Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0064866 | biography | Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0064853 | biography | Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi | 1928-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0009259 | biography | Helen Zille | 1951 | ✓ |
| B-0009246 | biography | Madie Hall-Xuma | 1894-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0009191 | biography | Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa | 1923 | – |
| B-0009158 | biography | Peter Tsele | – | – |
| B-0009157 | biography | Dimitri Tsafendas | 14 January1918-1999 | – |
| B-0009139 | biography | T W Thibedi | – | – |
| B-0009130 | biography | Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche | 1941-2010 | – |
| B-0009095 | biography | Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0009073 | biography | Nana Sita | 1898-1969 | – |
| B-0009059 | biography | Professor Harold Jack Simons | 1907-1995 | – |
| B-0009039 | biography | Mark Shope | 1918-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0009031 | biography | Dorothy Shanley | 1920-2001 | – |
| B-0009025 | biography | Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale | 1953 | ✓ |
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to…
Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died…
Helen Zille
Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the…
Madie Hall-Xuma
A. B. Xuma's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women…
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in…
Peter Tsele
Dimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him…
T W Thibedi
Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the…
Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche
Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the…
Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric …
Nana Sita
Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in…
Professor Harold Jack Simons
Harold Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached…
Mark Shope
Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner…
Dorothy Shanley
Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest…
Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the…