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| B-0064875 | biography | Dr Essop Essak Jassat | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0095356 | biography | Douglas Chadwick Thompson | 1905-1985 | – |
| B-0087605 | biography | Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch | 1920-2005 | – |
| B-0007970 | biography | Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo | 1909-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0149510 | biography | João Albasini | 1813-1888 | – |
| B-0150485 | biography | Mabel Palmer | 1876-1958 | ✓ |
| B-0151052 | biography | Elizabeth Komikie Gumede | 1921-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150288 | biography | Adam Small | 1936-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0097080 | biography | Judge Jan Hendrik Steyn | 1928-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0009202 | biography | Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd | 1901-1966 | – |
| B-0150940 | biography | Thembi Shange Nobadula | 1927-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0149881 | biography | Lloyd Spencer | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0122793 | biography | Dali Tambo | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0125758 | biography | Stephen Marais | 1956 | – |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008339 | biography | Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski | 1953-1989 | – |
| B-0007965 | biography | Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther | 1800 | – |
| B-0093724 | biography | David Stuurman | 1773-1830 | ✓ |
| B-0009188 | biography | Jan van Eck | 1943-2009 | – |
| B-0009137 | biography | Richard Victor Selope Thema | 1886-1955 | ✓ |
| B-0009262 | biography | Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu | 1905-1988 | – |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0095274 | biography | Simon Nkabinde | 1937-1999 | – |
| B-0009082 | biography | Joe Slovo | 1926-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0007955 | biography | Ernest Cole | 1940-1990 | – |
| B-0009091 | biography | Janet Burnside Soga | 1827-1903 | ✓ |
| B-0008142 | biography | Michael Alan Harmel | 1915-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0095164 | biography | Anne-Marie Wolpe | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0080979 | biography | Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng | 1913-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0122626 | biography | Frank Alexander Landman | 1918-1990 | – |
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
Douglas Chadwick Thompson was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
BiographyJoão Albasini
João Albasini was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 1 June 1813. Beside the fact that his father was a sea captain, little is known about young Albasini’s youth. In…
BiographyMabel Palmer
Dr Mabel Palmer (nee Mabel Atkinson) was born on 22 May 1876 near Stocksfield in Northumberland, England. Her father, J.B. Atkinson, was a mine inspector, and…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
Jan Hendrik Steyn was born in Cape Town, Western Cape on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…
BiographyDali Tambo
Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane Tambo. When…
Stephen Marais
Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape, however, there are other…
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski was born on 3 February 1953, in South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly…
BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
Born about 1800, in Zomba, Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The country frequently…
BiographyDavid Stuurman
David Stuurman was born around 1773, probably near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi and San people were…
BiographyJan van Eck
Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children. He came to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
Richard Victor Selope Thema was born in Ga-Mamabolo, Pietersburg district, in 1886. Both his parents were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the…
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was a…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde was born on 30 November 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was…
BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
Janet Burnside Soga
Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…