Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007853 | biography | Jodi Bieber | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0007844 | biography | Ian Berry | 1934-2013 | – |
| B-0007777 | biography | William Stewart Ainslie | 1934-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0150858 | biography | Diana Ferrus | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0150302 | biography | Arthur Nuthall Fula | 1908-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0149713 | biography | Fred Khumalo | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0144774 | biography | Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | – |
| B-0144659 | biography | John Maxwell Coetzee | 1940 | – |
| B-0141692 | biography | Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn | 1934-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0141666 | biography | Denis Farrell | – | ✓ |
| B-0125771 | biography | Hailu Mergia | 1946 | – |
| B-0124548 | biography | David Dabede Mabuza | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0123540 | biography | Francis Wilson | 1939-2022 | – |
| B-0122658 | biography | Molefe Pheto | – | ✓ |
Jodi Bieber
Jodi Bieber has lived in Johannesburg for the past 35 years. She studied photography at the Market Theatre photographic workshop, a non…
Ian Berry
Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an…
William Stewart Ainslie
William Stewart (Bill) Ainslie was born on 10 April 1934 in Bedford (Eastern Cape). Studied at the university of Natal, Pietermartizburg …
Diana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in…
Achmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in…
Arthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice …
Fred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the…
Alfred Nobel
John Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in…
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he…
Denis Farrell
Denis Farrell’s aerial photograph in 1994 of a snaking queue of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his vote, earning him a…
Hailu Mergia
Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara…
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,…
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…