Biographies
169 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009083 | biography | Charlene Smith | – | – |
| B-0008207 | biography | Gail Johnson | – | – |
| B-0007914 | biography | Rev. James Arthur Calata | 1895-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0096731 | biography | Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa | 1921-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0148625 | biography | Cedric Radcliffe Mayson | 1927-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0067462 | biography | Doman | Unknown-1663 | – |
| B-0148811 | biography | Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0144759 | biography | David Patrick Russell | 1930s-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0144754 | biography | Raymond Basil van Staden | 1961-2010 | – |
| B-0068640 | biography | Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala | 1930 | – |
| B-0144717 | biography | Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa | 1939 | ✓ |
| B-0149238 | biography | Lex Mpati | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0149432 | biography | Judge Erns Jansen | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0149491 | biography | Cassim Mahomed Lakhi | 1915-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0149208 | biography | Eudy Simelane | 1977-2008 | ✓ |
Charlene Smith
A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto uprising the dead…
Gail Johnson
Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997…
Rev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and…
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three…
Cedric Radcliffe Mayson
Cedric Radcliffe Mayson was born July 16,1927 in London.After training and working briefly as an architect,he emigrated to South Africa as…
Doman
In about 1657 Doman, a Goring-haiqua Khoisan, was sent to Batavia to learn to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the…
Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
Justice Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang. Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in Goo-Mokgatha (Koffiekraal) village, north east of Zeerust, North…
David Patrick Russell
Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first…
Raymond Basil van Staden
Raymond Basil van Staden was born on 27 January 1961 at the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied Security Management,…
Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since…
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in…
Lex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him…
Judge Erns Jansen
Judge Erns Jansen was born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 June 1918. He was the son of Ernest Jansen, Minister of Native Affairs in the…
Cassim Mahomed Lakhi
Cassim Mahomed Lakhi was the youngest son of Mahomed Lakhi and his wife, Hawa Bibi, who were both born in India. They arrived in South…
Eudy Simelane
Eudy Simelane was born on 11 March 1977 in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (Gauteng). An active LGBTQI+ activist, she was one of the first…