Biographies
10,764 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008367 | biography | Elizabeth Mafekeng | 1918-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008353 | biography | Moses Mabhida | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008345 | biography | Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli | 1898-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008313 | biography | Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota | 1948-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008305 | biography | Chris Ledochowski | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008304 | biography | Potlako Leballo | – | – |
| B-0008303 | biography | Lesley Lawson | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008292 | biography | James la Guma | 1894-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008291 | biography | Alex la Guma | 1925-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008274 | biography | Moses Mauane Kotane | 1905-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008255 | biography | Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo | 1922-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008242 | biography | William Kentridge | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008231 | biography | Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
Elizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to…
Moses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off…
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress…
Norman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding…
Leon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from…
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota was born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 August 1948, into a working…
Chris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non…
Potlako Leballo
He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he…
Lesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended…
James la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and…
Alex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the…
Moses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a…
Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance…
William Kentridge
"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art …
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western…