Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009024 | biography | George Sewpersadh | 1936 | – |
| B-0009017 | biography | Pixley ka Isaka Seme | 1881-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0009013 | biography | Jan Gerard Sekoto | 1913-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008981 | biography | Anthony Sampson | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008977 | biography | Mujahid Safodien | 1972 | – |
| B-0008974 | biography | Heidi Saayman | 1970 | – |
| B-0008959 | biography | Richard Rive | 1931-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0008948 | biography | Robert M. Resha | 1920-1973 | ✓ |
| B-0008909 | biography | Victor Poto | 1897-1974 | – |
| B-0008903 | biography | Henry Solomon Leon Polak | – | ✓ |
| B-0008886 | biography | Francois Pienaar | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008870 | biography | Malcolm Payne | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0008856 | biography | Sir Ernest Oppenheimer | 1880 | – |
| B-0008814 | biography | Nongqawuse | 1841-1898 | ✓ |
| B-0008808 | biography | Lewis Nkosi | 1936-2010 | ✓ |
George Sewpersadh
George Sewpersadh was born in Cato Manor on 7 October 1936. His father was a newspaper vendor and his mother a housewife. His family was…
Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a…
Jan Gerard Sekoto
“Art is the spark, the illumination which is socially significant for it brings about understanding.” Jan Gerard Sekoto was born on 9…
Anthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in…
Mujahid Safodien
Mujahid was born on 17 of March 1972. He matriculated at the Alexandra Senior Secondary School and went on to do a Graphic design and Fine…
Heidi Saayman
Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving…
Richard Rive
Richard Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Cape Town, and grew up in District Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under…
Robert M. Resha
Robert M. Resha was born in Bolotwe,Queenstown, Eastern Province [Now Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal…
Victor Poto
Victor Poto was born in 1897 at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare),…
Henry Solomon Leon Polak
Francois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various…
Malcolm Payne
"First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I…
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer
Ernest Oppenheimer was born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began…
Nongqawuse
History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her…
Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi was born in Chesterville, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at local schools before enrolling at M. L. Sultan Technical…