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| B-0068449 | biography | Gertrude Shope | 1925 | ✓ |
| B-0149495 | biography | Eddie J. Khaile | – | ✓ |
| B-0147938 | biography | Caleb Mayekiso | 1969 | ✓ |
| A-0099150 | article | The History of Separate Development in South Africa | 27 Mar 2015 | – |
| B-0068221 | biography | Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha | 1879-1958 | ✓ |
| B-0008305 | biography | Chris Ledochowski | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008832 | biography | Cedric Nunn | 1957 | ✓ |
| A-0013843 | article | Sophiatown in Literature | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0098749 | article | The History of LGBT legislation | 17 Dec 2014 | – |
| B-0153087 | biography | Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso) | 1943-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0149501 | biography | Vivian Fitzsimons | 1901-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0068943 | biography | Sydney Sipho Sepamla | 1932-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0007908 | biography | Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi | 1906-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0007873 | biography | Marutle Flag Boshielo | 1920 | ✓ |
| B-0007867 | biography | Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier | 1909-2005 | – |
| B-0008371 | biography | Princess Magogo | 1900-1984 | – |
| B-0068535 | biography | Nimrod Boyce Tantsi | – | – |
| B-0067163 | biography | Maggie Mikula | 1941-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0009106 | biography | Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom | 1893-1958 | – |
| B-0068145 | biography | Mavuso Walter Msimang | – | – |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0007828 | biography | Yetta Barenblatt | 1913-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008217 | biography | Helen Joseph | 1905-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0076346 | biography | Hugh Lewin | 1939-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0093741 | biography | Jimi Matthews | 1955 | ✓ |
| A-0098757 | article | Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa | 18 Dec 2014 | – |
| B-0008547 | biography | Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman | 1809-1882 | – |
| B-0009235 | biography | Honorine Margaret Withers | 1870-1956 | – |
| B-0150808 | biography | Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0149653 | biography | Stephen Joel Chifunyise | 1948-2019 | ✓ |
BiographyGertrude Shope
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years…
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the…
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, and sentenced to three years`…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act, passed…
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
View the Ndabezitha Genealogical Tree Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha, the son of Dukuza, was born on 19 July 1879 at the Noodsberg Mission Station in the…
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…
BiographyCedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
Introduction Discriminatory, separate and oppressive, these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from…
BiographyProfessor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April 1943 in Akure, Ondo…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali…
BiographyMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee Thuswa). He attended…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
Boshielo was born to a poor family in 1920 in Phokoane village, in the Sekhukhuneland district in Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo Province. Boshielo joined…
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen Silomo. In 1926 she married King Mathole…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
BiographyMaggie Mikula
Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959. She then went on to study for a Diploma…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of…
BiographyRahima Moosa
Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. As a teenager, Rahima and her identical…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…
BiographyHelen Joseph
Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Easebourne, United Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a…
BiographyHugh Lewin
Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university he joined the…
BiographyJimi Matthews
Jimi Matthews was born in 1955 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. After school he enrolled at a university that was…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black…
BiographyBishop Nathaniel James Merriman
Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
Honorine Margaret (Mabel) Withers was born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…