Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068388 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Roux | 1903-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0068386 | biography | Piet Retief | – | – |
| B-0068381 | biography | Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
| B-0068302 | biography | George Edward Peake | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0068266 | biography | Thomas Titus Nkobi | 1922 | – |
| B-0068232 | biography | Rita Alice Ndzanga | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0068162 | biography | King Mzilikazi | 1790-1868 | – |
| B-0067897 | biography | Alan Stewart Paton | 1903-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0066410 | biography | Ruth Alexander | 1888-1942 | ✓ |
| B-0066330 | biography | Bruno Mtolo | – | – |
| B-0066324 | biography | James Kantor | 1927-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0066278 | biography | Alex Hepple | 1904-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0064906 | biography | Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri | 1947-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0064870 | biography | Isaiah Stein | 1931-2011 | ✓ |
Edward “Eddie” Roux
Edward Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg,…
Piet Retief
Piet Retief was born on 12 November 1780 in the Wagenmakersvallei, (known as Wellington today), Cape Province. He was the fifth of 10…
Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her…
Martin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture…
George Edward Peake
George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s…
Thomas Titus Nkobi
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in Johannesburg. Member of the national executive committee of…
Rita Alice Ndzanga
Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near Ventersdorp, western…
King Mzilikazi
Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what became…
Alan Stewart Paton
Alan Stewart Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal on 11 January 1903. His father, James Paton, a Scottish immigrant and…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and…
Bruno Mtolo
James Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was…
Alex Hepple
Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple (1869-1942), an immigrant from…
Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
Raymond Chikapa (Ray) Phiri was born in 1947 in Nelspruit (present-day Mbombela) in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He grew up with a…
Isaiah Stein
Isaiah Stein was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents died,…