Biographies
106 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0153021 | biography | Theresa Solomon | 1945-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0125899 | biography | Mmusi Aloysias Maimane | 1980 | ✓ |
| B-0125809 | biography | Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0125716 | biography | Ronald (Ronnie) Britten | 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0120811 | biography | Devikarani Priscilla Jana | 1943-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0096365 | biography | Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex' | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0094430 | biography | Billy Modise | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0080477 | biography | Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada | 1922-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0079879 | biography | Frank Anthony | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0078948 | biography | Robert Cedric Wilcox | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0072386 | biography | Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba | 1971 | ✓ |
| B-0068317 | biography | Vera Ponnen | 1915-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0007791 | biography | William H. "Bill" Andrews | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0095228 | biography | Hannah Margaret Stanton | 1913-1993 | ✓ |
Theresa Solomon
Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945. Solomon lived in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where she worked…
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane was born in Krugersdorp, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 June 1980 to Ethel and Simon Maimane but grew up in…
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity…
Devikarani Priscilla Jana
Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), to a middle class Indian family.[i] From an…
Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his…
Billy Modise
Billy Modise was born on 8 December 1930 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He received an Anglican scholarship…
Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada
Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)…
Frank Anthony
Robert Cedric Wilcox
Robert Cedric Wilcox - a member of the NEUM/Unity Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s Democratic Union of…
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal. Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and…
Vera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she…
William H. "Bill" Andrews
William H."Bill" Andrews was born in Suffolk, England, on 20 March in 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13…
Achmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in…
Hannah Margaret Stanton
Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom…