Biographies
152 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0077052 | biography | Vincent Tshabalala | 1964-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0072386 | biography | Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba | 1971 | ✓ |
| B-0068317 | biography | Vera Ponnen | 1915-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008145 | biography | Frederick John Harris | 1937-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0007791 | biography | William H. "Bill" Andrews | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0141663 | biography | Raymond Hoffenberg | 1923-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0095228 | biography | Hannah Margaret Stanton | 1913-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0095122 | biography | Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney | 1888-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0068945 | biography | Mongane Wally Serote | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0068392 | biography | Sonja Schlesin | 1888-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0068302 | biography | George Edward Peake | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0068266 | biography | Thomas Titus Nkobi | 1922 | – |
| B-0008357 | biography | Graça Simbine Machel | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
Vincent Tshabalala
Vincent “Toivo” Tshabalala was born in Bethal in Mpumalanga on 15 August 1964 where he also grew up. Tshabalala became politically…
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal. Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and…
Vera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she…
Frederick John Harris
Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party In 1962…
William H. "Bill" Andrews
William H."Bill" Andrews was born in Suffolk, England, on 20 March in 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13…
Achmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in…
Raymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school…
Hannah Margaret Stanton
Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom…
Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney
Reverend Bernard Lazarus Emmanuel Sigamoney was a political activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade…
Mongane Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg on 8 May 1944, just four years before the National Party (NP) came to power in…
Sonja Schlesin
Sonja Schlesin was born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later…
George Edward Peake
George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s…
Thomas Titus Nkobi
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in Johannesburg. Member of the national executive committee of…
Graça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist…
Professor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was…