Biographies
282 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009119 | biography | Oliver Tambo | 1917-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0009089 | biography | Robert Sobukwe | 1924-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0009082 | biography | Joe Slovo | 1926-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0009066 | biography | Jaydew Nasib Singh | 1920 | ✓ |
| B-0009065 | biography | Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh | 1917-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0009064 | biography | Debi Singh | 1913-1970 | ✓ |
| B-0009054 | biography | Annie Silinga | 1910-1984 | – |
| B-0008976 | biography | Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs | 1935 | – |
| B-0008934 | biography | Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008740 | biography | Billy Nair | 1929-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008737 | biography | Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo | 1860-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0008734 | biography | Phyllis Naidoo | 1928-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008731 | biography | H. A. Naidoo | 1915-1971 | ✓ |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008591 | biography | Thandi Modise | 1959 | ✓ |
Oliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in…
Robert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of…
Joe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in…
Jaydew Nasib Singh
Jaydew Nasib Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the…
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh was born in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and…
Debi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary…
Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at…
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of…
Billy Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy…
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of…
Phyllis Naidoo
Phyllis Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and…
H. A. Naidoo
H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active…
Rahima Moosa
Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. As a teenager, Rahima…
Thandi Modise
Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West. Her father,…