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| B-0150806 | biography | Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0150649 | biography | Rajes Pillay | 1944-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0153000 | biography | Reggie Williams | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0008455 | biography | Dikobe Ben Martins | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0068486 | biography | Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile | – | – |
| B-0009262 | biography | Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu | 1905-1988 | – |
| B-0067967 | biography | Johannes (Joe) Modise | 1929-2001 | – |
| B-0008185 | biography | Dean Hutton | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008460 | biography | Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0148778 | biography | Ismail Jacob Mohamed | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0145906 | biography | Cecyl Esau | 1955-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008105 | biography | Denis Theodore Goldberg | 1933-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| B-0008532 | biography | Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda | 1916-1993 | – |
| B-0008215 | biography | Zweledinga Pallo Jordan | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008382 | biography | Yunus Ismail Mahomed | 1950-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008069 | biography | Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer | 1908-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0150196 | biography | Stella Nyanzi | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0149312 | biography | Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti | 1924-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0009245 | biography | Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma | 1893-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0084331 | biography | Michael Guthrie Scott | 1907-1983 | – |
| B-0007816 | biography | Richard Granville Baloyi | 1897-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0096364 | biography | Glenn Moss | 1952 | – |
| B-0008610 | biography | Yvonne Mokgoro | 1950 | – |
| B-0094070 | biography | Archie Mafeje | 1936-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0007890 | biography | Peter McKenzie Brown | 1924-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0065504 | biography | Nöel Robb | 1913-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0124151 | biography | Navanethem (Navi) Pillay | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0141659 | biography | Adrian Leftwich | 1940-2013 | ✓ |
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
Born in 1932, Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and secondary schooling in the…
BiographyRajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were from Kimberley in the…
BiographyReggie Williams
Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative…
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape…
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…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…
BiographyDean Hutton
Dean Hutton is a genderqueer artist living in Johannesburg interested in portraiture as co-authorship; social media as narrative; technology as self-reflection…
BiographyBarbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela was born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg. She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. Her…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother,…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
Denis Theodore Goldberg was born on 11th April 1933 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). His parents, Sam and Annie, had both been born in London,…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
Yunus Ismail Mahomed was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up in Jeppe, attending…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…
BiographyStella Nyanzi
Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of twins), she is a medical…
BiographyMalcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti
Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti was born in 1924 in the Kwalera district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham…
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'…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became 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…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
Archibald (also known as ‘Archie’) Mafeje was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
Peter Brown was born in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo game. Despite this,…
BiographyNöel Robb
Nöel Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife,…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…