Biographies
462 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0064873 | biography | Freda Levson | 1911-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0067163 | biography | Maggie Mikula | 1941-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0067467 | biography | Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0067991 | biography | Kate Dinkwetsi Molale | 1928-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068096 | biography | Florence Mophosho | 1921-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068103 | biography | Joan Morice | 1904 | – |
| B-0068250 | biography | Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela | – | – |
| B-0068309 | biography | Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay | 1908-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0085118 | biography | Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang | 1940-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0068680 | biography | Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri) | 1920-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0068704 | biography | Madi Gray | – | ✓ |
| B-0069428 | biography | Johanna Catharina Cornelius | 1912-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0071936 | biography | Ilse Naude | 1913-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0074795 | biography | Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase | 1931-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0079873 | biography | Dorothy Hazel Alexander | 1938 | ✓ |
Freda Levson
Freda Levson was born on 21 November 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her father was a prominent physician in Johannesburg. She was educated…
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…
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided…
Kate Dinkwetsi Molale
Kate Dinkwetsi Molale was born in 1928 and died in 1980 after a car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the…
Florence Mophosho
Florence Mophosho was born in 1921 Alexander Township, Johannesburg. She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a…
Joan Morice
Morice, South Africa’s first qualified veterinarian, was born in Barberton in 1904. She completed the first two years of pre-veterinary…
Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela
While in exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From…
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi Naidoo, was four years old when her family moved…
Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding…
Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg. She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at…
Madi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who…
Johanna Catharina Cornelius
Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was very nationalistic, with…
Ilse Naude
Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near Caledon. After completing secondary education she…
Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
Nomava Eslinah Shangase was born in Pondoland on 9 May 1931. Shangase qualified as a nurse at King Edward Hospital in Durban. As a nurse,…
Dorothy Hazel Alexander
Dorothy Alexander was born on 7 August 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, the third of six children[1]. One of her siblings was…