Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ |
| 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 | – |
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…
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…
