Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008772 | biography | Lauretta Ngcobo | 1931-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0150368 | biography | Ntongela Masilela | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008559 | biography | Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0067933 | biography | Letta Mbulu | 1942 | – |
| B-0008428 | biography | Ernest Methuen Mancoba | 1904-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008744 | biography | Nesta Mathom Nala | 1940-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0150128 | biography | Harry Garuba | 1958-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0096731 | biography | Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa | 1921-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0009201 | biography | Andrew Clement Verster | 1937-2020 | – |
| B-0009027 | biography | Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala | 1941-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0096631 | biography | Nkosi Johnson | 1989-2001 | – |
| B-0008379 | biography | Judus Mahlangu | 1951 | ✓ |
| B-0097180 | biography | Keorapetse William Kgositsile | 1938-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0141677 | biography | Oliver Mtukudzi | 1952-2019 | ✓ |
Lauretta Ngcobo
Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer…
Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her…
Ntongela Masilela
Professor Ntongela Masilela was born on 9 December 1948 in Orlando West, Soweto, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), the eldest son of…
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. She has been writing and…
Letta Mbulu
Letta Mbulu was born in Soweto and, during her teens, she toured South Africa and then England with the musical King Kong. She returned to…
Ernest Methuen Mancoba
Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a…
Nesta Mathom Nala
Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At…
Harry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the…
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three…
Andrew Clement Verster
Andrew Vester was born in Johannesburg in 1937. He obtained a National Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London,…
Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala
Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a…
Nkosi Johnson
Nkosi Johnson was born Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother in a township on the east rand. When his mother became too ill to take care…
Judus Mahlangu
Judus Mahlangu was born on 14 January 1951 in Brakpan, Transvaal. Mahlangu matriculated at KwaPhakama High School in Springs in 1969 where…
Keorapetse William Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High…
Oliver Mtukudzi
Oliver Mtukudzi, also known as ‘Tuku’, was born on 22 September, 1952 in Highfield, Zimbabwe. He was the first born in a family of seven…