Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0088574 | biography | Bantu Holomisa | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008992 | biography | Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers | 1915-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0149616 | biography | Adelaine Florence Hain | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149743 | biography | Sandile Dikeni | 1966-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0094076 | biography | Evelina de Bruin | 1933-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0141673 | biography | Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng | 1918-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0151814 | biography | Mary Malete | – | ✓ |
| B-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0151645 | biography | Professor Brij Maharaj | – | – |
| B-0008137 | biography | Alcott Skei Gwentshe | 1920-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0151697 | biography | King Faku ka Ngqungqushe | 1780-1867 | ✓ |
| B-0068150 | biography | Jackson Mthembu | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0147481 | biography | Frederick Gqola | – | – |
| B-0008120 | biography | Joe Nzingo Gqabi | 1929-1981 | ✓ |
Bantu Holomisa
Major General (Retired) Bantubonke (Bantu) Harrington Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief…
Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his…
Adelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died…
Sandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism…
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was…
Evelina de Bruin
Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her…
Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to…
Mary Malete
Mary Malete was the president of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the first president of the South African…
Dorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother,…
Professor Brij Maharaj
Prof Brij Maharaj was born in 1957 in Merebank, south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN). His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a…
Alcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe…
King Faku ka Ngqungqushe
King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki in the Mpondoland region,…
Jackson Mthembu
Jackson Mthembu was born in June 5th,1958 in Witbank. He grew up in Kromkrans, a reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in…
Frederick Gqola
Joe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer…