SAHO global search

1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… ( Gauteng ). She grew up in Sophiatown . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand … difficulties. No longer able to study,…

B-0097205

1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed.  In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa with the … to seek…

B-0007828

1912-1974

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

… Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was … in the Anglo Boer War , their mother being…

B-0069428

1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… in Richmond and in 1945 began part-time study toward a B.Com. Degree at the University of Natal. Going initially into business as an accountant, he later…

B-0009251

1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family … Thereafter he came to Port Elizabeth and began…

B-0068167

1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… 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 and … she was…

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1943-1987

John Ndevasia Muafangejo

… lo Nghadi, Ovamboland, Angola. In 1956 Muafangejo moved to die Anglican mission station at Epinga in South West … Muafangejo returned to Ovambo in 1976 and a…

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1875-1966

Walter Gilbert Wiles

… in South Africa  with his father in 1902. He returned to study in London in 1911. Upon his return he briefly stayed … to the Eastern Cape where h e initially…

B-0009227

1938-2016

Judith Mason

… University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a BA Degree in Fine Art. She married Professor Revil John … of the Witwatersrand, and changed her…

B-0122647

1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply … with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be…

B-0007840

1959-2024

Tito Mboweni

… between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He did not complete his …  because of his political activism, and left the…

B-0008523

1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… on 30 January 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and…

B-0008412

1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape … driven the train which took the body of Cecil…

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1967-1985

Sipho Philip Mutsi

… Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was arrested with …  Sipho Mutsi’s post-mortem autopsy showed…

B-0075593

1962

Molatodi Thomas Lehupela

… He attended Penyang Primary School and was forced to quit at grade six due to financial constraints.  At the … through clay. His imminent rose to fame came…

B-0008310

1939

Allina Ndebele

… and Ulla Gowenius, Swedish Missionaries who had been sent to South Africa to start a weaving workshop. She also assisted them as an unqualified … Ndebele…

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1857-1919

William Philip Schreiner

… Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' … Attorney General by  Cecil John Rhodes ,…

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… 1892. After his father died, Tolkien and his mother went to England settling in Birmingham. On 14 November 1904 his … him orphaned and Father Francis looked…

B-0009152

1956

Chris Ledochowski

… in Pretoria . He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school in Swaziland . After completing…

B-0008305

1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

… of the Methodist Church of South Africa and later a Member of Parliament for Pinelands. He attended Kearsney College, Natal from 1972 to 1974, and the…

B-0007872

1932-2009

Aidan Walsh

… 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from … worked as curator at the NSA before…

B-0009217

1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan … few rights of the Black majority…

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1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s from Pokroy, a small village in Lithuania and…

B-0008386

2012

Bongani Mdze

… for Lonmin in 2005. He was the first person in his family to work at the mines. On 16 August 2012 Bongani was killed at … leg and the back of his head. He…

B-0121615

1929-2010

Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews

… was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and anthropologist at the … University College of Fort Hare and graduated in…

B-0008499

1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… Lipman was born on 6 June, 1925 in Johannesburg into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African … and JB Marks . Following his graduation,…

B-0094738

Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape. He was raised on a farm by his parents.   Stofile matriculated from Newell … High School in Port Elizabeth . After that…

B-0068486

1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was a young boy and his … schooling at New castle…

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her … newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and…

B-0008554

1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child with is wife, Josephine, nee van Zyl. He went to the local primary…

B-0007948