Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0094630 | biography | Heidi Holland | 1947-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0096314 | biography | Penelope Jane Dunlop | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0007975 | biography | Lionel Davis | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0096630 | biography | Lebo Mathosa | 1977-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0097303 | biography | Sheila Cussons | 1922-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0098663 | biography | Marlise Joubert | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0099923 | biography | Bisho Jarsa | – | – |
| B-0121281 | biography | Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0121532 | biography | Diana Mary Mitchell | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150196 | biography | Stella Nyanzi | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0009200 | biography | Jean van der Poel | 1904-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008988 | biography | Magdalena Gertruide Sauer | 1890-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0008899 | biography | Mary Agard Pocock | 1886-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008813 | biography | Tu Nokwe | – | – |
| B-0008807 | biography | Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi | 1923 | ✓ |
Heidi Holland
Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother. When she was…
Penelope Jane Dunlop
Penelope Jane Dunlop (P.J. Powers) was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 16 July 1960. She chose PJ Powers as her stage name using her…
Lionel Davis
Lionel Bazil Davis was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for…
Lebo Mathosa
Lebo Mathosa was born in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family…
Sheila Cussons
Sheila Cussons was born at the Moravian Missionary Station near Piketberg, Western Cape. She matriculated at Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria,…
Marlise Joubert
Marlise Joubert was born in Elim (near Levubu), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). She grew up in Warmbaths (Bela Bela) and has…
Bisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a…
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her…
Diana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous…
Stella Nyanzi
Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of…
Jean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape…
Magdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly…
Mary Agard Pocock
Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four…
Tu Nokwe
Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer…
Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi
Nkosi became the first Black matron in the Natal Provincial Administration and in KwaZulu-Natal. Her decision to nurse was motivated by a…