Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007913 | biography | Yusuf Cachalia | 1915-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0007910 | biography | Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia | – | ✓ |
| B-0007903 | biography | Julius Phumelele Busa | 1927 | – |
| B-0007900 | biography | Sonia Beryl Bunting | 1922-2001 | – |
| B-0007887 | biography | André Philippus Brink | 1935-2015 | – |
| B-0007870 | biography | David Wilcox Bopape | 1915-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007863 | biography | Isaac Bokala | 1929-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0007860 | biography | Molly Blackburn | 1930-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0007856 | biography | Diana (Di) Bishop | – | – |
| B-0007853 | biography | Jodi Bieber | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0007849 | biography | Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0007844 | biography | Ian Berry | 1934-2013 | – |
| B-0007841 | biography | Mary Dorothy Benson | 1919-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0007800 | biography | Zainab Ebrahim Asvat | 1920-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007799 | biography | Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal | 1923-1966 | – |
Yusuf Cachalia
Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and…
Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia
Ahmed Mohamed Cachalia joined the Satyagraha struggle in the Transvaal. He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury…
Julius Phumelele Busa
Born in 1927 Busa was a trade unionist. He played an important part in organising textile workers in Worcester, and was an African National…
Sonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work…
André Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is…
David Wilcox Bopape
David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near…
Isaac Bokala
Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began…
Molly Blackburn
Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP…
Diana (Di) Bishop
Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town. She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic…
Jodi Bieber
Jodi Bieber has lived in Johannesburg for the past 35 years. She studied photography at the Market Theatre photographic workshop, a non…
Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld
Pieter Beyleveld was born in 1916 in the Orange Free State and educated at farm schools. He joined the army at the outbreak of World War II…
Ian Berry
Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an…
Mary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received…
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg, daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She…
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief. He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to…