Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008110 | biography | John Gomas | – | – |
| B-0008095 | biography | Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe | 1899-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008087 | biography | D Fuyani | 1924 | – |
| B-0008052 | biography | Abdool Karrim Essak | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0008028 | biography | Sheena Duncan | 1932-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0007976 | biography | Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood | 1927 | – |
| B-0007956 | biography | Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco | 1919 | ✓ |
| B-0007916 | biography | Edwin Cameron | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0007910 | biography | Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia | – | ✓ |
| B-0007903 | biography | Julius Phumelele Busa | 1927 | – |
| B-0007900 | biography | Sonia Beryl Bunting | 1922-2001 | – |
| B-0007863 | biography | Isaac Bokala | 1929-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0007860 | biography | Molly Blackburn | 1930-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0007856 | biography | Diana (Di) Bishop | – | – |
| B-0007849 | biography | Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
John Gomas
John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the…
Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe
Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended…
D Fuyani
Born in 1924 Fuyani was a factory worker. He was the rural organiser of the African National Congress, and prominent in New Brighton, Port…
Abdool Karrim Essak
Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India. He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left…
Sheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated…
Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
Ayesha Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester, Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young…
Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to…
Edwin Cameron
Edwin Cameron was born on 15 February 1953 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling at Pretoria Boys’ High School and thanks to an Anglo…
Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia
Ahmed Mohamed Cachalia joined the Satyagraha struggle in the Transvaal. He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury…
Julius Phumelele Busa
Born in 1927 Busa was a trade unionist. He played an important part in organising textile workers in Worcester, and was an African National…
Sonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work…
Isaac Bokala
Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began…
Molly Blackburn
Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP…
Diana (Di) Bishop
Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town. She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic…
Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld
Pieter Beyleveld was born in 1916 in the Orange Free State and educated at farm schools. He joined the army at the outbreak of World War II…