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| B-0008603 | biography | John Koenakeefe Mohl | 1903-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0008211 | biography | Peter Jones | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008461 | biography | Hugh Masekela | 1939-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008119 | biography | Vera Gow (Adams) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008800 | biography | William Frederick Nkomo | 1915-1972 | – |
| B-0068295 | biography | Alfred Baphetuxolo Nzo | 1925-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0064865 | biography | Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0009023 | biography | Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum | 1930-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0009003 | biography | Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0008942 | biography | Dolly Rathebe | 1928-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0094854 | biography | Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini | 1932-1988 | – |
| B-0008447 | biography | Greg Marinovich | 1962 | – |
| B-0068232 | biography | Rita Alice Ndzanga | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0008791 | biography | Carl Niehaus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0080678 | biography | Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba | 1950-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0079929 | biography | Achmad Cassiem | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0085151 | biography | Matlakana Philemon Tefu | 1940-2012 | – |
| B-0008028 | biography | Sheena Duncan | 1932-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008870 | biography | Malcolm Payne | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0099279 | biography | Saleem Badat | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0094345 | biography | Eric Mtshali | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| R-0122332 | archive | A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State | 17 Nov 2016 | – |
| E-0011294 | event | Walter Battiss is born in Somerset East | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| E-0011126 | event | Early Xhosa author William Gqoba dies | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0059193 | article | Community histories in Port Elizabeth | 30 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0149215 | biography | Winston Field | – | ✓ |
| B-0148749 | biography | Premanathan “Prema” Naidoo | 1945 | ✓ |
| A-0059615 | article | South Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948 | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0152349 | archive | Robert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024 | 4 Mar 2024 | – |
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and…
BiographyPeter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…
BiographyHugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play piano as a…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town. Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
Frederick Nkomo was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…
BiographyMpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom
Mpumelelo Grootboom, controversial and liberal playwright was born in Meadowlands, Soweto in 1975, were he was raised by his grandparents. He was a year old…
BiographySewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum
“Papwa” Sewsunker Sewgolum was born in 1930, into a family of poor sugarcane labourers in Natal. He started working at an early age, and as a young boy,…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and…
BiographyJohnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini
Johnstone “Johnny” Mfanafuthi Makhathini was born in Durban on 8 February 1932. He attended school at Adams College in Durban where he trained as a teacher…
BiographyGreg Marinovich
The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest the…
BiographyRita 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 Transvaal (now North…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, western Gauteng, in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist…
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…
BiographySheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the Roedean School…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
"First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness…
BiographySaleem Badat
Dr Saleem Badat holds Bachelors and Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and Science…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
Early Humans: Considerable evidence indicates that about 600,000 years ago, humans inhabited what has since become the desolate Sahara of northern Niger. Long…
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… is born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… nine pieces in his anthology Zemuk' inkomo magwalandini (1906), and W.G. Bennie later used two of these in his …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the…
BiographyWinston Field
Winston Field was born on 6 June 1904, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom, where he was brought up. He moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1921. He…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… published in Ilanga lase Natal during the years 1903–1906. He described Paul Kruger’s Dream as Grendon’s “most …