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| B-0008427 | biography | Joseph Manana | 1964 | – |
| B-0008198 | biography | Gavin Jantjes | 1948 | – |
| B-0068553 | biography | James M. Thaele | 1888-1948 | – |
| B-0095544 | biography | Zimasile Ngqawana | 1959-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0073829 | biography | Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu | – | ✓ |
| B-0095118 | biography | Barney Simon | 1932-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0008116 | biography | Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) | 1906-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0068665 | biography | Anna Zieminski | 1957 | – |
| B-0068245 | biography | Lillian Masediba Ngoyi | 1911-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008235 | biography | Dorothy Moss Kay | 1886-1964 | – |
| B-0008099 | biography | Marion Gill | 1879-1959 | – |
| B-0008744 | biography | Nesta Mathom Nala | 1940-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0068445 | biography | Errol T. Shanley | 1911-2002 | – |
| B-0098479 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Asvat | 1940 | ✓ |
| E-0011825 | event | Gana Makabeni dies | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0059193 | article | Community histories in Port Elizabeth | 30 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0099115 | article | Grade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa | 20 Mar 2015 | – |
| B-0122852 | biography | Robert Gabriel Mugabe | 1924-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008597 | biography | Santu Mofokeng | 1956-2020 | – |
| R-0125390 | archive | CHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo | 27 Sep 2018 | – |
| B-0122621 | biography | Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi | 1936-1973 | – |
| B-0125661 | biography | Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo | 1947-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008498 | biography | Don Mattera | 1935 | – |
| B-0007819 | biography | Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi | 1865 | – |
| B-0074549 | biography | Tiyani Lybon Mabasa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008933 | biography | Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe | 1937-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0068251 | biography | Dr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe | 1919-1976 | – |
| B-0068219 | biography | Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho | 1931-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0068150 | biography | Jackson Mthembu | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0008200 | biography | Abdulhay Jassat | 1934 | – |
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
BiographyGavin Jantjes
Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
James 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…
BiographyZimasile Ngqawana
Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children,…
BiographyProfessor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu
Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South…
BiographyBarney Simon
Barney Simon, South African theatre director (born April 13, 1932, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind…
BiographyDr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)
Dr Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) was born in 1906 in Durban. She grew up in Grey Street, with three brothers and three sisters. Along with her…
BiographyAnna Zieminski
Anna Zieminski was born in Cape Town, South Africa in February 1957. She schooled at St Mary's Dominican Convent and the University of Cape Town. In 1983 and…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually took up work as a…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in…
BiographyMarion Gill
Marion Gill was born in 1879, United Kingdom. She lived in SA from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve,…
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents and Anna Else Bernhardt born in Hamburg…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Asvat
Ebrahim Ismail Asvat (Aswat) was born in Surat, India. He was a committed passive resister from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the…
EventGana Makabeni dies
… Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, died in the Western Native Township, Johannesburg. He …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa Townships and Homelands The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans and …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… after South Africa went off the gold standard. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s …
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…
BiographySantu Mofokeng
Born in 1956, Mofokeng grew up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial experiences with…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
Gwigwi Mrwebi, also called ‘Bra Gwigwi’, whose birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught…
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo…
BiographyDon Mattera
Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a…
BiographyChief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi
Chief Bhambatha (sometimes spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi…
BiographyTiyani Lybon Mabasa
Tiyani Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in Soweto.During his high…
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
Daniel Sefudi (Dan) Rakgoathe was born on 25 February 1937 in Randfontein, Transvaal. From Standard VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr Maseko, one f the first…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (Bra Ike) was born in Ga-Makgato (Blouberg Municipality) on 26 February 1931. He completed his Standard 6 (Grade Eight) at Uitkyk…
BiographyJackson Mthembu
Jackson Mthembu was born in June 5th,1958 in Witbank. He grew up in Kromkrans, a reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal,…
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s…