Biographies
4,760 records
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | – |
| B-0125661 | biography | Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo | 1947-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007867 | biography | Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier | 1909-2005 | – |
| B-0009071 | biography | Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0088574 | biography | Bantu Holomisa | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0149616 | biography | Adelaine Florence Hain | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149743 | biography | Sandile Dikeni | 1966-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0094076 | biography | Evelina de Bruin | 1933-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0141673 | biography | Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng | 1918-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008137 | biography | Alcott Skei Gwentshe | 1920-1996 | ✓ |
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…
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In…
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued…
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg. She is the daughter of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, Walter…
Bantu Holomisa
Major General (Retired) Bantubonke (Bantu) Harrington Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief…
Adelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died…
Sandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism…
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was…
Evelina de Bruin
Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her…
Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to…
Dorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother,…
Alcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe…