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| B-0064882 | biography | Michael Kitso Dingake | 1928 | ✓ |
| B-0094484 | biography | David Hemson | 1945-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0149494 | biography | Charles W H Kohler | 1862-1952 | ✓ |
| B-0149225 | biography | William Cock | 1793-1876 | ✓ |
| B-0008542 | biography | Patric Tariq Mellet | 1956 | – |
| B-0009119 | biography | Oliver Tambo | 1917-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008561 | biography | Alfred Milner | 1854-1925 | ✓ |
| B-0007905 | biography | Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi | 1928-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0149425 | biography | Sipho Samuel Hashe | 1934-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0150214 | biography | Ruth Naomi Leon | 1945-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0149832 | biography | Robert Anthony Basil Waterwitch | 1969-1989 | ✓ |
| A-0065047 | article | How do we find out about the history of a local area? | 28 May 2011 | – |
| B-0007909 | biography | Amina Cachalia | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0080574 | biography | Thoko Phillip Mamogobo | – | – |
| B-0008886 | biography | Francois Pienaar | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0122124 | biography | Jane Gool | 1902-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0093139 | biography | Jennifer Schreiner | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0141669 | biography | Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0150859 | biography | Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy | 1958-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0145906 | biography | Cecyl Esau | 1955-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0121659 | biography | Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo | 1936-1988 | – |
| B-0088575 | biography | Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo | 1928-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008601 | biography | Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba | 1933 | – |
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0082253 | biography | Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy | 1924-2020 | – |
| B-0007857 | biography | Advocate George Bizos | 1927-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008474 | biography | Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini | 1957-1990 | – |
| B-0125334 | biography | Isaac Williams Wauchope | 1852-1917 | ✓ |
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). He attended the Bobonong Primary School…
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
BiographyOliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland …
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the Cape Province (now…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
Stories and Interviews as oral histories Stories or ‘oral histories’ tells us about the past through the spoken word as told by one generation to the next. It…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
Amina Cachalia (née Asvat) was born on 28 June 1930, Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
Thoko Phillip Mamagobo, popularly known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as…
BiographyJane Gool
Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from India,…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923,he was one of seven children in a rural family that was later…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane…
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 …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs'kia [Ezekiel]…
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy affectionately known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a century. He…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi described Isaac Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced…