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| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0008305 | biography | Chris Ledochowski | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0007786 | biography | Jane Alexander | 1959 | – |
| B-0008213 | biography | Mohamed Hajee Joosub | 1862-1944 | – |
| B-0007876 | biography | Elize Botha | 1930-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0098638 | biography | Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa | 1941-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0100300 | biography | Donald James Woods | 1933-2001 | – |
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0149521 | biography | Ray E. Phillips | – | ✓ |
| B-0008347 | biography | Louis Luyt | 1932-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0093746 | biography | Rashid Lombard | 1951-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0148408 | biography | Alan Keith Brooks | 18 May1940-2008 | – |
| B-0149551 | biography | Ashley La Grange | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0150555 | biography | Stephanie Urdang | – | ✓ |
| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0122872 | biography | Sydney Alex Kumalo | 1935-1988 | – |
| B-0008288 | biography | Mazisi Raymond Kunene | 1930-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0008216 | biography | Archibald Campbell Jordan | 1906-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0009003 | biography | Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0094071 | biography | Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels | 1928-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0079929 | biography | Achmad Cassiem | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0095734 | biography | Sipo Elijah Mzimela | 1935-2013 | – |
| B-0008159 | biography | Baruch Hirson | 1921-1999 | – |
| B-0096365 | biography | Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex' | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0095282 | biography | Elias Mathope Motsoaledi | 1924-1994 | – |
| B-0149593 | biography | Cloete Breytenbach | 1933-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149875 | biography | Zubeida Vallie | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0149592 | biography | Chris Qwazi | – | ✓ |
| B-0008018 | biography | Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008506 | biography | Rafique (Rafs) Mayet | 1955 | – |
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school…
BiographyJane Alexander
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Jane Alexander is known for her figurative sculptures, often appearing…
BiographyMohamed Hajee Joosub
Joosub was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub…
BiographyElize Botha
Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp, West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She enrolled at the University of…
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the…
BiographyDonald James Woods
Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his…
BiographyHelene Marie Passtoors
Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in the struggles of…
BiographyRay E. Phillips
Ray E. Phillips was born in 1889 and active in South Africa for four decades following World War I. He participated in the Joint Council movement and was a…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…
BiographyRashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town,…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyAshley La Grange
"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a family staunchly opposed to apartheid. Her father, a lawyer, worked in the…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant,…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded Abyssinia (later…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his father, Mdabuli Albert…
BiographyArchibald Campbell Jordan
Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called …
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist…
BiographySipo Elijah Mzimela
Sipo Elijah Mzimela was born on 19 June 1935, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria Mzimela. The entire family was raised as Anglicans and…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
Baruch Hirson, named after his late grandfather, was born on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician…
BiographyAlexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist…
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a…
Zubeida Vallie
Zubeida Vallie was born in 1963 in Newlands, Cape Town from which she and her family were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act. She is a graduate of…
BiographyChris Qwazi
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the…
BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and Johannesburg Girls High…
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…