Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008305 | biography | Chris Ledochowski | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008303 | biography | Lesley Lawson | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008291 | biography | Alex la Guma | 1925-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008242 | biography | William Kentridge | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008199 | biography | Fanie Jason | 1953 | – |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008106 | biography | David Goldblatt | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008102 | biography | Graham Goddard | 1956 | – |
| B-0008091 | biography | Manilal Gandhi | 1892-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008078 | biography | Lionel Forman | 1926-1959 | ✓ |
| B-0007997 | biography | Gille De Vlieg | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0007958 | biography | Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia | 1940-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0007955 | biography | Ernest Cole | 1940-1990 | – |
| B-0007921 | biography | Fred Carneson | 1920-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0007899 | biography | Brian Percy Bunting | 1920-2008 | ✓ |
Chris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non…
Lesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended…
Alex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the…
William Kentridge
"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art …
Fanie Jason
Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move…
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore…
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of…
Graham Goddard
Graham Goddard was born in 1956 in Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived…
Manilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with…
Lionel Forman
Born in 1926 in Rosettenville Forman was a barrister and a journalist. He was author of the first book on the trial, 'You Can Hang For…
Gille De Vlieg
Gille de Vlieg was born Gillian Ruth Hemson in Plymouth, England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in…
Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN) on 2 August 1940. His grandparents had come…
Ernest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was…
Fred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the…
Brian Percy Bunting
Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of Sidney Percival…