Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008519 | biography | Victor V. T. Mbobo | – | ✓ |
| B-0141696 | biography | Tsepo Tiisetso Letlaka | 1925-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0149485 | biography | Theodore B. Lujiza | – | ✓ |
| B-0149438 | biography | Thabani Derrick Zulu | 1950 | – |
| B-0149447 | biography | Percy Peter Qoboza | 1938-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0149446 | biography | Percival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn | 1949-2007 | – |
| B-0149499 | biography | Penny Heyns | 1974 | – |
| B-0149473 | biography | P. S. J. Manana | 1913 | – |
| B-0149509 | biography | Mono Badela | 1937-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0149439 | biography | Sheik Yusuf | 1626-1699 | ✓ |
| B-0149518 | biography | Shadrack Fuba Zibi | 1879-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0149472 | biography | Self Mampuru | 1908-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0149437 | biography | Sarah Gertrude Holland | 1952-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0141693 | biography | Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala | 1877-Unknown | ✓ |
| B-0149464 | biography | Sammy Marks | 1843-1920 | – |
Victor V. T. Mbobo
Victor V. T. Mbobo was born in the Cape, he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in…
Tsepo Tiisetso Letlaka
Tsepo Tiisetso Letlaka was born in 1925 in the Transkei,Cofimvaba, where his parents were both teachers, he studied at St. John's College,…
Theodore B. Lujiza
Theodore B. Lujiza was born in 1886 and educated at Lovedale, he was working in a bank in East London when Clements Kadalie arrived there…
Thabani Derrick Zulu
He was born in Eshowe. He attended Ndaleni Art School in 1971 and continued Fine Art studies at the University of South Africa receiving a…
Percy Peter Qoboza
Qoboza was born on 17 January 1938. He grew up in Sophiatown, which was a hybrid township of cinemas, shebeens, jazz dens, political…
Percival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
Born in Cape Town on September 25, 1949, Percival Sonn, universally known as Percy, dedicated much of his life to the development of the…
Penny Heyns
Penny Heyns was born on 8 November 1974 to a deeply religious family in Springs, Gauteng Province. She attended the local primary school…
P. S. J. Manana
Born in 1913, Manana was a businessman. He played a leading role in campaigns against higher rentals and passes in Durban.
Mono Badela
The biography below is from a tribute to Badela written by Prof Guy Berger, the head of the department of Journalism and Media Studies at…
Sheik Yusuf
Sheik Yusuf, ruler of Gowa on the Islands of Celebes in South East Asia, was born in 1626. He was also the brother of the Sultan of…
Shadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated…
Self Mampuru
Self Mampuru was born in 1908 into the leading family of chiefs of Sekhukhuneland. In the 1930s in Johannesburg he met William Ballinger,…
Sarah Gertrude Holland
Sarah Gertrude Mary Christina Holland was born on 11 April 1952, in Durban. On 9 February 2010, Holland’s house was destroyed by a fire…
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth…
Sammy Marks
The entrepreneur Samuel Marks was born in Lithuania in 1843. He arrived on African shores in 1868 where he began his career by hawking…