Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0125321 | biography | Makhanda Nxele | 1780-1820 | ✓ |
| B-0125201 | biography | Sam Tambani | 1953-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0124732 | biography | Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo | 1870-1946 | – |
| B-0124047 | biography | Dora Nginza | 1891-1955 | ✓ |
| B-0124013 | biography | Thomas G. Karis | – | – |
| B-0123703 | biography | Sindiso Mfenyana | 1940 | – |
| B-0123686 | biography | King Sarhili kaHintsa | 1815-1892 | ✓ |
| B-0123170 | biography | Aubrey Levin | 1938 | – |
| B-0123071 | biography | Barend de Wet | 1956-2017 | – |
| B-0122965 | biography | Martin Tose | 1958-2004 | – |
| B-0122712 | biography | Pule Pheto | 1966 | – |
| B-0122696 | biography | Ray Berman | 1941 | – |
| B-0122673 | biography | Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino | 1851-1919 | – |
| B-0122647 | biography | Judith Mason | 1938-2016 | – |
| B-0122636 | biography | Adam Glasser | 1955 | – |
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…
Dora Nginza
Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and…
Sindiso Mfenyana
Background and Childhood Sindiso Mfenyana is descended from the Bhele clan, which is an offshoot of the Hlubi tribe. He traces his roots…
King Sarhili kaHintsa
King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856…
Aubrey Levin
Aubrey Levin was born in Johannesburg on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews…
Barend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the…
Martin Tose
The quiet and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth…
Pule Pheto
Pule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto, was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved…
Ray Berman
Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial…
Judith Mason
Born Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She…
Adam Glasser
Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family…