Biographies
169 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007944 | biography | Martha Helena Cillie | 1866-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008067 | biography | Mary Eveline Fincken | 1882-1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008810 | biography | Jeanie Noel | 1942 | – |
| B-0008849 | biography | Kate O’Regan | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0009128 | biography | Anna Tempo | – | – |
| B-0009199 | biography | Leonora van den Heever | 1926 | ✓ |
| B-0009198 | biography | Rosalie van der Gucht | – | – |
| B-0067467 | biography | Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0084122 | biography | Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk | 1946 | – |
| B-0094630 | biography | Heidi Holland | 1947-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0099923 | biography | Bisho Jarsa | – | – |
| B-0149211 | biography | Kewpie | 1942-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0150196 | biography | Stella Nyanzi | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0068227 | biography | Reverend Beyers Naudé | 1915 | – |
| B-0009237 | biography | Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood | 1874-1965 | ✓ |
Martha Helena Cillie
Martha Helena Cillié was born on 22 April 1866 in Wellington (SA). She was the daughter of Charl Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena…
Mary Eveline Fincken
Mary Eveline Fincken was born on 27 April 1882 in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken…
Jeanie Noel
Jeanie Noel was born in Durban as one of twelve children, however her family was fortunate enough to own property, something that was not…
Kate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and…
Anna Tempo
Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner…
Leonora van den Heever
Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein. She went on to complete her MA in English at the…
Rosalie van der Gucht
Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech…
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided…
Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk was born in Vredendal, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days…
Heidi Holland
Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother. When she was…
Bisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a…
Kewpie
Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure from District Six. A gender fluid individual who identified by female pronouns, Kewpie was…
Stella Nyanzi
Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of…
Reverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general…
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown,…