Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008969 | biography | Harold Rubin | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0008926 | biography | Lucas Radebe | 1969 | ✓ |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008529 | biography | Peter McKenzie | 1955-2017 | – |
| B-0008526 | biography | Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy | 1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008508 | biography | Wiseman Mbambo | 1944 | – |
| B-0008495 | biography | Todd Tozama Matshikiza | 1921-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008475 | biography | Philemon Masinga | 1969-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008248 | biography | Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile | 1949 | – |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0008139 | biography | George Hallett | 1942-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008071 | biography | Mark Fish | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0007887 | biography | André Philippus Brink | 1935-2015 | – |
Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a…
Harold Rubin
Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting…
Lucas Radebe
Lucas Radebe was born on 12 April 1969 in Diepkloof, Soweto. When he was 15 years old, his parents sent him away to Bophuthatswana to avoid…
Es’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs…
Peter McKenzie
Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda…
Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy
Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape Town based club, Cape…
Wiseman Mbambo
He was born at Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a sculptor of figures and he works in wood. He attended school at the Umgeni Mission Station…
Todd Tozama Matshikiza
Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his…
Philemon Masinga
Philemon Masinga or ‘Chippa’ as he is affectionately known by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, Western…
Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile
Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the…
Isaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public…
George Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he…
Mark Fish
Mark Fish, or “Feeeeeesh!” as we know him, was born in Cape Town on 14 March 1974. He started his soccer career in South Africa, but has…
Dumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five…
André Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is…