Biographies
279 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0125321 | biography | Makhanda Nxele | 1780-1820 | ✓ |
| B-0122541 | biography | Pitika Ntuli | 1942 | – |
| B-0121850 | biography | Kobera Manual | 1918-2016 | – |
| B-0099432 | biography | Michael Nkolo Maapola | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0098638 | biography | Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa | 1941-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0095793 | biography | Alan Wieder | – | – |
| B-0068401 | biography | Emil Sachs | 1900-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0067725 | biography | Dr Martin Luther King jr | 1929-1968 | – |
| B-0066513 | biography | King Cetshwayo | 1826-1884 | ✓ |
| B-0068299 | biography | Dawood Parker | 1936-2009 | – |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0068549 | biography | Mike Terry | 1947-2008 | – |
| B-0008941 | biography | Ebrahim Rasool | 1962 | – |
| B-0007774 | biography | Arthur Albert Hugh Adams | 1929-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0007814 | biography | William George Ballinger | 1894-1974 | ✓ |
Makhanda Nxele
Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for…
Pitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in…
Kobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View,…
Michael Nkolo Maapola
Michael Nkolo Maapola was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal, a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an…
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign…
Alan Wieder
Alan Wieder is an oral historian who has been working since 1999 with South Africans who fought the apartheid regime. Besides numerous…
Emil Sachs
Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks,…
Dr Martin Luther King jr
American Civil Rights leader, influential and inspirational in many African lives For an excellent and richly linked biography, click here
King Cetshwayo
King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period…
Dawood Parker
Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role in local civic affairs. He was a leading voice…
King Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared…
Mike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded…
Ebrahim Rasool
Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July 1962 in District Six, Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of…
Arthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His…
William George Ballinger
William George Ballinger was born on 21st of September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British Independent…