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| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008640 | biography | Mohammed Valli Moosa | 1957 | – |
| B-0007801 | biography | Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper) | 1663 | – |
| B-0150953 | biography | Shaleen Surtie-Richards | 1955-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0123703 | biography | Sindiso Mfenyana | 1940 | – |
| B-0149256 | biography | Shapurji Sorabji | 1918 | ✓ |
| B-0153000 | biography | Reggie Williams | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0009240 | biography | Clive Zamani Xaba | 1980 | – |
| B-0008151 | biography | Ellen Phyllis Hellman | 1908-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008696 | biography | Richard Msimang | 1884-1933 | ✓ |
| B-0008240 | biography | Franklin Kaye Kendall | 1869-1948 | – |
| B-0008046 | biography | Captain Lancelot Andrew Ariba | 1891 | – |
| B-0069428 | biography | Johanna Catharina Cornelius | 1912-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0095716 | biography | Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana | 1938-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0080693 | biography | Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet | 1937-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0091115 | biography | Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis) | 1949-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0008164 | biography | Emily Hobhouse | 1860-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0007927 | biography | Norman Catherine | 1949 | – |
| B-0074124 | biography | Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0141692 | biography | Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn | 1934-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008098 | biography | Herschelle Herman Gibbs | 1974 | – |
| B-0148289 | biography | Khuzwayo Joe Mlangeni | 1936-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0149228 | biography | Mxolisi Mgxashe | 1944-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0098660 | biography | Patrice Émery Lumumba | 1925-1961 | – |
| B-0149402 | biography | Johannes Nkosi | 1905-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0150896 | biography | Babette Brown | 1931-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149457 | biography | Bafana Mkhize | 1958-2003 | – |
| B-0008547 | biography | Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman | 1809-1882 | – |
| B-0125868 | biography | Ephraim Chaka | 1924-1960 | ✓ |
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his…
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…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
It was, however, only at university that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained his BSc degree in…
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
Autshumao also known as Herry the strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English…
BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
Legendary stage, film, and television actress, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, was born on 7 May 1955 in Upington, Cape Province (now Northern Cape). She attended…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
Background and Childhood Sindiso Mfenyana is descended from the Bhele clan, which is an offshoot of the Hlubi tribe. He traces his roots back to a small town…
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
Shapurji Sorabji was born in Adajan, India. He belonged to a well-known Parsi family in Bombay and was a cousin of Parsee Rustomjee, a loyal friend of Gandhi…
BiographyReggie Williams
Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…
BiographyClive Zamani Xaba
Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from…
BiographyRichard Msimang
Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange…
BiographyFranklin Kaye Kendall
Kendall was an architect whose interests led him to join SASA as both artist and administrator. Born in Melbourne, Australia, 1870. He was educated at King\'s…
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…
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…
BiographyMtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana
Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a renowned saxophonist born on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth. The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at…
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…
Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)
Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis) was born in 1949 in Cape Town. In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students …
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
BiographyNorman Catherine
Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on the 2 April 1965, at Charteston Location, Nigel. She completed her junior primary education at the Jabavu East Community…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home…
BiographyHerschelle Herman Gibbs
Herschelle Gibbs, multi-talented South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town on 23 February 1974. He completed his secondary education at…
BiographyKhuzwayo Joe Mlangeni
Khuzwayo Joe Mlangeni along with four others were the first to be executed at the Pretoria Central prison for political reasons. This followed a clash at Cator…
BiographyMxolisi Mgxashe
Mxolisi “Bra Ace” Mgxashe was born in 1944. He joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s…
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day…
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced). Nkosi…
BiographyBabette Brown
A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world, Babette Brown was born in 1931 in Johannesburg,…
BiographyBafana Mkhize
He was born in Lamontville, Durban. He is a wood sculptor who was taught and encouraged by the Durban artist, George Msimang. He mainly uses railway sleepers…
BiographyBishop Nathaniel James Merriman
Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…
BiographyEphraim Chaka
Ephraim Chaka was born in 1924. His family came from Ladybrand, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He was married to Mirriam Chaka and together…