Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0122648 | biography | Olive Peace Landman | 1919 | – |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008863 | biography | Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0007820 | biography | Fikile Charles Bam | 1937-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0096276 | biography | Connie September | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0094958 | biography | Jonathan Clegg | 1953-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0141674 | biography | Moosa “Mosie” Moolla | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008288 | biography | Mazisi Raymond Kunene | 1930-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0068484 | biography | Ben Skosana | 1947 | – |
| B-0125265 | biography | Julius Nyerere | 1922-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008114 | biography | Goolam H. Gool | 1905-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0007911 | biography | Azhar Cachalia | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008121 | biography | Oupa Joshua Gqozo | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0007908 | biography | Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi | 1906-1980 | ✓ |
Olive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence…
Frantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family…
Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953 Durban. She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone…
Fikile Charles Bam
Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on…
Connie September
Cornelia “Connie” September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would send her for…
Jonathan Clegg
Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but his mother was from…
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful…
Mazisi Raymond Kunene
Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his…
Ben Skosana
Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued…
Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere was born on the 13th of April 1922 in Butiama village, next to Lake Victoria, in Tanganyika (name given to the British…
Goolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his…
Azhar Cachalia
Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in Benoni, Gauteng province,…
Oupa Joshua Gqozo
Joshua Oupa Gqozo was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled labourer…
Peter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919…
Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee…