Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0077696 | biography | Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba | 1930-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0076346 | biography | Hugh Lewin | 1939-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0070060 | biography | John Langalibalele Dube | 1871-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0068942 | biography | Ahmed Timol | 1941-1971 | ✓ |
| B-0068895 | biography | Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu | 1934 | – |
| B-0068742 | biography | Cecil Williams | 1906-1979 | – |
| B-0068678 | biography | Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana | 1919-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0068644 | biography | Ben Turok | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0068419 | biography | Dawood Seedat | 1916-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0068389 | biography | Sorabjee Rustomjee | 1895-1960 | – |
| B-0068382 | biography | Mary Goitsemang Ranta | 1922 | – |
| B-0068322 | biography | David Pratt | 1909-1961 | – |
| B-0068316 | biography | George Gangen Ponnen | 1913-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0068272 | biography | Philemon Pearce Nokwe | 1927-1978 | – |
| B-0068262 | biography | John Kgwana Nkadimeng | 1925-2020 | – |
Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba
Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba was born on 5 November 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa where he was also raised. His…
Hugh Lewin
Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university…
John Langalibalele Dube
John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and…
Ahmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South…
Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu. He…
Cecil Williams
Cecil Williams was born in Cornwall, England in 1906. Williams whose father was a blacksmith left Cornwall for Johannesburg in 1928. After…
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), into the Mhinga…
Ben Turok
Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in…
Dawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom…
Sorabjee Rustomjee
Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to…
Mary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later…
David Pratt
David Beresford Pratt was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the United Kingdom to…
George Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father…
Philemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated…
John Kgwana Nkadimeng
John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing primary school he worked as a…