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| Src | ||||
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| B-0067999 | biography | Henry Mutile Fazzie | 1924-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008976 | biography | Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs | 1935 | – |
| B-0072386 | biography | Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba | 1971 | ✓ |
| B-0008131 | biography | Josiah Tshangana Gumede | 1867-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0007936 | biography | Chauke Family | – | – |
| B-0008161 | biography | John Hlatywayo | 1928 | – |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0123373 | biography | Njinga Ana de Sousa | 1583-1663 | ✓ |
| B-0008025 | biography | Sibusiso Robert Duma | 1978 | – |
| B-0141698 | biography | Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini | 1957-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0007884 | biography | Conny Braam | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0007776 | biography | James E. Kwegyir Aggrey | 1875-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008521 | biography | Themba Daniel Mbongwa | 1954 | – |
| B-0008072 | biography | Mary Fitzgerald | 1882-1960 | ✓ |
| B-0009198 | biography | Rosalie van der Gucht | – | – |
| B-0095153 | biography | Pieter Dirk-Uys | 1945 | – |
| B-0098558 | biography | Haile Selassie I | 1892-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0009102 | biography | Irma Stern | 1894-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008091 | biography | Manilal Gandhi | 1892-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008546 | biography | John Xavier Merriman | 1841-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0066324 | biography | James Kantor | 1927-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0125809 | biography | Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008225 | biography | Sam Kahn | 1911 | – |
| B-0008221 | biography | Elsa Joubert | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0068324 | biography | Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius | 1798-1853 | – |
| B-0066295 | biography | Mary Agnes Stainbank | 1899-1996 | – |
| B-0070373 | biography | Josiah Khiphusizi Jele | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0096411 | biography | Zuleika Sarojini Christopher | 1924-1992 | – |
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
Henry Mutile Fazzie
Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on…
BiographyMalusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal. Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo Gigaba. He…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and his mother were…
BiographyChauke Family
The Chaukes live in Blinkwater, near Msengi in the Limpopo Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific nor…
BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
John Hlatywayo was born in 1928, Chipinge, Rhodesia. Hlatywayo originally trained as a carpenter. He studied under Cecil Skotnes at Polly Street Art Centre and…
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…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
BiographySibusiso Robert Duma
Sibusiso Duma is a young artist who is presently making his mark within the Durban art scene. His talent was noticed and nourished by the late Trevor Makhoba …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
BiographyConny Braam
In 1971 Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland (AABN)…
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…
BiographyThemba Daniel Mbongwa
He was born at KwaNobamba (Weenan), KZN. As a boy he herded sheep, cattle and goats and while looking after these animals he used to construct cows, birds and…
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town, and then moved to…
BiographyRosalie van der Gucht
Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech and drama education…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
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…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with whom he first came to…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa…
BiographyJames Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew up in very dire…
BiographySam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa …
BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was born on 27 November 1798 near Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Colony. He was educated by travelling teachers and became an…
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…
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many black South Africans…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood Park, Durban, where…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…