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| B-0148784 | biography | Oupa Ronald Madondo | 1948-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0150017 | biography | Leigh Davids | 1979-2019 | – |
| R-0153502 | archive | SA Air Force operation, 20 December 1983, Fourth party congress-Cabinet reshuffle-Relations with South Africa-MNRM actions, Keesing_s Record of World Events, Vol 29, December 1983 | 8 Apr 2026 | – |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0064855 | biography | Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu | 1953-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0094430 | biography | Billy Modise | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0095356 | biography | Douglas Chadwick Thompson | 1905-1985 | – |
| B-0068196 | biography | Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo | 1908-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0064852 | biography | Matthew Goniwe | 1947-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0149432 | biography | Judge Erns Jansen | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0148453 | biography | Lot Kgagudi Maredi | – | ✓ |
| B-0125085 | biography | Evelyn Ntoko Mase | 1922-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0124272 | biography | Sunny Girja Singh | 1939-2025 | – |
| B-0008814 | biography | Nongqawuse | 1841-1898 | ✓ |
| A-0122278 | article | Caste - meaning, profession, religion | 9 Nov 2016 | – |
| B-0008339 | biography | Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski | 1953-1989 | – |
| B-0067743 | biography | Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long | 1891-1922 | – |
| B-0009262 | biography | Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu | 1905-1988 | – |
| B-0009218 | biography | David Joseph Webster | 1944-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008880 | biography | Myron Peter | – | ✓ |
| B-0093854 | biography | Roger Meintjes | 1963 | – |
| B-0150806 | biography | Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) | 1932 | ✓ |
| A-0068667 | article | The Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973 | 17 Oct 2011 | – |
| B-0149288 | biography | Winston Ntshona | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0148284 | biography | Mathews Phosa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0149640 | biography | Glynn Griffiths | 1950-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0150470 | biography | Eve Hall | 1937-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
Oupa Ronald Madondo (known as MK Scorpion) was born on 20 May 1948 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 December 1983, Fourth party congress-Cabinet reshuffle-Relations with South Africa-MNRM actions, Keesing_s Record of World Events, Vol 29, December 1983
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and Queen Johanna Selepi, was born on…
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…
BiographyBilly Modise
Billy Modise was born on 8 December 1930 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He received an Anglican scholarship which enabled him to…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
Douglas Chadwick Thompson was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and…
BiographyManonmoney "Ama" Naidoo
Manonmony Pillay was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 November 1908. Her family was originally from the Thanjavur district in India and her…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
Matthew Goniwe was born on 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His parents David and Elizabeth were farm…
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
Judge Erns Jansen was born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 June 1918. He was the son of Ernest Jansen, Minister of Native Affairs in the National Party…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
Following widespread resistance, the Native Affairs Department (NAD) was forced to abolish the Bapedi tribal authority because of a lack of support. This led…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
Sunny Girja Singh was born in Cato Manor (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father, Girjabaksh, came to…
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…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. Also associated with Brahmin class. www.boards…
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski was born on 3 February 1953, in South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly…
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
Samuel Alfred Long was born in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home when he was…
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…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle…
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…
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…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were shocked, and they responded mainly by giving in…
BiographyWinston Ntshona
Wintson Ntshona was born on 6 October 1941 in Port Elizabeth. He matriculated from Newell High School where he performed in school plays with John Kani. During…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
BiographyEve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…