Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ |
| B-0094335 | biography | Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel | 1946-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008348 | biography | Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla | 1948 | – |
| B-0147342 | biography | Dawood Ismail Cajee | 1899 | – |
| B-0008279 | biography | Antjie Krog | 1952 | – |
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…
Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now…
Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race…
Dawood Ismail Cajee
Antjie Krog
Antjie was born on 23 October 1952 on a farm in the Free State. She completed her BA degree with Afrikaans (cum laude), Philosophy (cum…