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| B-0008267 | biography | Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008250 | biography | President Seretse Khama | 1921-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068386 | biography | Piet Retief | – | – |
| B-0008036 | biography | James Mata Dwane | 1848-1916 | ✓ |
| B-0123390 | biography | Gordon Sprigg | 1830-1913 | ✓ |
| B-0068173 | biography | Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker | 1910-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0095734 | biography | Sipo Elijah Mzimela | 1935-2013 | – |
| B-0073822 | biography | Hemant Kumar Waghmarae | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0087604 | biography | Dawid Kruiper | – | – |
| B-0008146 | biography | Abdool Kader Hassim | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0068309 | biography | Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay | 1908-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0068221 | biography | Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha | 1879-1958 | ✓ |
| B-0008949 | biography | Maggie Resha | 1923-2003 | – |
| B-0068385 | biography | Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha | 1923-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0094641 | biography | Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale | 1920-2004 | – |
| B-0122852 | biography | Robert Gabriel Mugabe | 1924-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007981 | biography | Johannes Jacobus Degenaar | 1926 | – |
| B-0094271 | biography | Cijimpi Mnyandu | – | ✓ |
| B-0122648 | biography | Olive Peace Landman | 1919 | – |
| B-0008542 | biography | Patric Tariq Mellet | 1956 | – |
| B-0008172 | biography | Patrick Holo | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0095354 | biography | Feziwe Bookholane | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0094076 | biography | Evelina de Bruin | 1933-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0065024 | biography | Arthur Goldreich | 1929-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008287 | biography | Sydney Kumalo | 1935-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0068680 | biography | Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri) | 1920-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0067328 | biography | Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos | 1879-1935 | – |
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up…
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of…
BiographyPiet Retief
Piet Retief was born on 12 November 1780 in the Wagenmakersvallei, (known as Wellington today), Cape Province. He was the fifth of 10 children of Jacobus, a…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
Early Life John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his…
BiographySipo Elijah Mzimela
Sipo Elijah Mzimela was born on 19 June 1935, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria Mzimela. The entire family was raised as Anglicans and…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. …
BiographyDawid Kruiper
Dawid Kruiper was born in the Kalahari National Park (now Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) in 1936. He referred to himself as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was…
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling…
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi Naidoo, was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district…
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
View the Ndabezitha Genealogical Tree Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha, the son of Dukuza, was born on 19 July 1879 at the Noodsberg Mission Station in the…
BiographyMaggie Resha
Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia Mamodise Tsiu, who had…
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia Mamodise Tsiu, who had…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of…
BiographyJohannes Jacobus Degenaar
Johannes Jacobus Degenaar was born on 7 March 1926 in Ladysmith. As a young man he was sent to the Cape to study at the University of Stellenbosch, where he…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
BiographyPatrick Holo
Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, which included cars,…
BiographyFeziwe Bookholane
Feziwe Bookholane was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her life, her parents…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…
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…
BiographySydney Kumalo
It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise…
BiographyViolet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg. She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the…
BiographyTielman Johannes de Villiers Roos
Tielman Roos was born in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South African College qualified as an advocate when he was only 23 years old. He…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200…