Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0069129 | biography | Ambrose Makiwane | – | ✓ |
| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0068654 | biography | Jan van Riebeeck | 1619-1677 | ✓ |
| B-0068521 | biography | Isaac Bangani Tabata | 1909 | ✓ |
| B-0068511 | biography | Professor Raymond Suttner | 1945 | – |
| B-0068468 | biography | Jean Sinclair | 1908-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0068453 | biography | David Sibeko | 1938-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0068443 | biography | Fatima Seedat | 1922-2003 | – |
| B-0068437 | biography | Sydney Shall | 1932 | – |
| B-0068317 | biography | Vera Ponnen | 1915-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0068246 | biography | Jordan Kush Ngubane | 1917-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068220 | biography | James Madhlope Phillips | 1919-1987 | – |
| B-0068163 | biography | Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker | 1920-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0068157 | biography | Shulamith Muller | 1922-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0068143 | biography | Saul Msane | 1856-1919 | – |
Ambrose Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in Soweto. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. This, coupled…
Arnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner…
Jan van Riebeeck
Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (Jan van Riebeeck) was born on 21 April 1619 in Culemborg, Netherlands to a surgeon. He spent his…
Isaac Bangani Tabata
Isaac Bangani Tabata (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale…
Professor Raymond Suttner
Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the…
Jean Sinclair
Jean Sinclair was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion protested against the National Party’s…
David Sibeko
David Maphgumzana Sibeko was born on 26 August 1938 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He received his schooling at the St Cyprian's Anglican…
Fatima Seedat
Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High school up to what was standard 8 in those…
Sydney Shall
Sydney Shall was born 1932. Volunteer in the Defiance Campaign. Active in student affairs at University of the Witwatersrand
Vera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she…
Jordan Kush Ngubane
Jordan Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in…
James Madhlope Phillips
James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. His father died while he was still young and this had…
Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union…
Shulamith Muller
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as…
Saul Msane
Msane was born in Natal, but very little is known about his early life. He was educated at the Edendale Mission in Pietermaritzburg, and at…