Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0149471 | biography | Daniel (Sampie) Malope | 1915 | – |
| B-0149494 | biography | Charles W H Kohler | 1862-1952 | ✓ |
| B-0149231 | biography | Charles Llewellyn | 1876-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0149491 | biography | Cassim Mahomed Lakhi | 1915-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0149483 | biography | C. S. Mabaso | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008717 | biography | Bheki Zacharia Mvulane | 1985 | – |
| B-0149418 | biography | Bertram Buxton Xiniwe | – | ✓ |
| B-0149441 | biography | Beauclerk Upington | 1873-1938 | ✓ |
| B-0099280 | biography | Mandla Langa | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008221 | biography | Elsa Joubert | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0122637 | biography | Abdullah Ibrahim | 1934 | – |
| B-0149589 | biography | Jon Lynton David Hrusa | 1965-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0149454 | biography | Iqbal Shaik Mohammed | 1958 | – |
| B-0148789 | biography | Harry Heinz Schwarz | 1924-2010 | – |
| B-0144666 | biography | Gopal Krishna Gokhale | – | – |
Daniel (Sampie) Malope
Born in 1915, Malope was a house painter. He joined the ANC Youth League in 1944 and was arrested in 1946 for assisting in the African mine…
Charles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine…
Charles Llewellyn
Charles Bennett (Buck) Llewellyn was born in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and black mother. Being of mixed–raced meant that…
Cassim Mahomed Lakhi
Cassim Mahomed Lakhi was the youngest son of Mahomed Lakhi and his wife, Hawa Bibi, who were both born in India. They arrived in South…
C. S. Mabaso
C. S. Mabaso was born and educated in Natal and worked at various times as a teacher, a shopkeeper, and a clerk. For about 20 years he also…
Bheki Zacharia Mvulane
Bheki Zacharia Mvulane died in detention on 29 March, 1985. A fellow-detainee of Mvulane said: "I saw a white policeman in Katlehong…
Bertram Buxton Xiniwe
Bertram Buxton Xiniwe was born in Middledrift in the Cape, the son of Paul Xiniwe, who subsequently became a well-known hotel operator in…
Beauclerk Upington
Beauclerk Upington, eldest son Sir Thomas Upington, was born on 29 March, 1873. He arrived in Cape Town at the age of one. He was educated…
Mandla Langa
Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, or KwaDukuza, a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province. He is the son of a…
Elsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the…
Abdullah Ibrahim
South African musician, Abdullah Ibrahim was born on the 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa. Born Adolph Johannes Brand, he…
Jon Lynton David Hrusa
Jon Lynton David Hrusa was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to…
Iqbal Shaik Mohammed
Mohammed Iqbal Shaik was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg on 26 August 1958. He became politically active when he was a student leader at…
Harry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz…
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Mr GK Gokhale was the Founder of the Servants of India Society in Poona. On Ghandi's invitiation, he Toured South Africa in October of 1912…