Biographies
106 records
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| Src | ||||
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| B-0153117 | biography | Colleen Lombard | 1950-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0125868 | biography | Ephraim Chaka | 1924-1960 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0007857 | biography | Advocate George Bizos | 1927-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0009229 | biography | Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0150859 | biography | Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy | 1958-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0150649 | biography | Rajes Pillay | 1944-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0150021 | biography | Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela | 1960-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0146829 | biography | Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan | 1957-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0124725 | biography | Subbiah Moodley | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0124272 | biography | Sunny Girja Singh | 1939-2025 | – |
| B-0123671 | biography | Siva Pillay | – | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
Colleen Lombard
Colleen Lombard (previously known as Colleen Rayson), an anti-apartheid activist, former political detainee, and treason trialist, was born…
Ephraim Chaka
Ephraim Chaka was born in 1924. His family came from Ladybrand, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He was married to Mirriam…
Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
IntroductionNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely…
Ruth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius…
Advocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei…
Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn was born in 1938, in Villageboard, a mixed area that had different nationalities living side by side. She…
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow…
Rajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were…
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie…
Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
Dr Vejaynand Indurjith Ramlakan, more popularly known as 'Vejay', was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa in 1957. He…
Subbiah Moodley
Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC)…
Sunny Girja Singh
Sunny Girja Singh was born in Cato Manor (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father,…
Siva Pillay
Siva Pillay was a B.Sc. student at university in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African…
Vesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father…