Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008629 | biography | Molly Wolton | 1906-1947 | – |
| B-0008620 | biography | Popo Molefe | 1952 | – |
| B-0008617 | biography | Patrick Mosell Molaoa | 1925-1968 | – |
| B-0008604 | biography | Martha Mohlakoane | 1906 | – |
| B-0008588 | biography | Frank Modiba | 1909 | – |
| B-0008574 | biography | Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize | 1889-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0008564 | biography | Nomkhosi Mary Mini | 1959-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008562 | biography | Vuyisile Mini | 1920-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0008557 | biography | Raymond Mhlaba | 1920-2005 | – |
| B-0008556 | biography | David H Mgugunyeka | 1906 | – |
| B-0008546 | biography | John Xavier Merriman | 1841-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0008529 | biography | Peter McKenzie | 1955-2017 | – |
| B-0008526 | biography | Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy | 1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008508 | biography | Wiseman Mbambo | 1944 | – |
| B-0008504 | biography | C. J. Mayekiso | 1913-1969 | – |
Molly Wolton
Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant…
Popo Molefe
Molefe was born in 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was one of eight children, and spent most of his youth living with his aunt. His…
Patrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until…
Martha Mohlakoane
Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the African…
Frank Modiba
Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer…
Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver, died when Bertha was about four years old. After his…
Nomkhosi Mary Mini
Nomkhosi Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first…
Vuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and…
Raymond Mhlaba
Raymond Mhlaba was born in Mazoka village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his…
David H Mgugunyeka
Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities.
John Xavier Merriman
John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the…
Peter McKenzie
Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda…
Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy
Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape Town based club, Cape…
Wiseman Mbambo
He was born at Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a sculptor of figures and he works in wood. He attended school at the Umgeni Mission Station…
C. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He…