Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | – | – |
| B-0153063 | biography | Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa | 1967-2025 | – |
| B-0121659 | biography | Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo | 1936-1988 | – |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007772 | biography | Feroza Adam | 1961-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0153052 | biography | Peter Randall | 1935-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
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,…
Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city…
Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both…
Feroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High…
Peter Randall
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the…
Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province)…
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West,…