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| B-0008114 | biography | Goolam H. Gool | 1905-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0008732 | biography | Jayaseelen Naidoo | 1954 | – |
| B-0008953 | biography | Eschel Mostert Rhoodie | 1933-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0080013 | biography | Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0070663 | biography | Daniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi | 2006 | ✓ |
| B-0068083 | biography | Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg | 1938-2011 | – |
| B-0008931 | biography | Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul | 1952 | – |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0068521 | biography | Isaac Bangani Tabata | 1909 | ✓ |
| B-0068069 | biography | Dr Silas Modiri Molema | 1891-1965 | – |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0093589 | biography | Thenjiwe Mtintso | 1950 | ✓ |
| A-0099592 | article | The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa | 12 Jun 2015 | – |
| A-0016851 | article | Black South African literature | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0008415 | biography | Chief Malebogo | 1939 | – |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0124602 | biography | Laurent Kabila | 1939-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0008203 | biography | Wopko Jensma | 1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008046 | biography | Captain Lancelot Andrew Ariba | 1891 | – |
| B-0066279 | biography | Mapetla Frank Mohapi | 1947-1976 | – |
| B-0069428 | biography | Johanna Catharina Cornelius | 1912-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0009251 | biography | Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa | 1923-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0080047 | biography | Nkosinathi Benson Fihla | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0080693 | biography | Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet | 1937-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0123560 | biography | Juda Ngwenya | 2016 | – |
| B-0068317 | biography | Vera Ponnen | 1915-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0068389 | biography | Sorabjee Rustomjee | 1895-1960 | – |
| P-0122992 | place | Angola | 9 Mar 2017 | ✓ |
| A-0063099 | article | Zulu | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
Jayaseelen “Jay” Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo…
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto. He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high school education at…
BiographyJannie “Jan Bek” Momberg
Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. He later studied at Stellenbosch University…
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb an. In 1961 his family was…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
Isaac Bangani Tabata (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After attending Fort…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
Dr. Silas Modiri Molema (Silas Modiri) was born in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
Thenjiwe Mtintso, was born on 7 November 1950 in Soweto, Johannesburg where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… and migration of women into urban areas in the early 1900s led to a consistent increase of women employed in …
ArticleBlack South African literature
The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
BiographyChief Malebogo
Malebogo (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the…
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…
BiographyLaurent Kabila
Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth…
BiographyWopko Jensma
Wokpo was born on 26 July 1939 in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom, but his studies were temporally…
BiographyCaptain Lancelot Andrew Ariba
Captain Lancelot Andrew Elsworth Ariba was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1891. He served in World War I with distinction and late studied architecture in Leeds…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was very nationalistic, with both their father and…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Fihla grew up in PE from 1945, after his parents…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he…
BiographyVera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed…
PlaceAngola
… the independence of the Kingdom of Kongo, and by the early 1900s the Kingdom was integrated into the Portuguese colony … of Kongo would lose all remaining…
ArticleZulu
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim was born in Durban on 29 May 1936. Ebrahim cut his political teeth in Trotskyite circles while studying at Sastri College and Natal…