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| B-0008704 | biography | Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0124732 | biography | Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo | 1870-1946 | – |
| B-0007805 | biography | Baden Powell | 1857-1941 | – |
| B-0008472 | biography | Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) | 1935-2008 | – |
| B-0008917 | biography | Ethel Ruth Prowse | 1883-1967 | – |
| B-0095716 | biography | Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana | 1938-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0007874 | biography | Professor Carel Boshoff | 1927-2011 | – |
| B-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008481 | biography | Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima | 1915-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0065035 | biography | Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo | 1947-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0064865 | biography | Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0009134 | biography | Ngoako David Thebehali | 1938 | – |
| B-0009003 | biography | Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0008942 | biography | Dolly Rathebe | 1928-2004 | ✓ |
| P-0149755 | place | Witbank, Mpumalanga | 18 Nov 2019 | ✓ |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| B-0008185 | biography | Dean Hutton | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0009130 | biography | Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche | 1941-2010 | – |
| B-0008532 | biography | Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda | 1916-1993 | – |
| B-0008124 | biography | Paul Grendon | 1954-2019 | – |
| B-0008309 | biography | Ezrom Legae | 1938-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0098100 | biography | Soromini Kallichurum | 1932-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0096558 | biography | Willie Esterhuyse | 1936 | – |
| B-0007901 | biography | Sidney Percival Bunting | 1873-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0070371 | biography | Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu | 1932-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0095150 | biography | Ivan Toms | 1953-2008 | – |
| B-0007785 | biography | Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander | 1955-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008049 | biography | Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus | 1918-1973 | – |
| B-0068553 | biography | James M. Thaele | 1888-1948 | – |
| B-0008116 | biography | Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) | 1906-1999 | ✓ |
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… as did his mother who sold home-brewed alcohol to supplement the family income. Mufamadi’s mother was … Uprising, into other areas of the country, Mufamadi…
BiographyAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo
… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off … the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. One day in…
BiographyBaden Powell
… when he was 3 years old and his mother devoted herself to bringing up a rather large family of 10. Baden Powell and his brothers … Charterhouse School during…
BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
… her father, Daniel married his second wife, Notuthuzelo to whom Nomkhitha was the first child. He was a wealthy man who owned livestock. When she was 13, she…
BiographyEthel Ruth Prowse
… Ruth Prowse is known for her significant contribution to South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived…
BiographyMtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana
… Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a renowned saxophonist born on 18 July 1938 in Walmer … Pukwana grew up studying the piano at his home and went on to play with…
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… Carel Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He … During this time he had met J G Strijdom and H F…
BiographyDorothy Masuka
… of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the spiritual sources of inspiration for her songs that often came to…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
… Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in … rejected it. Matanzima, however, persuaded the Bunga to accept…
BiographyBusisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
… groups while still at school. Mhlongo was discovered by a Gallo Music (a recording company) talent scout. She then moved to Johannesburg, where she made a…
BiographyMpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom
… in 1975, were he was raised by his grandparents. He was a year old when the student riots broke out on 16 June 1976. Grootboom was a pupil at MorutaThutho…
BiographyNgoako David Thebehali
… were among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a pupil at St. Mary’s school in Orlando and went on to attend … In 1957 Thebehali…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
… political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young woman, Rathebe was drawn to the burgeoning and vibrant music scene in Sophiatown and ……
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… Established in 1890 as Witbank, it is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which more than 20 collieries operate. … , the young soldier-journalist Winston…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… Portuguese descent born in Kimberley , but she converted to Islam and took the name Amina. Fatima Meer's father, … the editor and publisher of Indian Views …
BiographyDean Hutton
… Dean Hutton is a genderqueer artist living in Johannesburg interested in … and provocation. Dean is exploring ways in which to build a love revolution, from…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
… bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and Gxumekelana Charles Mda, a headman, peasant farmer and shoemaker in their…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon was a prolific photographer and artist that used his art as a medium to…
BiographyEzrom Legae
… in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under one roof. During … at the Jubilee Art Centre from 1960 to…
BiographySoromini Kallichurum
… Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at the ‘non-White’ section of the University of Natal. She obtained a medical degree (MB ChB)…
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… farm. From humble beginnings, Professor Esterhuyse rose to become a leading Afrikaner writer, philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
… and editor of the Contemporary Review . His mother was a social worker serving the poor in London. Bunting was a talented intellectual who studied at…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
… Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the … Durban pass office. This was followed by the…
BiographyIvan Toms
… of Cape Town (UCT) in 1976. This was followed by a year-long medical internship at Kimberley Hospital, Northern Cape. In 1978, Toms was conscripted to serve…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where … Department of Manpower until 1981. In 1982,…
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
… Barend Jacobus Erasmus was born to Barend Jacobus Gerrit Wessel Erasmus and Susara Catharina … Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father was a…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
… M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied at …
BiographyDr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)
… English school . At the young age of 11, she became a pupil teacher, earning a salary of 10 shillings.Her parents, R.K. Naidoo and … and independent, so…