Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008860 | biography | Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad | 1912 | ✓ |
| B-0008782 | biography | Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle | 1922-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008768 | biography | Henry Reed Ngcayiya | 1863-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0008532 | biography | Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda | 1916-1993 | – |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008471 | biography | Emma Thandi Mashinini | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008455 | biography | Dikobe Ben Martins | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008442 | biography | Chief Maqoma | – | – |
| B-0008034 | biography | Bettie du Toit | 1910-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008008 | biography | King Dinuzulu | 1868-1913 | – |
| B-0008576 | biography | Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi | 1923-2004 | – |
| B-0068365 | biography | Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko | 1917 | – |
| B-0153096 | biography | Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn | 1939-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0153093 | biography | Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels | 1964-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0144739 | biography | Allan Kirkland Soga | – | – |
Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
Pahad left India for South Africa in 1919, but returned to India with his father in 1922 to continue with his educational studies. When…
Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the…
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school…
Charlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape,…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to…
Dikobe Ben Martins
"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most…
Chief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand…
Bettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her…
King Dinuzulu
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national…
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a…
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums…
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Dr…
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South…
Allan Kirkland Soga
Allan Kirkland Soga was among the founding members of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912, he was the youngest son of Tiyo Soga,…