Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068243 | biography | James D. Ngojo | – | – |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0068307 | biography | Frank A. Pendla | – | – |
| B-0067743 | biography | Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long | 1891-1922 | – |
| B-0073992 | biography | Petros Molefe | 1924-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0068237 | biography | Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo | 1931 | – |
| B-0148562 | biography | John Carneson | – | – |
| B-0064874 | biography | Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota | 1928-2009 | – |
| B-0068727 | biography | Gerrit Viljoen | 1926-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0068536 | biography | S. S. Tema | – | – |
| B-0064851 | biography | Ian Mkhize | 1941-2011 | – |
| B-0068553 | biography | James M. Thaele | 1888-1948 | – |
| B-0073075 | biography | Ben Khoapa | – | – |
| B-0068545 | biography | Stephen Tefu | 1910 | – |
| B-0068549 | biography | Mike Terry | 1947-2008 | – |
James D. Ngojo
James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of…
King Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared…
Frank A. Pendla
Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in…
Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
Samuel Alfred Long was born in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away…
Petros Molefe
Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no…
Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
Born in Natal in 1931, he studied at Adams College and Ohlange Institute, where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a…
John Carneson
Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson…
Gerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was…
S. S. Tema
S. S. Tema was a Dutch Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers'…
Ian Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated…
James M. Thaele
James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about…
Ben Khoapa
Ben Khoapa first became interested in politics while a student at a boarding school in Lesotho. This continued when he later went to study…
Stephen Tefu
Stephen Tefu was born about 1910, he was recruited to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Pretoria at a time when the party was…
Mike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded…