Biographies
459 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008899 | biography | Mary Agard Pocock | 1886-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008813 | biography | Tu Nokwe | – | – |
| B-0008807 | biography | Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi | 1923 | ✓ |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0008559 | biography | Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0067935 | biography | Nombuso Mchunu | – | – |
| B-0067933 | biography | Letta Mbulu | 1942 | – |
| B-0008273 | biography | Linda Komape | 1949 | – |
| B-0008207 | biography | Gail Johnson | – | – |
| B-0150277 | biography | Dorothy Alexander | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0008083 | biography | Esther Franks | 1900 | – |
| B-0007974 | biography | Joan Hoskyn Davies | 1909-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0007884 | biography | Conny Braam | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0144792 | biography | Vivienne Ncakeni | – | ✓ |
| B-0148069 | biography | Nobuhle Hilary Mohapi | – | – |
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…
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…
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…
Nombuso Mchunu
On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union, while she looked for…
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…
Linda Komape
Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a…
Gail Johnson
Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997…
Dorothy 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…
Esther Franks
Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In…
Joan Hoskyn Davies
Davies was born on Robben Island in 1909, where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944…
Conny Braam
In 1971 Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti…
Vivienne Ncakeni
Vivienne Ncakeni was born in Brakpan, she was educated in the Transvaal and Natal and trained as a teacher. She returned to Brakpan to…
Nobuhle Hilary Mohapi
Nobuhle Hillary Mohapi, the widow of Mapetla Mohapi who died in detention, was banned for five years, in 1979, under the Internal Security…