Biographies
10,763 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0068943 | biography | Sydney Sipho Sepamla | 1932-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0068743 | biography | Curtis Nkondo | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0068433 | biography | Hotep Idris Galeta | 1941-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0068392 | biography | Sonja Schlesin | 1888-1956 | ✓ |
| 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 | – | – |
Sydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets…
Curtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s,…
Hotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard;…
Sonja Schlesin
Sonja Schlesin was born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later…
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