Biographies
10,764 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150469 | biography | Sumboornam Pillay | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0150447 | biography | Sibongile Susan Mkhabela | – | ✓ |
| B-0150428 | biography | Faith Gasa | 1945-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0150418 | biography | Ashlatha Rambally | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0150406 | biography | Wendy Heather Woods | 1941-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0150398 | biography | Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden | 1923-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150369 | biography | Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0150362 | biography | Pauline Podbrey | 1922-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0150328 | biography | Joey Fourie | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0150305 | biography | Traci Mackie | – | ✓ |
| B-0150280 | biography | Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela | 1953-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0150238 | biography | Robert Mokwena (George Sello) | 1952-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0150226 | biography | Mary Thipe | 1917-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0150094 | biography | Leonard Tebogo Tume | 1957-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0150009 | biography | Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu | 1969-1988 | ✓ |
Sumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee,…
Sibongile Susan Mkhabela
The youngest child of Mozambican immigrants, Sibongile (Bongi) Susan Mkhabela (nèe Mthembu) grew up in Zola, one of the poorest areas in…
Faith Gasa
Faith Gasa was born on 1 January 1945 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). She graduated with a diploma in…
Ashlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso…
Wendy Heather Woods
Wendy Heather Woods (neè Bruce) was born on 5 February 1941 in Mthatha (formerly Umtata), Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). An…
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in…
Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu
Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu was born in 1935* in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). His interest in politics was…
Pauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933,…
Joey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in…
Traci Mackie
Traci Mackie was born to a working-class family, in an industrial village called Blackburn in Scotland. When she was nine years old, her…
Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in…
Robert Mokwena (George Sello)
Robert Mokwena, also known by his guerrilla name as George Sello, was born on 4 April 1952 in White City Jabavu, Soweto in the Transvaal …
Mary Thipe
Mary Thipe was born in 1917* in Ramhlakoane, a village in the Matatiele district, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) near the Eastern Cape border…
Leonard Tebogo Tume
Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after…
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu was born on 28 February 1969 in KwaMashu, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She was the fifth daughter born to…