Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008592 | biography | Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi | 1925-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0009102 | biography | Irma Stern | 1894-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0007917 | biography | Margaret Roach Killie Campbell | 1881-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008489 | biography | Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala | 1962-2013 | – |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0095437 | biography | Winston Monwabisi Ngozi | 1943-2009 | – |
| B-0094958 | biography | Jonathan Clegg | 1953-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0009079 | biography | Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes | 1926-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007945 | biography | Peter Clarke | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008288 | biography | Mazisi Raymond Kunene | 1930-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0067755 | biography | Leleti Khumalo | 1970 | ✓ |
| B-0008512 | biography | Eric Mbatha | 1948 | – |
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0122793 | biography | Dali Tambo | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008394 | biography | Miriam Makeba | 1932-2008 | ✓ |
Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus,…
Irma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in…
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…
Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
Jacob Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an…
Frantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family…
Winston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s…
Jonathan Clegg
Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but his mother was from…
Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes
Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was born on 1st June in 1926 in East London. Skotnes served in the South African Forces in Italy. Before…
Peter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and…
Mazisi Raymond Kunene
Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his…
Leleti Khumalo
Leleti Khumalo was born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township, the North of Durban. Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became a…
Eric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He…
Peter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919…
Dali Tambo
Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane…
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was…