Biographies
459 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0093906 | biography | Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube | 1873-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0094630 | biography | Heidi Holland | 1947-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0096314 | biography | Penelope Jane Dunlop | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0096462 | biography | Elsie Nair | 1927-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0096630 | biography | Lebo Mathosa | 1977-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0096673 | biography | Pansy Tlakula | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0097303 | biography | Sheila Cussons | 1922-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0098663 | biography | Marlise Joubert | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0099923 | biography | Bisho Jarsa | – | – |
| B-0120967 | biography | Wangari Maathai | 1940-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0121281 | biography | Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0121532 | biography | Diana Mary Mitchell | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0122038 | biography | Diane Case | 1955 | – |
| B-0149211 | biography | Kewpie | 1942-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0149212 | biography | Julia Nicol | Unknown-2019 | ✓ |
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…
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…
Elsie Nair
Elsie Nair (nee Goldstone) was born in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1927. After completing her primary school education, she…
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…
Pansy Tlakula
Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate degree in law at the…
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…
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. Maathai is internationally renowned for her…
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…
Diane Case
Diane Case was born in Woodstock, Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family…
Kewpie
Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure from District Six. A gender fluid individual who identified by female pronouns, Kewpie was…
Julia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti…