Menu
✦ Contribute to SAHO

Biographies

Explore Biographies content from South African History Online, featuring articles, biographies, and resources.

Filter by Category

Franco Frescura
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Franco Frescura

Witwatersrand University SRC member, political detainee, cartoonist, architect, university lecturer, member of the ANC, ...

Read more
Harold Wolpe
Biography
Aug 07, 2019

Harold Wolpe

Member of the SACP and ANC, political detainee, lawyer, academic, sociologist, Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar ...

Read more
Dimitri Tsafendas
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Dimitri Tsafendas

Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.

Read more
Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothi...

Read more
Rowley Israel Arenstein
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Rowley Israel Arenstein

Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor,  member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advi...

Read more
Walter Sidney Felgate
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Walter Sidney Felgate

Political Activist

Read more
Lawrence Schlemmer
Biography
Jan 15, 2014

Lawrence Schlemmer

author, sociologist, political analyst, Professor, Dean of Social Sciences, Director of Centre for Social and Developmen...

Read more
Biography
Aug 27, 2020

Faith Gasa

Inkatha Freedom Party student activist, teacher, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member, IFP Secretary, IFP Women’s Brigade ...

Read more
Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
Biography
Jan 28, 2020

Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen

Norman Pietersen was an uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla. On 11 March, 1987 he was murdered by apartheid Riot Squad in N...

Read more
Dirk Johannes Coetzee
Biography
Apr 10, 2014

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

Commander of the covert SA Police unit based at Vlakplaas

Read more
Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
Biography
Aug 30, 2013

Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'

Member of Parliament. Vice Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, author, Recipient of the South Government's...

Read more
Hugh Lewin
Biography
Jan 17, 2019

Hugh Lewin

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...

Read more
Johann Christiaan Kriegler
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

Advocate, academic, judge of the Appellate Division and the Constitutional Court, Chair of the Electoral Commission and ...

Read more
Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
Biography
Sep 20, 2011

Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha

Teacher, founding member of the South African Native National Congress, member of the SANNC delegation to England in 191...

Read more
Leslie Schermbrucker
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Leslie Schermbrucker

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Read more

Contribute to Biographies

Help us expand our Biographies collection by contributing your knowledge and resources.

✦ Contribute Now