Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150475 | biography | Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis | 1850-1912 | ✓ |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0150389 | biography | Selloane Ethel Leisa | 1914-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150302 | biography | Arthur Nuthall Fula | 1908-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0150214 | biography | Ruth Naomi Leon | 1945-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0150068 | biography | Simon Nkoli | 1957-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0149933 | biography | Siyamthanda Kolisi | 1991 | ✓ |
| B-0149713 | biography | Fred Khumalo | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0149534 | biography | Robert Mokxotho Matji | 1922-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0149528 | biography | Randolph Vigne | – | – |
| B-0149422 | biography | Ishmael Mkhabela | – | ✓ |
| B-0149414 | biography | Sipho Mutsi | 1985 | ✓ |
| B-0149384 | biography | Thompson Dhlamini | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0149375 | biography | Mhlupeki Hlongwane | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0149374 | biography | Tom Lebekoe | – | ✓ |
Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis
Henrietta (Ettie or Het) Rebecca Stakesby Lewis was born in 1850 at the Umpukani Mission Station, Orange Free State (now Free State…
Achmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in…
Selloane Ethel Leisa
Selloane Ethel Leisa was born on 22* February 1914 in Ga-Marishane, Northern Transvaal, (now Limpopo Province). Upon completing her…
Arthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice …
Ruth Naomi Leon
The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the…
Simon Nkoli
“If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outside is freedom.”—…
Siyamthanda Kolisi
Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape. He was born exactly 15 years…
Fred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the…
Robert Mokxotho Matji
Robert Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port…
Randolph Vigne
Ishmael Mkhabela
Ishmael Mkhabela began his political activism in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member…
Sipho Mutsi
Sipho Mutsi died in 1985 at the Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was…
Thompson Dhlamini
Thompson Dhlamini was Chief Vuna Miya’s erstwhile chief induna (headman). Banished along with Chief Miya, the two men were handcuffed…
Mhlupeki Hlongwane
Mhlupeki Hlongwane and Mxoshwa Mdhluli were banished from Ngoba Location, Bergville District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]on 11 April 1957…
Tom Lebekoe
Tom Lebekoe was one of the six persons, alongside Jeremiah Mabe, accused of various offences arising from conflict in Mabieskraal …