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| B-0080352 | biography | Sedick Isaacs | 1939-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0141692 | biography | Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn | 1934-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149589 | biography | Jon Lynton David Hrusa | 1965-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0149403 | biography | Boy Mvemve | – | – |
| A-0065043 | article | Finding out about hunter-gatherers and herders | 28 May 2011 | – |
| A-0085148 | article | Peter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985 | 5 Jun 2012 | – |
| B-0149524 | biography | Ernst Heinrich Daniël Arndt | 1899-1983 | – |
| B-0149402 | biography | Johannes Nkosi | 1905-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0150896 | biography | Babette Brown | 1931-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0068743 | biography | Curtis Nkondo | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0095464 | biography | Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg | – | – |
| B-0068401 | biography | Emil Sachs | 1900-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008887 | biography | Jacob Hendrik Pierneef | 1886-1957 | – |
| A-0068568 | article | References and links: Learning from Leaders | 13 Oct 2011 | – |
| B-0121532 | biography | Diana Mary Mitchell | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008298 | biography | Constance Stuart Larrabee | 1914-2000 | – |
| B-0068475 | biography | Maniben Sita | 1926-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008886 | biography | Francois Pienaar | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0095270 | biography | Indres Naidoo | 1936-2016 | – |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0141659 | biography | Adrian Leftwich | 1940-2013 | ✓ |
| A-0016899 | article | Christianity | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0149238 | biography | Lex Mpati | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0149526 | biography | Abraham H. de Vries | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0148437 | biography | Joseph Fansio Mati | – | ✓ |
| B-0141531 | biography | Peter Sexford Magubane | 1932-2024 | ✓ |
| A-0091111 | article | Ruth First timeline 1925-2012 | 15 Aug 2012 | – |
| A-0100127 | article | Women in African Literature: Writing and Representation | 8 Jan 2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150368 | biography | Ntongela Masilela | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0141688 | biography | Harold Wolpe | 1926-1996 | ✓ |
BiographySedick Isaacs
Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…
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…
BiographyJon Lynton David Hrusa
Jon Lynton David Hrusa was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to study at Wits…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
Who were the hunter-gatherers? Many societies all over the world survived by hunting and gathering for most of the last 100 000 years. In southern Africa the…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
1919 Peter Abrahams is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in March 1919 to an Ethiopian father and a Coloured mother. His father passed away when he was young…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
Arndt, the youngest son of Reverend Johannes Arndt and Luise Pauline Grutzner was born in Bloemfontein on 27 May 1899. He started his education at the Infants’…
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,…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth…
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'…
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…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
Books Berens, P., J. Gurney & Rob Siebörger. (1996). Making History Standard 2. Johannesburg: Heinemann. Machado, A. M. (1994). Exploration into Latin…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…
BiographyManiben Sita
Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, (Marabastad, Pretoria) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly politically-active family…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a…
BiographyNorman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
Christianity
Christianity What do Christians believe? Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph. Source: atschool.eduweb.co.uk Christians, Jews and…
BiographyLex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
The South African writer, Abraham Hermanus de Vries, was born on Tuesday the 9th of February, in 1937, in a small town and agricultural centre of the western…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
Joseph Faniso Mati was born on a farm near Adelaide, Eastern Cape and grew up in Port Elizabeth. During high school, teachers encouraged students to attend…
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
Peter Sexford Magubane was born on January 18, 1932 in Vrededorp (now Pageview) Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is one of South Africa’s most…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latvia and Lithuania, respectively) who helped…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale…
BiographyNtongela Masilela
Professor Ntongela Masilela was born on 9 December 1948 in Orlando West, Soweto, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), the eldest son of Florence Vuyiswa Masilela…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…