Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0088575 | biography | Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo | 1928-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0073091 | biography | Vuyani Mabaxa | 1967-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0068299 | biography | Dawood Parker | 1936-2009 | – |
| B-0125334 | biography | Isaac Williams Wauchope | 1852-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0068300 | biography | Ahmed Ebrahim Patel | 1924 | – |
| B-0068243 | biography | James D. Ngojo | – | – |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0068307 | biography | Frank A. Pendla | – | – |
| B-0067743 | biography | Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long | 1891-1922 | – |
| B-0096273 | biography | Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa | – | – |
| B-0073992 | biography | Petros Molefe | 1924-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0068237 | biography | Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo | 1931 | – |
| B-0148562 | biography | John Carneson | – | – |
| B-0064874 | biography | Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota | 1928-2009 | – |
| B-0068727 | biography | Gerrit Viljoen | 1926-2009 | ✓ |
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his…
Vuyani Mabaxa
Vuyani Mabaxa grew up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union …
Dawood Parker
Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role in local civic affairs. He was a leading voice…
Isaac Williams Wauchope
The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi described Isaac Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in…
Ahmed Ebrahim Patel
Born 1924. Agent. Key organiser since 1939 of the Transvaal Indian Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous…
James D. Ngojo
James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of…
King Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared…
Frank A. Pendla
Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in…
Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
Samuel Alfred Long was born in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away…
Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa
Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined…
Petros Molefe
Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no…
Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
Born in Natal in 1931, he studied at Adams College and Ohlange Institute, where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a…
John Carneson
Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson…
Gerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was…