Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008003 | biography | Bartolomeu Dias | 1450-1500 | ✓ |
| B-0141664 | biography | Marcus Solomon | 1939 | ✓ |
| B-0094335 | biography | Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel | 1946-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008211 | biography | Peter Jones | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0068701 | biography | Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0093813 | biography | Alfred Temba Qabula | 1942-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008348 | biography | Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla | 1948 | – |
| B-0147342 | biography | Dawood Ismail Cajee | 1899 | – |
| B-0068094 | biography | Dr Hassen (Ike) Mahomed Moosa | 1923 | – |
| B-0125661 | biography | Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo | 1947-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007867 | biography | Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier | 1909-2005 | – |
| B-0009071 | biography | Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0008472 | biography | Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) | 1935-2008 | – |
| B-0070373 | biography | Josiah Khiphusizi Jele | 1930 | ✓ |
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed…
Marcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil…
Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now…
Peter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he…
Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
Nkosinathi Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out…
Alfred Temba Qabula
Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father…
John Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of…
Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race…
Dawood Ismail Cajee
Dr Hassen (Ike) Mahomed Moosa
Born in 1923. Moosa was a medical practitioner. He was educated at Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town (UCT) and was active in the…
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In…
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued…
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg. She is the daughter of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, Walter…
Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei. After the…
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many…