killie Campbell
Margaret Roach Campbell (Killie Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator…
Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto. Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of…
Buchi Emecheta
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the Nigerian city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway…