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| 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 | – |
| E-0011362 | event | The first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0141684 | biography | Alfred Mangena | 1879-1924 | ✓ |
| B-0149507 | biography | Robert Broom | 1866-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
| A-0063099 | article | Zulu | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
| B-0141693 | biography | Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala | 1877-Unknown | ✓ |
| B-0149743 | biography | Sandile Dikeni | 1966-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149474 | biography | Tennyson Xola Makiwane | 1933-1980 | – |
| B-0149314 | biography | Gubuzela Ngubane | – | ✓ |
| B-0008042 | biography | Ethel Edwards | 1880 | – |
| B-0149239 | biography | Coopoosamy Naidoo | – | – |
| B-0068388 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Roux | 1903-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0007813 | biography | Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger | 1894-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008086 | biography | Harold Athol Fugard | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0007960 | biography | Hester Elizabeth Cornelius | 1907-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0065030 | biography | Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert | 1920-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0068252 | biography | Sifiso Nkabinde | 1960-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0096277 | biography | Helen Kies | 1926-2017 | ✓ |
| A-0059322 | article | National Party (NP) | 30 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0149212 | biography | Julia Nicol | Unknown-2019 | ✓ |
| A-0096954 | article | The missionaries | 31 Jan 2014 | – |
| B-0008533 | biography | Zanemvula Kizito Mda | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008543 | biography | Gideon Mendel | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0149882 | biography | Mike Hutchings | 1963 | ✓ |
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…
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
… the receiver before coagulation occurred. However, in the 1910s, it was discovered that adding anticoagulant to blood …
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…
BiographyAlfred Mangena
Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study…
BiographyRobert Broom
Professor Robert Broom was born on 30 November 1866 Paisley, Scotland to a poor family. He was educated as a doctor and received his degree from the University…
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…
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…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
BiographySandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He…
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…
BiographyGubuzela Ngubane
The documentation related to the banishment of Gubuzela Ngubane provides an account of the historical process by which the Ntanzi community came in the 19th…
BiographyEthel Edwards
On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African Artists". In it she stands…
BiographyCoopoosamy Naidoo
Coopoosamy, the eldest son of Thambi and Veerammal Naidoo, was sentenced in 1909 to seven days with hard labour for hawking without licence. He went hawking…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
Edward Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where his father…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and his…
BiographyHester Elizabeth Cornelius
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her family was very nationalistic, with both her…
BiographyIsmail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert
Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Nkabinde attend…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three…
BiographyHelen Kies
Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape. Despite a very poor childhood, her father ensured that she received an…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a…
BiographyGideon Mendel
Gideon Mendel was born on 31st August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic…
BiographyMike Hutchings
Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in South Africa in 1980. His earliest…