Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0099581 | biography | Michael Madimetja Teffo | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0099474 | biography | Job Patja Kekana | 1916 | ✓ |
| B-0099432 | biography | Michael Nkolo Maapola | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0098973 | biography | Durant Basi Sihlali | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0098965 | biography | Welcome Mandla Koboka | 1941-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0098784 | biography | Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza | 1938-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0098782 | biography | Robert Moffat | – | ✓ |
| B-0098638 | biography | Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa | 1941-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0097872 | biography | Günther Komnick | 1929 | – |
| B-0097085 | biography | Phaswane Mpe | 1970-2004 | – |
| B-0097055 | biography | Elza Miles (Botha) | 1938 | – |
| B-0096558 | biography | Willie Esterhuyse | 1936 | – |
| B-0096556 | biography | Margaret Gazo | 1918-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0096457 | biography | Graeme Pollock | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0096005 | biography | Frederik Bester Laubscher | 1927-2013 | – |
Michael Madimetja Teffo
Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne. The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly…
Job Patja Kekana
Jon Patja Kekana was born on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo…
Michael Nkolo Maapola
Michael Nkolo Maapola was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal, a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an…
Durant Basi Sihlali
Durant Basi Sihlali was born on 5 March 1935 in an industrial area, Germiston, Transvaal, now known as Gauteng Province. Due to harsh…
Welcome Mandla Koboka
Welcome Mandla Koboka was born in Johannesburg in 1941. At age twenty he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly…
Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat…
Robert Moffat
Robert Moffat was born on 21 December 1795 in Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were not wealthy. He was father-in-law to the…
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign…
Günther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived…
Phaswane Mpe
Phaswane Mpe was born and brought up in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane, Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for…
Elza Miles (Botha)
Elza Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours…
Willie Esterhuyse
Professor Willem Petrus Esterhuyse (Willie) Esterhuyse was born in 1936 in Laingsburg, Western Province (now Western Cape), on his father’s…
Margaret Gazo
Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918. She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were…
Graeme Pollock
Robert Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth…
Frederik Bester Laubscher
Frederik Bester Howard (Erik) Laubscher was born on 3 February 1927 in Tulbagh, in the Cape. His father was a Glasgow trained physician…