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| B-0125761 | biography | Percival Mdala | – | ✓ |
| B-0008699 | biography | Theo Mthembu | 1927-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0068246 | biography | Jordan Kush Ngubane | 1917-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008398 | biography | Romeo Zamani Makhanya | 1959 | – |
| B-0008384 | biography | Arthur Maimane | 1932-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008991 | biography | Jürgen Schadeberg | 1931-2020 | ✓ |
| A-0059844 | article | Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960 | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0068324 | biography | Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius | 1798-1853 | – |
| B-0008935 | biography | Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi | 1955 | – |
| B-0068192 | biography | George Naicker | 1919-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0080342 | biography | Rica Hodgson | 1920-2018 | – |
| B-0093704 | biography | David Hartman | 1961 | – |
| B-0080861 | biography | Elias Monare | – | – |
| B-0122673 | biography | Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino | 1851-1919 | – |
| B-0121589 | biography | Mary Sibande | 1982 | – |
| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0068263 | biography | Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng | 1958-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068153 | biography | Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar | 1914 | – |
| B-0008289 | biography | Taubie Kushlick | 1911-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0094070 | biography | Archie Mafeje | 1936-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008178 | biography | Hassan Howa | 1922-1992 | ✓ |
| R-0149951 | archive | Mandela's release - what a day this was in our history | 12 Feb 2020 | – |
| B-0065415 | biography | Walter Ulyate Sisulu | 1912-2003 | – |
| B-0122637 | biography | Abdullah Ibrahim | 1934 | – |
| B-0122793 | biography | Dali Tambo | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008440 | biography | Matome Maponya | 1949-2004 | – |
| B-0068162 | biography | King Mzilikazi | 1790-1868 | – |
| B-0094071 | biography | Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels | 1928-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008047 | biography | Virginia Engel | 1950-2015 | ✓ |
BiographyPercival Mdala
Percival Mdala grew up near King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape. He came to the Garden Route in 1956, where he found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton,…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
Theo Mthembu was born in Newcastle, KwaZulu Natal on 27 February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
Jordan Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in Ladysmith, he entered…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
BiographyArthur Maimane
Arthur Maimane was born on 5 October 1932 in Pietersburg. He completed his matric at St Peter's College in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was also known as…
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin, Germany on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
BiographyAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was born on 27 November 1798 near Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Colony. He was educated by travelling teachers and became an…
BiographyNgoako Abel Ramatlhodi
Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi was born on 21 August 1955 at Tauyatswala small village near Polokwane, in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Ramatlhodi's…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
BiographyRica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
BiographyDavid Hartman
Dave Hartman was born in 1961 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. His mother was born…
Elias Monare
Elias Monare, from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
BiographyMary Sibande
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist based in…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the African National Congress(ANC) activist and trade unionist John Nkadimeng. Nkadimeng skipped the country…
BiographyValiamma Munuswami Mudaliar
Valiamina Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of Gandhi’s Satyagraha in 1913. On 29 October Mudaliar and her mother…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to exert…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
Archibald (also known as ‘Archie’) Mafeje was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
ArchiveMandela's release - what a day this was in our history
We worked frantically through the night to call together out activists and put all the logistics in place for a normal rally: designed and printed pamphlets…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
South African musician, Abdullah Ibrahim was born on the 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa. Born Adolph Johannes Brand, he converted to Islam in 1968…
BiographyDali Tambo
Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane Tambo. When…
BiographyMatome Maponya
Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an existence on their…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what became Rhodesia and is now…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called …
BiographyVirginia Engel
Virginia Engel was born on 27 April 1950 in Cape Town. She married Desmond Engel and they have three daughters, Tania, Kim and Liza. Her exposure to apartheid…