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| B-0007805 | biography | Baden Powell | 1857-1941 | – |
| B-0007803 | biography | Ali Bacher | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0007801 | biography | Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper) | 1663 | – |
| B-0007797 | biography | Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0007796 | biography | Ruth Elizabeth Arndt | 1890-1841 | – |
| B-0007790 | biography | Nils Severin Andersen | 1897-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0007789 | biography | John Henry Amshewitz | 1882-1942 | – |
| B-0007781 | biography | Kerr Alexander | 1885-1970 | – |
| B-0007780 | biography | Daniel William | 1880 | – |
| B-0007776 | biography | James E. Kwegyir Aggrey | 1875-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0007774 | biography | Arthur Albert Hugh Adams | 1929-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0007773 | biography | Magdelene Malotane Adams | – | – |
| B-0007772 | biography | Feroza Adam | 1961-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0007770 | biography | Raymond Ackerman | 1931 | – |
| B-0007767 | biography | Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams | 1903-1973 | – |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0098660 | biography | Patrice Émery Lumumba | 1925-1961 | – |
| B-0098558 | biography | Haile Selassie I | 1892-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0097304 | biography | Villa Baker | 1917-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0096424 | biography | Lindiwe Mazibuko | 1980 | ✓ |
| B-0096364 | biography | Glenn Moss | 1952 | – |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0008675 | biography | Thomas Trevor (Tommy) Motswai | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008673 | biography | Leonard Matsoso | – | – |
| B-0008671 | biography | Mathews ‘’Loop-en-val’’ Motshwarateu | 1958-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0008669 | biography | Monty Johannes Motloung | 1957-2006 | – |
| B-0008666 | biography | Andrew Tshidiso Motjuoadi | 1935-1968 | – |
| B-0008664 | biography | Titus Moteyane | 1963 | – |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008662 | biography | David Moteane | 1951 | – |
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
BiographyAli Bacher
If Ali Bacher's commitment to cricket had ended after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali Bacher, the…
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
Autshumao also known as Herry the strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English…
BiographyBen Wa Mokoena Arnold
Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold was born on 19 July 1942 in Johannesburg. Arnold attended school in Albertville, Newclare and Coronationville. In 1957 he studied under…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the government on the importance of pre-school…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…
BiographyJohn Henry Amshewitz
BiographyKerr Alexander
Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to…
BiographyDaniel William
Daniel William Alexander was born in 1880 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later…
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated…
BiographyMagdelene Malotane Adams
Magdelene Moloto was born in a Mission Station in Limpopo. She lived with her grandmother until she completed her primary school education. She married Simon…
BiographyFeroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High School. While…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
BiographyChief Rabbi Israel Abrahams
Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams was born on 12 March 1903 in Vilna, Lithuania. He was the son of Zecharya Alter Abramowich and Rachel Leah Sherman. As a young boy…
BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day…
BiographyHaile Selassie I
Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth name given…
BiographyVilla 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, East Rand Transvaal …
BiographyLindiwe 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 banker and her mother a…
BiographyGlenn Moss
Glenn Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He went to Waterkloof Primary School…
BiographySara “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-herding Gonaquasub group…
BiographyThomas Trevor (Tommy) Motswai
Tommy Motswai was born on 27 May 1963 in Johannesburg. Although he was born deaf he ultimately became a prolific and successful artist portraying the world…
BiographyLeonard Matsoso
BiographyMathews ‘’Loop-en-val’’ Motshwarateu
Mathews Motshwarateu was born on 2 November 1958 in Soweto. His talent for athletics already became apparent in his primary school years, which he spent at…
BiographyMonty Johannes Motloung
Motloung started his primary schooling at Mmuso Lower Primary School in 1965. Ten years later, in 1975, Motloung went to pursue his secondary education at…
BiographyAndrew Tshidiso Motjuoadi
BiographyTitus Moteyane
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyDavid Moteane