Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009031 | biography | Dorothy Shanley | 1920-2001 | – |
| B-0009025 | biography | Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0009021 | biography | Dulcie Evonne September | 1935-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008927 | biography | Betty Radford | – | – |
| B-0008902 | biography | John Nyathi Pokela | 1922-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008889 | biography | Hector Pieterson | 1963-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008846 | biography | Albert Nzula | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008833 | biography | Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008747 | biography | Dr Hersheela Narsee | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008720 | biography | Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge | 1942-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008696 | biography | Richard Msimang | 1884-1933 | ✓ |
| B-0008695 | biography | Henry Selby Msimang | 1886-1982 | – |
| B-0008680 | biography | James “Sofasonke” Mpanza | 1889-1970 | – |
| B-0008670 | biography | Obed Tseko Motshabi | 1925 | – |
Dorothy Shanley
Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest…
Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the…
Dulcie Evonne September
Dulcie Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was born on the 20th August 1935 in Royal rd, Maitland…
Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a…
Betty Radford
Betty Radford was arrested after the 4 August 1946 miner’s strike, together with, among others, WH Andrews and Moses Kotane. She was the…
John Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In…
Hector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper…
Albert Nzula
Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in Herschel and at…
Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk,…
Dr Hersheela Narsee
Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai…
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) to Wilmot Goso…
Richard Msimang
Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of…
Henry Selby Msimang
Selby Msimang was born on 13 December 1886 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. He and his elder brother, Richard Msimang,were born to Joel…
James “Sofasonke” Mpanza
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township,…
Obed Tseko Motshabi
Born in 1925, Motshabi worked as a clerk. He took part in the 1944 Alexandra Township bus boycott movement and the shantytown movement…