Biographies
459 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0097304 | biography | Villa Baker | 1917-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0096424 | biography | Lindiwe Mazibuko | 1980 | ✓ |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0095228 | biography | Hannah Margaret Stanton | 1913-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0080678 | biography | Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba | 1950-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0080664 | biography | Mme Makwena Matlala | – | ✓ |
| B-0080454 | biography | Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0074109 | biography | Eulalie Doreen Stott | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0070046 | biography | Winnie Motlalepule Kgware | 1917-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0068392 | biography | Sonja Schlesin | 1888-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0068381 | biography | Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0068232 | biography | Rita Alice Ndzanga | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0066410 | biography | Ruth Alexander | 1888-1942 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0009230 | biography | Sue Williamson | 1941 | ✓ |
Villa Baker
Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan,…
Lindiwe Mazibuko
Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland. At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her father was a…
Sara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle…
Hannah Margaret Stanton
Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, western Gauteng, in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four…
Mme Makwena Matlala
The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District,…
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family…
Eulalie Doreen Stott
Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just…
Winnie Motlalepule Kgware
Winnie Motlalepule Kgware was born in Thaba Nchu in the Free State on the 27th of October in 1917. A teacher by profession, and resident…
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…
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…
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…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and…
Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
Introduction Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders,…
Sue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art…