Biographies
152 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0125869 | biography | Jessie Yasmin Duarte | 1953-2022 | ✓ |
| B-0125558 | biography | Gerald Patrick Kearney | 1942-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0099279 | biography | Saleem Badat | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0096739 | biography | Nomvula Paula Mokonyane | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0096411 | biography | Zuleika Sarojini Christopher | 1924-1992 | – |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
| B-0094345 | biography | Eric Mtshali | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0093139 | biography | Jennifer Schreiner | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0085150 | biography | Mafika Pascal Gwala | 1946-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0083813 | biography | Mildred Lesiea | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0082944 | biography | Roy Padayachie | 1950-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0081284 | biography | Joseph Royeppen | – | – |
| B-0080342 | biography | Rica Hodgson | 1920-2018 | – |
| B-0078551 | biography | Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo | – | – |
| B-0076346 | biography | Hugh Lewin | 1939-2019 | ✓ |
Jessie Yasmin Duarte
Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Julie and…
Gerald Patrick Kearney
Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic…
Saleem Badat
Dr Saleem Badat holds Bachelors and Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher…
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She is the youngest in a family of 12…
Zuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood…
Violet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet…
Eric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid…
Jennifer Schreiner
Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else…
Mafika Pascal Gwala
Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was…
Mildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area…
Roy Padayachie
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study…
Joseph Royeppen
in 1910, Joseph Royeppen, a Cambridge University graduate and a barrister, and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to…
Rica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the…
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban,…
Hugh Lewin
Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university…