Biographies
248 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009120 | biography | Adelaide Frances Tambo | 1929-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0009119 | biography | Oliver Tambo | 1917-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0009089 | biography | Robert Sobukwe | 1924-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0009082 | biography | Joe Slovo | 1926-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0009020 | biography | Reginald (Reggie) September | 1923-2013 | – |
| B-0008936 | biography | Mewa Ramgobin | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008934 | biography | Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008897 | biography | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje | 1876-1932 | – |
| B-0008740 | biography | Billy Nair | 1929-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008737 | biography | Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo | 1860-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0008601 | biography | Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba | 1933 | – |
| B-0008538 | biography | Ismail Chota Meer | 1918-2000 | – |
| B-0008450 | biography | J B Marks | 1903-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008410 | biography | Clarence Mlami Makwetu | 1928-2016 | ✓ |
Adelaide Frances Tambo
Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St…
Oliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in…
Robert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of…
Joe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in…
Reginald (Reggie) September
Reginald September was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter…
Mewa Ramgobin
Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents arrived in Natal as indentured…
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of…
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who…
Billy Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy…
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of…
Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben…
Ismail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father…
J B Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei…
Clarence Mlami Makwetu
Clarence Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of…