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| B-0008057 | biography | Alexander Leor Fattal | 1979 | – |
| B-0074116 | biography | Jean Clarice Middleton | 1928-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0149493 | biography | Joseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo | – | ✓ |
| B-0149883 | biography | Rodger Bosch | – | ✓ |
| B-0068392 | biography | Sonja Schlesin | 1888-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0073822 | biography | Hemant Kumar Waghmarae | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008250 | biography | President Seretse Khama | 1921-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0148466 | biography | Franco Frescura | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0150808 | biography | Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0150463 | biography | Mary Matilda Brown | 1847-1935 | ✓ |
| B-0068316 | biography | George Gangen Ponnen | 1913-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0008741 | biography | Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa) | 1937-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0148511 | biography | Shapurji Jivanji Randeria | 1880-1945 | ✓ |
| B-0150406 | biography | Wendy Heather Woods | 1941-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008363 | biography | Moses Josiah Madiba | 1909-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0080454 | biography | Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0009068 | biography | Penny Siopis | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0007978 | biography | Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal | 1892-1950 | – |
| B-0008102 | biography | Graham Goddard | 1956 | – |
| B-0099749 | biography | Jomo Kenyatta | – | ✓ |
| A-0121546 | article | Namibian Timeline | 27 Jul 2016 | – |
| B-0148736 | biography | Ann Tobias | – | ✓ |
| B-0149337 | biography | Livingstone Mqotsi | 1921-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0150280 | biography | Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela | 1953-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0007945 | biography | Peter Clarke | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0124013 | biography | Thomas G. Karis | – | – |
| B-0008136 | biography | Harry Themba Gwala | 1920-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0149319 | biography | Mngqingo Pikani | – | ✓ |
BiographyAlexander Leor Fattal
Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts where his younger brother…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…
BiographyRodger Bosch
Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural events. Over the years, he has…
BiographySonja Schlesin
Sonja Schlesin was born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. …
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of…
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
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…
Mary Matilda Brown
Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform and was a campaigner…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father Ponnen, born in…
BiographyNdazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)
Ndazana Nathaniel (Nat) Nakasa was born on 12 May 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife,…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographyShapurji Jivanji Randeria
Shapurji Jivanji Randeria was born at Rander in the Surat district in India in 1880. He arrived in South Africa in 1900. He had passed the senior book-keeping…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
Wendy Heather Woods (neè Bruce) was born on 5 February 1941 in Mthatha (formerly Umtata), Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). An outstanding pupil in school,…
BiographyMoses Josiah Madiba
Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…
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…
BiographyPenny Siopis
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal was the son of the Jariam Singh, a former President of the Transvaal Indian Association. He received his early education at St Cyprian…
BiographyGraham Goddard
Graham Goddard was born in 1956 in Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
Introduction Since independence, English has been Namibia’s only official language. This was a controversial policy and remains contested. This timeline…
BiographyAnn Tobias
Ann Tobias was a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa during Apartheid. The party strongly opposed Apartheid policies and the government would go on to…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
BiographyPeter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and Dockyard handyman…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of…
BiographyMngqingo Pikani
At a 1953 meeting in Lusikisiki, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] betterment and the Bantu Authorities (BA) were rejected in the presence of the Paramount…