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| B-0009091 | biography | Janet Burnside Soga | 1827-1903 | ✓ |
| B-0008460 | biography | Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela | 1941 | ✓ |
| A-0068539 | article | References and links: Local History | 12 Oct 2011 | – |
| A-0064767 | article | Jason Laure | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| B-0148533 | biography | Steven Eli Friedman | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0148189 | biography | Themba Godi | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0150128 | biography | Harry Garuba | 1958-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0007999 | biography | Christiaan Rudolf De Wet | 1854-1922 | ✓ |
| B-0009114 | biography | Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart | 1894-1982 | – |
| B-0120698 | biography | Mohamed Ismail Dinat | 1937-2015 | – |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0008538 | biography | Ismail Chota Meer | 1918-2000 | – |
| B-0122927 | biography | Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia | 1924-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008532 | biography | Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda | 1916-1993 | – |
| B-0008215 | biography | Zweledinga Pallo Jordan | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0121736 | biography | Randolph Hartzenberg | 1948 | – |
| B-0151645 | biography | Professor Brij Maharaj | – | – |
| B-0149541 | biography | Albert Newall | 1920-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0121280 | biography | Wilfrid Edward Cooper | 1926-2004 | – |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0141676 | biography | Hassim Mohamed Seedat | 1930-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149347 | biography | David Moiloa | – | ✓ |
| B-0148532 | biography | Paula Ensor | – | ✓ |
| B-0008003 | biography | Bartolomeu Dias | 1450-1500 | ✓ |
| B-0007921 | biography | Fred Carneson | 1920-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0125758 | biography | Stephen Marais | 1956 | – |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0068655 | biography | Frederik van Zyl Slabbert | 1940-2010 | – |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
Janet Burnside Soga
Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots…
BiographyBarbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela was born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg. She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. Her…
References and links: Local History
Books Cameron T. (ed) 1986. An Illustrated History of South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. Carruthers V. 2000. The Magaliesberg. 2nd ed. Pretoria:…
Jason Laure
Born: Chehalis, Washington, USA, 1949. Resides in Cape Town. Studied at Columbia University, New York City and Sorbonne, Paris. Awards: Pulitzer Prize finalist…
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
Steven Eli Friedman was born on 31 March 1953 in Johannesburg. In 1971 Friedman began studying at the University of Witwatersrand. While at University, he…
BiographyThemba Godi
Themba Godi was born on 10August 1966 in the Village of Matsavana, Bushbuckridge in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). Godi commenced his primary…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
Christiaan de Wet was born at Leeuwkop near Smithfield, Orange Free State, on 7 October 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group…
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…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia was born on 28 March 1924 at Coedmore Road, Bellair, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Natoo Babenia’s political activism…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…
BiographyRandolph Hartzenberg
Randolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance. Through his paintings,…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
Prof Brij Maharaj was born in 1957 in Merebank, south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN). His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a shop assistant at a…
BiographyAlbert Newall
Albert Newall was born in 1920 in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Newall enlisted with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1937, where he trained and later served…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in Mowbray until he…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with…
BiographyHassim Mohamed Seedat
Hassim Seedat, was born in Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1930. His family came to Newcastle as traders in the late 1880s. He attended St Oswalds…
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…
BiographyPaula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a…
BiographyFred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine…
Stephen Marais
Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape, however, there are other…
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and his twin sister were born on 2 March 1940 in Pretoria to Barbara Zacharia Hagen and Petrus Johannes Slabbert. Slabbert attended…
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…