Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0153063 | biography | Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa | 1967-2025 | – |
| B-0153052 | biography | Peter Randall | 1935-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0009218 | biography | David Joseph Webster | 1944-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0094976 | biography | Neville Wilson Curtis | 1947-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0141689 | biography | Mhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo | 1949-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0148068 | biography | Mapetla Frank Mohapi | 1947-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0122648 | biography | Olive Peace Landman | 1919 | – |
| B-0007820 | biography | Fikile Charles Bam | 1937-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0094958 | biography | Jonathan Clegg | 1953-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0141674 | biography | Moosa “Mosie” Moolla | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008114 | biography | Goolam H. Gool | 1905-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0008394 | biography | Miriam Makeba | 1932-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0141664 | biography | Marcus Solomon | 1939 | ✓ |
Thandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated…
Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa
Peter Randall
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the…
David Joseph Webster
David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later…
Neville Wilson Curtis
Neville Wilson Curtis was born on 16 October 1947, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born…
Mhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo
Mhlabunzima Maphumulo was born on 6th September,1949 Maqongqo distric of Kwazulu-Natal . At the age of 24, Maphumulo inherited the role of…
Mapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September…
Olive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence…
Fikile Charles Bam
Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on…
Jonathan Clegg
Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but his mother was from…
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful…
Goolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his…
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was…
Marcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil…