Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0095122 | biography | Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney | 1888-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0095114 | biography | Kalushi Drake Koka | 1927-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0094714 | biography | Charles Nupen | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0094482 | biography | Alec Erwin | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0094271 | biography | Cijimpi Mnyandu | – | ✓ |
| B-0094070 | biography | Archie Mafeje | 1936-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0093805 | biography | Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata | – | ✓ |
| B-0086256 | biography | Sir Sydney Kentridge | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0080847 | biography | Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape | – | ✓ |
| B-0080678 | biography | Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba | 1950-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0080664 | biography | Mme Makwena Matlala | – | ✓ |
| B-0080454 | biography | Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0080452 | biography | Benjamin Johnson Langa | – | ✓ |
| B-0080308 | biography | Enver Hassim | 1995 | ✓ |
| B-0076114 | biography | Kaiphas Motsepe | 1960 | – |
Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney
Reverend Bernard Lazarus Emmanuel Sigamoney was a political activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade…
Kalushi Drake Koka
Kalushi Drake Koka was bornin Pietersburg on the 9th of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after completing his matric. In 1960,…
Charles Nupen
Charles Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying…
Alec Erwin
Alexander Erwin (Alec Erwin) was born on 17 January 1948 in Cape Town to Dennis and Rosamund Erwin. Alec, as he became known, matriculated…
Cijimpi Mnyandu
Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area,…
Archie Mafeje
Archibald (also known as ‘Archie’) Mafeje was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in…
Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata
Documentation related to Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt…
Sir Sydney Kentridge
Sydney Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1922. He matriculated in 1938 at the King Edward VII High School. In 1941, he obtained a BA…
Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape
Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) became invovled in…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, western Gauteng, in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four…
Mme Makwena Matlala
The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District,…
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the…
Enver Hassim
Enver Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His father made a living…
Kaiphas Motsepe