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| B-0153080 | biography | Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize) | 20 January-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0150095 | biography | Dan Sleigh | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0150362 | biography | Pauline Podbrey | 1922-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0151628 | biography | Gladys Thomas | 1935-2022 | ✓ |
| B-0008192 | biography | John Tengo Jabavu | 1859-1921 | ✓ |
| B-0008169 | biography | Barbara Anne Hogan | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008789 | biography | Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo | 1903-1957 | – |
| B-0096558 | biography | Willie Esterhuyse | 1936 | – |
| B-0095354 | biography | Feziwe Bookholane | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0081677 | biography | Motsoko Pheko | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0093814 | biography | Aaron Mosibudi Mangena | 1947 | ✓ |
| A-0098708 | article | 1970’s: Poetry Timeline | 2 Dec 2014 | – |
| B-0008471 | biography | Emma Thandi Mashinini | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008849 | biography | Kate O’Regan | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0099632 | biography | Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0009155 | biography | Andries Treurnicht | 1921-1993 | – |
| B-0007853 | biography | Jodi Bieber | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008791 | biography | Carl Niehaus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0067753 | biography | Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0149743 | biography | Sandile Dikeni | 1966-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149881 | biography | Lloyd Spencer | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0147318 | biography | Mohamed Farouk Asvat | – | – |
| B-0008609 | biography | Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle | 1911-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0097631 | biography | Denis Mayer | 1923-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008529 | biography | Peter McKenzie | 1955-2017 | – |
| B-0122541 | biography | Pitika Ntuli | 1942 | – |
| B-0068487 | biography | General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008120 | biography | Joe Nzingo Gqabi | 1929-1981 | ✓ |
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young…
BiographyDan Sleigh
South African novelist and historian Daniel (Dan) Sleigh was born on 3 November 1938, on a farm, Geelbeksfontein, near Langebaan in the Western Cape. He was…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933, the family immigrated…
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His parents, though poor, were anxious to give him…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and completed her matric at St…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange Free…
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
Professor Willem Petrus Esterhuyse (Willie) Esterhuyse was born in 1936 in Laingsburg, Western Province (now Western Cape), on his father’s farm. From humble…
BiographyFeziwe Bookholane
Feziwe Bookholane was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
1971 Closure of The Classic, by Nat Nakasa, editor. Publication of ‘Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’, Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, by Renoster Books,…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…
BiographyKate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude)…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘homeland’, now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents…
BiographyAndries Treurnicht
Andries Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Cape Town. He attended Piketberg High School where he matriculated in 1939…
BiographyJodi Bieber
Jodi Bieber has lived in Johannesburg for the past 35 years. She studied photography at the Market Theatre photographic workshop, a non-profit organisation…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge was born in KwaZulu-Natal on 29 June 1952. She attended Magog and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the…
BiographySandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He…
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…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
BiographyPeter McKenzie
Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda McKenzie. He attended…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to…