Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0124602 | biography | Laurent Kabila | 1939-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0124548 | biography | David Dabede Mabuza | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0123540 | biography | Francis Wilson | 1939-2022 | – |
| B-0123373 | biography | Njinga Ana de Sousa | 1583-1663 | ✓ |
| B-0123096 | biography | Lulu Dube | 1931-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0122852 | biography | Robert Gabriel Mugabe | 1924-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0122768 | biography | Nyiko Floyd Shivambu | 1983 | ✓ |
| B-0122658 | biography | Molefe Pheto | – | ✓ |
| B-0122132 | biography | Wim Botha | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0121773 | biography | Tracy Payne | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0121736 | biography | Randolph Hartzenberg | 1948 | – |
| B-0121724 | biography | Jo Ractliffe | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0121599 | biography | Berni Searle | 1964 | ✓ |
| B-0121589 | biography | Mary Sibande | 1982 | – |
Laurent Kabila
Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became…
David Dabede Mabuza
David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtained a National…
Francis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone,…
Njinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her…
Lulu Dube
Lulu Dube was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline (neè Khumalo) Dube and their…
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare…
Nyiko Floyd Shivambu
Nyiko Floyd Shivambu was born on 1 January 1983 in Malamulele, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He studied at Mphambo High School in…
Molefe Pheto
Molefe Pheto grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg. As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to…
Wim Botha
Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up…
Ari Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South…
Tracy Payne
Tracy Payne’s hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She…
Randolph Hartzenberg
Randolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance. Through his…
Jo Ractliffe
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who…
Berni Searle
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum…
Mary Sibande
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual…