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| B-0097872 | biography | Günther Komnick | 1929 | – |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0095262 | biography | Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande | 1958 | – |
| B-0007856 | biography | Diana (Di) Bishop | – | – |
| B-0009024 | biography | George Sewpersadh | 1936 | – |
| B-0122038 | biography | Diane Case | 1955 | – |
| B-0008165 | biography | Robert Hodgins | 1920-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008942 | biography | Dolly Rathebe | 1928-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008028 | biography | Sheena Duncan | 1932-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008149 | biography | Bessie Amelia Head | 1937-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008362 | biography | Laduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela | 1906-1996 | – |
| B-0008173 | biography | Nathaniel Impey Honono | 1908-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0009128 | biography | Anna Tempo | – | – |
| B-0008813 | biography | Tu Nokwe | – | – |
| B-0141671 | biography | Buzwe Stanley Mabizela | 1934-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0149640 | biography | Glynn Griffiths | 1950-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0149653 | biography | Stephen Joel Chifunyise | 1948-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008465 | biography | Mizream Maseko | 1927-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0067725 | biography | Dr Martin Luther King jr | 1929-1968 | – |
| B-0120752 | biography | Hermanus Gabriel Loots | 1936-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0095598 | biography | John Taolo Gaetsewe | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008526 | biography | Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy | 1977 | ✓ |
| B-0095730 | biography | Cassim Amra | 1919-1984 | – |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0080428 | biography | Rev. Theo Kotze | 1920-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0149616 | biography | Adelaine Florence Hain | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0084103 | biography | Dr. Abu Baker Asvat | 1943-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0144640 | biography | Louis Botha | 1862-1919 | ✓ |
| B-0008825 | biography | Bonnie Ntshalintshali | 1967-1999 | – |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
Dr Emmanuel Bonginkosi "Blade" Nzimande was born in Kwa-Dambuza, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of…
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. During the celebrations,…
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
George Sewpersadh was born in Cato Manor on 7 October 1936. His father was a newspaper vendor and his mother a housewife. His family was forced to move to…
BiographyDiane Case
Diane Case was born in Woodstock, Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
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…
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…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
Bessie Amelia Head was born at Fort Napier Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
He was an author, illustrator, sculptor, heaven-herd and philosopher. He lived in the Ceza district where he received training as an inyanga from both his…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyAnna Tempo
Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner with her welfare work…
BiographyTu Nokwe
Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer. When her father…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…
BiographyMizream Maseko
Mizream Maseko (also documented as Mizraim, Mizriam, Mizram) was born on 10 June 1927. Maseko began his career as a house painter after completing his studies…
BiographyDr Martin Luther King jr
American Civil Rights leader, influential and inspirational in many African lives For an excellent and richly linked biography, click here
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
Hermanus Gabriel Loots, also known as James Stuart, is most noted for his role in exposing brutality at African National Congress camps in 1984, which…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern Cape.His father was a migrant mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary…
BiographyBenedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy
Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape Town based club, Cape Town Spurs. He made his…
BiographyCassim Amra
Cassim Amra was born in 1919 in Durban Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He attended Sastri College, Durban where he represented the senior cricket team. Amra was…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
The Reverend Theo Kotze was born at the Heads in Knysna, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 19 May 1920.Kotze came from Afrikaaner stock. His father, a lawyer…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
BiographyLouis Botha
Louis Botha was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at…
BiographyBonnie Ntshalintshali
She was born in Winterton, Natal. She was trained by Fée Halsted-Berning at Ardmore. Before her untimely death she participated in many group exhibitions…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…