Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0067934 | biography | Robert John McBride | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0066324 | biography | James Kantor | 1927-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0009105 | biography | Harold Strachan | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008841 | biography | Siphiwe Nyanda | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008791 | biography | Carl Niehaus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008200 | biography | Abdulhay Jassat | 1934 | – |
| B-0008131 | biography | Josiah Tshangana Gumede | 1867-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0007992 | biography | Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0007855 | biography | Stephen Bantu Biko | 1946-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0141682 | biography | Stephanie Kemp | 1941-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0065300 | biography | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | 1918-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0150201 | biography | Deborah Jean Budlender | – | – |
| B-0007980 | biography | Edgar Arthur Deane | 1908 | ✓ |
Helene Marie Passtoors
Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in…
Robert John McBride
Robert John McBride was born on 6 July 1963 at the segregated Addington Hospital in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in the section set…
James Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was…
Harold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for…
Carl Niehaus
Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans…
Abdulhay Jassat
Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress…
Josiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and…
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother…
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai was born into an Indian family on 10 April 1932 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa…
Stephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in…
Stephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the…
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Childhood in the Eastern CapeNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief…
Deborah Jean Budlender
Deborah (Debbie) Budlender received a five-year banning order in late November 1976 alongside more than 20 other people working in the…
Edgar Arthur Deane
Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a…