Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007943 | biography | Sir Winston Spencer Churchill | 1874-1965 | – |
| B-0007948 | biography | Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee | 1931-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0008001 | biography | Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo | 1943-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008031 | biography | Barend Jacobus Du Plessis | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008030 | biography | Jeremiah W Dunjwa | 1935 | – |
| B-0008029 | biography | Sir Patrick Duncan | 1870-1943 | ✓ |
| B-0008033 | biography | Jacobus du Toit | 1847-1911 | – |
| B-0008049 | biography | Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus | 1918-1973 | – |
| B-0008094 | biography | Peter Hans Paul Gastrow | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0008118 | biography | Frances Herman Gow | 1887-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008125 | biography | Sir George Grey | 1812-1917 | – |
| B-0008168 | biography | Jan Hofmeyr | 1845-1909 | – |
| B-0008173 | biography | Nathaniel Impey Honono | 1908-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008189 | biography | Alexander Macaulay Jabavu | 1889-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0008204 | biography | Sir. Julius Jeppe | 1859-1929 | ✓ |
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxford, in 1874. He came to South Africa as a correspondent to the Morning Post…
Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child…
Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of…
Barend Jacobus Du Plessis
Barend Jacobus du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three…
Jeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of…
Sir Patrick Duncan
Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie (Aberdeen-shire). Duncan first educated in Edinburgh, he entered Balliol College…
Jacobus du Toit
Du Toit, a prolific author, wrote the first Afrikaans history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of the…
Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
Barend Jacobus Erasmus was born to Barend Jacobus Gerrit Wessel Erasmus and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in…
Peter Hans Paul Gastrow
Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened…
Frances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and…
Sir George Grey
George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War…
Jan Hofmeyr
A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a political moderate, he worked closely with Rhodes until the Jameson…
Nathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated…
Alexander Macaulay Jabavu
Alexander Macaulay Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of John Tengo Jabavu. After studying at Lovedale,…
Sir. Julius Jeppe
Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to…