Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068652 | biography | Baron Joachim van Plettenberg | 1739-1793 | – |
| B-0068650 | biography | Richard Ernest van der Ross | 1921 | – |
| B-0068642 | biography | Gladstone Xala Tshume | 1912-1957 | – |
| B-0068612 | biography | Elliot Tonjeni | 1895-1962 | – |
| B-0068562 | biography | Nehemiah Tile | 1885 | – |
| B-0068492 | biography | King Sobhuza I | 1795-1836 | – |
| B-0068451 | biography | Richard Gert Sibande | 1907-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0068448 | biography | Zacharia Solly Shoke | 1956 | – |
| B-0068446 | biography | Theophilus Shepstone | 1817-1893 | – |
| B-0068424 | biography | Chief Kgosi Sekonyela | 1804-1856 | ✓ |
| B-0068401 | biography | Emil Sachs | 1900-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0068395 | biography | Peter Engblom | – | – |
| B-0068314 | biography | Pauline Podbrey | – | – |
| B-0068294 | biography | Jacob Dumdum Nyaose | 1920 | – |
| B-0068292 | biography | Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi | 1920-1993 | ✓ |
Baron Joachim van Plettenberg
J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and Agatha…
Richard Ernest van der Ross
Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees…
Gladstone Xala Tshume
Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal…
Elliot Tonjeni
Elliot Tonjeni was born in 1895 in the Transkei and later went to Cape Town, where he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and…
Nehemiah Tile
Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal…
King Sobhuza I
Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and succeeded his father,…
Richard Gert Sibande
Richard Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one…
Zacharia Solly Shoke
Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his education at Orlando High School,…
Theophilus Shepstone
Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, and his wife…
Chief Kgosi Sekonyela
Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the…
Emil Sachs
Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks,…
Peter Engblom
He is a descendant of the original Scandinavian Missionaries who evangelised Zululand a century and a half ago. Of Lapp descent he was born…
Pauline Podbrey
Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in Durban in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her…
Jacob Dumdum Nyaose
Jacob Dumdum Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial…
Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
Ntsanwisi was born on 11 July 1920 at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family…