Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008440 | biography | Matome Maponya | 1949-2004 | – |
| B-0008239 | biography | Johannes Jane Tane Kekana | 1840-1887 | – |
| B-0007796 | biography | Ruth Elizabeth Arndt | 1890-1841 | – |
| B-0141676 | biography | Hassim Mohamed Seedat | 1930-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0141668 | biography | Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0141660 | biography | Amos Ndwalane | – | ✓ |
| B-0144644 | biography | Charles Rawden Maclean (John Ross) | 1815-1880 | – |
| B-0125761 | biography | Percival Mdala | – | ✓ |
| B-0125758 | biography | Stephen Marais | 1956 | – |
| B-0125519 | biography | Vondela Landingwe | 2018 | – |
| B-0125398 | biography | DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels) | 1968 | ✓ |
| B-0125363 | biography | Athol Edwin Thorne | 1921-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0125321 | biography | Makhanda Nxele | 1780-1820 | ✓ |
| B-0125201 | biography | Sam Tambani | 1953-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0124732 | biography | Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo | 1870-1946 | – |
Matome Maponya
Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an…
Johannes Jane Tane Kekana
Johannes Jane Tane Kekana was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo…
Ruth Elizabeth Arndt
Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the government on the…
Hassim Mohamed Seedat
Hassim Seedat, was born in Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1930. His family came to Newcastle as traders in the late 1880s. He…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children…
Amos Ndwalane
Struggle veteran Amos Ndwalane, who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990,…
Charles Rawden Maclean (John Ross)
Percival Mdala
Percival Mdala grew up near King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape. He came to the Garden Route in 1956, where he found work as a gardener…
Stephen Marais
Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was…
Vondela Landingwe
Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby…
DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed…
Athol Edwin Thorne
Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family soon moved to Durban where he attended school and…
Makhanda Nxele
Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for…
Sam Tambani
Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani…
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born…