Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008516 | biography | Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki | 1942 | – |
| B-0008487 | biography | Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji | 1922-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008481 | biography | Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima | 1915-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0008413 | biography | Nise Bulelwa Malange | – | ✓ |
| B-0008358 | biography | Samora Machel | 1933-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008357 | biography | Graça Simbine Machel | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008317 | biography | Anthony James (Tony) Leon | 1956 | – |
| B-0008250 | biography | President Seretse Khama | 1921-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008233 | biography | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008223 | biography | Clements Kadalie | 1896-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0008192 | biography | John Tengo Jabavu | 1859-1921 | ✓ |
| B-0008190 | biography | Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu | 1885-1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008169 | biography | Barbara Anne Hogan | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008092 | biography | Sushila Gandhi | 1907-1988 | – |
| B-0008051 | biography | Suliman Moosa Esakjee | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern…
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling…
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African…
Nise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young…
Samora Machel
Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents…
Graça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist…
Anthony James (Tony) Leon
Tony Leon was born on 15 December 1956 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was born to Sheila Schulz and Ramon Leon. His father was an…
President Seretse Khama
Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama…
Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern…
Clements Kadalie
Clements Kadalie was born in April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently…
John Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His parents, though poor, were…
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu, a…
Barbara Anne Hogan
Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and…
Sushila Gandhi
Sushila Mashruwallah was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the…
Suliman Moosa Esakjee
Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its…