Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008407 | biography | Cecilia Makiwane | 1880-1919 | – |
| B-0008435 | biography | Anna Victoria Mangena | 1885-1961 | – |
| B-0008511 | biography | Elizabeth Mbatha | 1950 | – |
| B-0008578 | biography | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008595 | biography | Connie Mofokeng | – | – |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008756 | biography | Jeannette Ndhlovu | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0008810 | biography | Jeanie Noel | 1942 | – |
| B-0008849 | biography | Kate O’Regan | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0009063 | biography | Margaret Singana | 1938-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0009128 | biography | Anna Tempo | – | – |
| B-0009142 | biography | Jo Thorpe | 1921-1995 | – |
| B-0009199 | biography | Leonora van den Heever | 1926 | ✓ |
| B-0009198 | biography | Rosalie van der Gucht | – | – |
| B-0009212 | biography | Dr. Susan Vosloo | – | – |
Cecilia Makiwane
Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a teacher…
Anna Victoria Mangena
She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal,…
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…
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was born on 3rd November 1955 in Claremont, Durban in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She matriculated from Ohlange High…
Connie Mofokeng
Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the Soweto uprising. After the uprising she was…
Elizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John…
Jeannette Ndhlovu
Jeannette Ndhlovu was born on 2nd October 1953 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Ndhlovu obtained her primary and…
Jeanie Noel
Jeanie Noel was born in Durban as one of twelve children, however her family was fortunate enough to own property, something that was not…
Kate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and…
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…
Anna Tempo
Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner…
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…
Leonora van den Heever
Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein. She went on to complete her MA in English at the…
Rosalie van der Gucht
Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech…
Dr. Susan Vosloo
Dr Vosloo was South Africa's first female heart surgeon. She joined the heart team at the Groote Schuur hospital in 1984, and completed her…