Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008186 | biography | Frederick Timpson I’Ons | 1802-1887 | ✓ |
| B-0008189 | biography | Alexander Macaulay Jabavu | 1889-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0008194 | biography | Thamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali | 1955 | – |
| B-0008196 | biography | Robert Edward Jansen | 1949-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008204 | biography | Sir. Julius Jeppe | 1859-1929 | ✓ |
| B-0144638 | biography | David Ivon Jones | 1883-1924 | – |
| B-0008210 | biography | John David Rheinallt Jones | 1884-1953 | ✓ |
| B-0008208 | biography | J.J.R Jolobe | 1902-1976 | – |
| B-0008213 | biography | Mohamed Hajee Joosub | 1862-1944 | – |
| B-0008216 | biography | Archibald Campbell Jordan | 1906-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008214 | biography | Jan Willem Jordaan | 1948-2014 | – |
| B-0008218 | biography | Jack Joseph | 1927 | – |
| B-0008220 | biography | Piet Joubert | 1831-1900 | – |
| B-0008222 | biography | Milner Langa Kabane | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008236 | biography | Nell Kaye | 1912-1969 | – |
Frederick Timpson I’Ons
Frederick Timpson I'Ons was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding…
Alexander Macaulay Jabavu
Alexander Macaulay Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of John Tengo Jabavu. After studying at Lovedale,…
Thamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali
Jali was born Durban. He is a painter, sculptor and a graphic artist who studied at the Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, 1981-1982. He studied…
Robert Edward Jansen
Legendary Cape Town jazz musician, Robert Edward Jansen was born on 5 August 1949. The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of…
Sir. Julius Jeppe
Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to…
David Ivon Jones
John David Rheinallt Jones
John David Rheinallt Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued…
J.J.R Jolobe
James Ranisi Jolobe was best known for his collection of poems, Umyezo (1936). He also played a major role in the compilation and…
Mohamed Hajee Joosub
Joosub was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and…
Archibald Campbell Jordan
Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the…
Jan Willem Jordaan
Jordaan was born in Springs, Gauteng. He is a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, obtaining…
Jack Joseph
Born in 1927 Joseph was a photographer. He served two months' imprisonment during the Defiance Campaign for defying railway apartheid…
Piet Joubert
Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against the British…
Milner Langa Kabane
Milner Langa Kabane was born in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown. He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of…
Nell Kaye
Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and…