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| B-0007947 | biography | Mimi Coertse | 1932 | ✓ |
| R-0150250 | archive | Where did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020) | 22 May 2020 | – |
| B-0066421 | biography | Harriet Bolton | 1927-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008192 | biography | John Tengo Jabavu | 1859-1921 | ✓ |
| B-0149347 | biography | David Moiloa | – | ✓ |
| B-0008191 | biography | Noni Jabavu | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| R-0153189 | archive | Did the TRC uncover the truth about McBride? by Piers Pigou, Mail and Guardian, 26 April 2001 | 17 Dec 2025 | – |
| B-0068704 | biography | Madi Gray | – | ✓ |
| R-0153385 | archive | These are the men who blew up Sasol and this is how they did it, by Esther Waugh, Sunday Independent, 17 December 1995, Part 1 | 27 Feb 2026 | – |
| B-0149301 | biography | Fanele Mbali | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0144655 | biography | Tim Bruwer | – | ✓ |
| B-0008001 | biography | Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo | 1943-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0074800 | biography | Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee | 1950-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0007902 | biography | Henry Burton | 1866-1935 | ✓ |
| B-0141659 | biography | Adrian Leftwich | 1940-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0148406 | biography | Richard Owen Dudley | 1924-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008325 | biography | Ronnie Levitan | 1943-2005 | – |
| B-0008435 | biography | Anna Victoria Mangena | 1885-1961 | – |
| B-0074811 | biography | Samuel Malinga | 1977 | ✓ |
| B-0125539 | biography | Jeremy Vearey | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008008 | biography | King Dinuzulu | 1868-1913 | – |
| B-0149224 | biography | Rabia Motala | 1932 | – |
| B-0066324 | biography | James Kantor | 1927-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0121674 | biography | Anton Edward Rupert | 1916-2006 | – |
| B-0008211 | biography | Peter Jones | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008065 | biography | Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial | 1908-1993 | – |
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008814 | biography | Nongqawuse | 1841-1898 | ✓ |
| B-0148518 | biography | Sebitji Frans Matlala | 1960 | ✓ |
BiographyMimi Coertse
Mimi Coertse was South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
BiographyHarriet Bolton
Harriet Bolton was born in 1927 in Makwassie in Southern Transvaal, the eldest of four children – a younger brother and two sisters. Her family moved around…
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…
BiographyDavid Moiloa
David Moiloa, a flamboyant, amusing orator often at the rear of events, had been imprisoned in Johannesburg during the 1952 Defiance Campaign. He was the…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…
ArchiveDid the TRC uncover the truth about McBride? by Piers Pigou, Mail and Guardian, 26 April 2001
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…
ArchiveThese are the men who blew up Sasol and this is how they did it, by Esther Waugh, Sunday Independent, 17 December 1995, Part 1
BiographyFanele Mbali
Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started…
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
Hoosen Mia Haffejee was born on 6 November 1950. Haffejee grew up in Pietermaritzburg and completed his primary schooling at St. Paul’s School and Marion…
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
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…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
Levitan was born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in…
BiographyAnna Victoria Mangena
She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal, probably between 1885 and…
Samuel Malinga
Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 1977.He had been detained at his home in…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
Jeremy Vearey was born in 1963 in Elsies River. He describes the area as a ‘different Elsies River’ than today as it was only around 50% built houses. It was a…
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After…
BiographyRabia Motala
Rabia “Choti” Motala was born in Kokstad, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1932. She completed her primary schooling in Kokstad at the local Coloured school but…
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…
BiographyAnton Edward Rupert
Anton Edward Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree,…
BiographyPeter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…
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'…
BiographyNongqawuse
History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…