Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007867 | biography | Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier | 1909-2005 | – |
| B-0008086 | biography | Harold Athol Fugard | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0124457 | biography | Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender) | 1934-2021 | – |
| B-0008133 | biography | Sipho Gumede | 1952-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0009261 | biography | Michael Gagashe Zondi | 1926-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008432 | biography | Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi | 1967-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0122872 | biography | Sydney Alex Kumalo | 1935-1988 | – |
| B-0149743 | biography | Sandile Dikeni | 1966-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008443 | biography | Eugene Marais | 1871-1936 | – |
| B-0095153 | biography | Pieter Dirk-Uys | 1945 | – |
| B-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149590 | biography | Nomhle Nkonyeni | 1942-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008820 | biography | Makhaya Ntini | 1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008349 | biography | Noria Mabasa | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0066387 | biography | Mads Nørgaard | 1987 | – |
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued…
Harold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father…
Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now…
Sipho Gumede
Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a…
Michael Gagashe Zondi
Michael Zondi was born on 10 March 1926 in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at…
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art…
Sydney Alex Kumalo
Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded…
Sandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism…
Eugene Marais
Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the…
Pieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School…
Dorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother,…
Nomhle Nkonyeni
Nomhle Nkonyeni was born on 9 April 1942 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. She started her acting career at the age of 19…
Makhaya Ntini
Makhaya Ntini was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United…
Noria Mabasa
Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year,…
Mads Nørgaard
Danish documentary photographer and open source software developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her…