Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007840 | biography | Sathima Bea Benjamin | 1936-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007946 | biography | Hestrie Cloete | 1978 | ✓ |
| B-0007960 | biography | Hester Elizabeth Cornelius | 1907-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0007984 | biography | Ethel de Keyser | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008135 | biography | Thelma Gutsche | 1915-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0008151 | biography | Ellen Phyllis Hellman | 1908-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008193 | biography | Zubeida Jaffer | 1958 | – |
| B-0008298 | biography | Constance Stuart Larrabee | 1914-2000 | – |
| B-0008511 | biography | Elizabeth Mbatha | 1950 | – |
| B-0009063 | biography | Margaret Singana | 1938-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0009142 | biography | Jo Thorpe | 1921-1995 | – |
| B-0067163 | biography | Maggie Mikula | 1941-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0084116 | biography | Mzwakhe Mbuli | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0089634 | biography | Dora Taylor | 1899-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0093906 | biography | Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube | 1873-1917 | ✓ |
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up…
Hestrie Cloete
Hestrie Cloete (née Storbeck) was born in 1978 in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She grew up in the small town of Coligny, Western…
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her family was very…
Ethel de Keyser
As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a marriage that…
Thelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but…
Ellen Phyllis Hellman
Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to…
Zubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's…
Constance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. Constance…
Elizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's…
Margaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to…
Jo Thorpe
Jo Thorpe was born in 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town. She grew up in Mooi River and completed her high school education at Pietermaritzburg…
Maggie Mikula
Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959. She then went on to…
Mzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi…
Dora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who…
Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
Nokutela Dube was the first wife of Reverend John Langalibalele Dube, the first President General of the South African Native National…