Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0121549 | biography | Zanele Muholi | 1972 | – |
| B-0121280 | biography | Wilfrid Edward Cooper | 1926-2004 | – |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0098966 | biography | Nicholas Hlobo | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0098660 | biography | Patrice Émery Lumumba | 1925-1961 | – |
| B-0098558 | biography | Haile Selassie I | 1892-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0097304 | biography | Villa Baker | 1917-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0096424 | biography | Lindiwe Mazibuko | 1980 | ✓ |
| B-0096364 | biography | Glenn Moss | 1952 | – |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0095602 | biography | Leo Marquard | 1897-1974 | – |
| B-0095464 | biography | Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg | – | – |
| B-0095235 | biography | Tom Walters | – | – |
| B-0095234 | biography | David Welsh | – | – |
Zanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in…
Wilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in…
Kay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid…
Esther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children:…
Nicholas Hlobo
Born in 1975 in Cape Town, Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though…
Patrice Émery Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai,…
Haile Selassie I
Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892…
Villa Baker
Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan,…
Lindiwe Mazibuko
Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland. At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her father was a…
Glenn Moss
Glenn Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He went to…
Sara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle…
Leo Marquard
Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch…
Professor Sir 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…
Tom Walters