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| B-0065251 | biography | Luis Inácio Lula da Silva | 1945 | – |
| B-0098784 | biography | Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza | 1938-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008936 | biography | Mewa Ramgobin | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008360 | biography | Sakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma | 1957 | – |
| B-0007779 | biography | Paul Alberts | 1946-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0007922 | biography | Cheryl Carolus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0094484 | biography | David Hemson | 1945-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0067724 | biography | Benjamin Magson Kies | 1917-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0068113 | biography | Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0085118 | biography | Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang | 1940-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0080864 | biography | Mary Moodley | 1913-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0122124 | biography | Jane Gool | 1902-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0067164 | biography | Julius Sello Malema | 1981 | ✓ |
| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008413 | biography | Nise Bulelwa Malange | – | ✓ |
| B-0068401 | biography | Emil Sachs | 1900-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0066513 | biography | King Cetshwayo | 1826-1884 | ✓ |
| B-0008887 | biography | Jacob Hendrik Pierneef | 1886-1957 | – |
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008106 | biography | David Goldblatt | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008131 | biography | Josiah Tshangana Gumede | 1867-1946 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0084116 | biography | Mzwakhe Mbuli | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0122541 | biography | Pitika Ntuli | 1942 | – |
| B-0008419 | biography | Daniël Francois Malherbe | 1881-1969 | – |
| B-0008244 | biography | Solomon Kerzner | 1935 | – |
| B-0008139 | biography | George Hallett | 1942-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0094641 | biography | Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale | 1920-2004 | – |
| B-0122648 | biography | Olive Peace Landman | 1919 | – |
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil.President Lula had little…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents arrived in Natal as indentured labourers. His…
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Gastrow, S. (1992) Who`s Who in South African politics Number 4.p.67. If you would…
BiographyPaul Alberts
Paul Alb erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria. He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo…
BiographyCheryl Carolus
Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was employed as a printer’s assistant and her…
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…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South…
BiographyMary Moodley
Mary Moodley, or Aunty Mary as she was known, was born on 14 March 1914 in Jaggersfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10…
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,…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
Early years and Political involvement Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant,…
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…
BiographyEmil Sachs
Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs'…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef was born on 13 August 1886 in Pretoria from Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in…
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 …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and his mother were…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
Daniël Francois Malherbe was born on 28 May 1881 in Dal Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners …
BiographySolomon Kerzner
Please note: Silber, G. (1999) “Solomon Kerzner” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika…