Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0070060 | biography | John Langalibalele Dube | 1871-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0068942 | biography | Ahmed Timol | 1941-1971 | ✓ |
| B-0068907 | biography | King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu | 1948-2021 | – |
| B-0068895 | biography | Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu | 1934 | – |
| B-0068755 | biography | Paul Weinberg | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0068742 | biography | Cecil Williams | 1906-1979 | – |
| B-0068699 | biography | Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo | 1955-1991 | – |
| B-0068678 | biography | Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana | 1919-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0068665 | biography | Anna Zieminski | 1957 | – |
| B-0068663 | biography | Eric Miller | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0068644 | biography | Ben Turok | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0068487 | biography | General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
| B-0068449 | biography | Gertrude Shope | 1925 | ✓ |
| B-0068419 | biography | Dawood Seedat | 1916-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0068389 | biography | Sorabjee Rustomjee | 1895-1960 | – |
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…
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King…
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…
Paul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a…
Cecil Williams
Cecil Williams was born in Cornwall, England in 1906. Williams whose father was a blacksmith left Cornwall for Johannesburg in 1928. After…
Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie…
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), into the Mhinga…
Anna Zieminski
Anna Zieminski was born in Cape Town, South Africa in February 1957. She schooled at St Mary's Dominican Convent and the University of Cape…
Eric Miller
Eric Miller was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA…
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…
General Jan Christiaan Smuts
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading…
Gertrude Shope
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto…
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…