Biographies
282 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0070720 | biography | Sefako Mapogo Makgatho | 1861-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0097952 | biography | Russel Botman | 1953-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0007834 | biography | Cassim Mohammed Bassa | 1925-1983 | – |
| 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 | – |
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of…
Russel Botman
Russel Botman was born on 18 October 1953 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His mother had supported his family…
Cassim Mohammed Bassa
Mohammed Cassim Bassa the estate agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of…
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…