Biographies
4,539 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008802 | biography | Lawrence Nkosi | 1910 | ✓ |
| B-0073829 | biography | Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu | – | ✓ |
| B-0086265 | biography | Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias | 1925-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0094016 | biography | Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa | – | ✓ |
| B-0068640 | biography | Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala | 1930 | – |
| B-0093917 | biography | Acting Chief Moepadira Mphahlele | – | ✓ |
| B-0148780 | biography | Stanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0009055 | biography | Stanley Silwana | – | ✓ |
| B-0074806 | biography | James Lenkoe | 1969 | – |
| B-0074848 | biography | Ah Yan | 1967 | – |
| B-0148423 | biography | Joseph Hugo Saliwa | – | – |
| B-0141678 | biography | John Marinus Ferus | 1940-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0144799 | biography | Jacob Poo | 1914 | – |
| B-0148405 | biography | Jeremiah Rakoko Mabe | – | – |
| B-0141697 | biography | Joel Mabi Lengisi | 1920 | ✓ |
Lawrence Nkosi
Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and…
Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu
Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke away from…
Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he…
Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
Kgosi[Chief] Abram Ramotshere Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22…
Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since…
Acting Chief Moepadira Mphahlele
Moepadira Mphahlele was the Acting Chief of the Mphahlele community in the Northern Transvaal. He was banished from Pietersburg District,…
Stanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
Professor Stanislaus (Stan) Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni was born on 13 September 1933 in Natal, (now kwaZulu-Natal). He studied at some…
Stanley Silwana
Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League…
James Lenkoe
Ah Yan
Joseph Hugo Saliwa
Joseph Hugo Saliwawas dismissed from the Native Affairs Department (NAD)in Lady Frere Eastern Province, [now Eastern Cape] ‘on account of…
John Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured…
Jacob Poo
Jeremiah Rakoko Mabe
There had been periodic unrest at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province) from the 1930s onwards…
Joel Mabi Lengisi
Joel Mabi Lengisi was born in 1920 at the Sitholeni Location, Engcobo, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], Lengisi later moved to East…