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| B-0067866 | biography | Justice Gizenga Mpanza | 1937-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0067755 | biography | Leleti Khumalo | 1970 | ✓ |
| B-0067743 | biography | Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long | 1891-1922 | – |
| B-0067728 | biography | Daniel R Koza | 1912-1964 | – |
| B-0067726 | biography | Lord Kitchener | 1850-1916 | – |
| B-0067725 | biography | Dr Martin Luther King jr | 1929-1968 | – |
| B-0067467 | biography | Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0067466 | biography | Millicent Fawcett | 1847-1929 | ✓ |
| B-0067462 | biography | Doman | Unknown-1663 | – |
| B-0067421 | biography | Chief Dingiswayo | 1770 | – |
| B-0067328 | biography | Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos | 1879-1935 | – |
| B-0067298 | biography | Jacob Abraham de Mist | 1749-1823 | ✓ |
| B-0067163 | biography | Maggie Mikula | 1941-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0067162 | biography | Hermanus Lethebe | Unknown-1929 | ✓ |
| B-0066513 | biography | King Cetshwayo | 1826-1884 | ✓ |
| B-0066409 | biography | Daniel William Alexander | 1883-1970 | ✓ |
| B-0066387 | biography | Mads Nørgaard | 1987 | – |
| B-0066326 | biography | Vernon Berrange | – | – |
| B-0066295 | biography | Mary Agnes Stainbank | 1899-1996 | – |
| B-0066279 | biography | Mapetla Frank Mohapi | 1947-1976 | – |
| B-0069428 | biography | Johanna Catharina Cornelius | 1912-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0064878 | biography | Bonakele Milner Ntsangani | 1923-1989 | – |
| B-0064874 | biography | Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota | 1928-2009 | – |
| B-0064873 | biography | Freda Levson | 1911-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0064872 | biography | Joe “Sdumo” Mafela | 1942-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0064871 | biography | Suliman “Babla” Saloojee | 1931-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0064867 | biography | Paul Shipokosa Mashatile | 1961 | – |
| B-0064865 | biography | Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0064855 | biography | Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu | 1953-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0064854 | biography | Cameron Mbulelo Madikizela | Unknown-1987 | ✓ |
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
Justice "Gizenga" Mpanza was born on 5 September 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to…
BiographyLeleti Khumalo
Leleti Khumalo was born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township, the North of Durban. Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became a member a youth backyard…
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
Samuel Alfred Long was born in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home when he was…
BiographyDaniel R Koza
Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the…
BiographyLord Kitchener
Best known for his famous recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary…
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
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first…
Millicent Fawcett
Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain during the Anglo Boer War in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration…
BiographyDoman
In about 1657 Doman, a Goring-haiqua Khoisan, was sent to Batavia to learn to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the capacity of the Dutch…
Chief Dingiswayo
Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand area before Shaka brought them under his rule. Little…
BiographyTielman Johannes de Villiers Roos
Tielman Roos was born in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South African College qualified as an advocate when he was only 23 years old. He…
Jacob Abraham de Mist
De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he studied law in Leyden from 1766 to…
BiographyMaggie Mikula
Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959. She then went on to study for a Diploma…
BiographyHermanus Lethebe
Towards the end of 1929, the Minister of Justice, Oswald Pirow, announced a new bill, an amendment to the Riotous Assemblies Act, which would give him the…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
Daniel William Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican…
BiographyMads Nørgaard
Danish documentary photographer and open source software developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work…
Vernon Berrange
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was very nationalistic, with both their father and…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh…
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu…
BiographyFreda Levson
Freda Levson was born on 21 November 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her father was a prominent physician in Johannesburg. She was educated in England from the…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave…
BiographyPaul Shipokosa Mashatile
Paul Mashatile was born on 21 October 1961 in Geraldsville, Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation struggle from his student…
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…
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and Queen Johanna Selepi, was born on…
BiographyCameron Mbulelo Madikizela
Cameron Madikizela graduated from Fort Hare. He was a member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA). He taught…