Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0064876 | biography | John James Issel | 1946-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0064875 | biography | Dr Essop Essak Jassat | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0064868 | biography | Lutchmee Marie | 1923 | – |
| B-0064866 | biography | Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0064853 | biography | Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi | 1928-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0009259 | biography | Helen Zille | 1951 | ✓ |
| B-0009246 | biography | Madie Hall-Xuma | 1894-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0009191 | biography | Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa | 1923 | – |
| B-0009157 | biography | Dimitri Tsafendas | 14 January1918-1999 | – |
| B-0009139 | biography | T W Thibedi | – | – |
| B-0009130 | biography | Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche | 1941-2010 | – |
| B-0009073 | biography | Nana Sita | 1898-1969 | – |
| B-0009059 | biography | Professor Harold Jack Simons | 1907-1995 | – |
| B-0009039 | biography | Mark Shope | 1918-1998 | ✓ |
Enoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire,…
John James Issel
John James Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town. At a tender age, he worked on a…
Dr Essop Essak Jassat
Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents…
Lutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic…
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to…
Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died…
Helen Zille
Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the…
Madie Hall-Xuma
A. B. Xuma's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women…
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in…
Dimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him…
T W Thibedi
Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the…
Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche
Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the…
Nana Sita
Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in…
Professor Harold Jack Simons
Harold Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached…
Mark Shope
Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner…