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| B-0149403 | biography | Boy Mvemve | – | – |
| A-0068601 | article | Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa | 14 Oct 2011 | – |
| B-0008144 | biography | Imam Abdullah Haron | 1924-1969 | ✓ |
| A-0096852 | article | World War I Timeline 1914 | 13 Jan 2014 | – |
| B-0149337 | biography | Livingstone Mqotsi | 1921-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0149212 | biography | Julia Nicol | Unknown-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0080864 | biography | Mary Moodley | 1913-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0073823 | biography | Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi | 1950 | – |
| B-0008609 | biography | Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle | 1911-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008051 | biography | Suliman Moosa Esakjee | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008084 | biography | Wilhelmina Louisa Freund | 1890-1938 | ✓ |
| B-0098973 | biography | Durant Basi Sihlali | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0068220 | biography | James Madhlope Phillips | 1919-1987 | – |
| B-0080980 | biography | Jafta Kgalabi Masemola | – | – |
| B-0076350 | biography | Billy Paddock | – | – |
| B-0123949 | biography | Mokgadi Caster Semenya | 1991 | ✓ |
| B-0094568 | biography | Esme Bodenstein | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0141678 | biography | John Marinus Ferus | 1940-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0147999 | biography | Alfred Toto Metele | 2008 | ✓ |
| B-0150420 | biography | Rebecca Lan | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0149402 | biography | Johannes Nkosi | 1905-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0150398 | biography | Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden | 1923-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150389 | biography | Selloane Ethel Leisa | 1914-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0149881 | biography | Lloyd Spencer | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0125321 | biography | Makhanda Nxele | 1780-1820 | ✓ |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
| B-0149630 | biography | Ellen Elmendorp | – | ✓ |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
| B-0007781 | biography | Kerr Alexander | 1885-1970 | – |
| B-0008376 | biography | Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane | 1881-1971 | ✓ |
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
Imam Abdullah Haron was born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife, by Serbian…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
BiographyMary Moodley
Mary Moodley, or Aunty Mary as she was known, was born on 14 March 1914 in Jaggersfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10…
BiographyJacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi
Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg. Selebi was the African National Congress (ANC) representative to the Soviet Union's…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographySuliman Moosa Esakjee
Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its inception. He served as…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German…
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
Durant Basi Sihlali was born on 5 March 1935 in an industrial area, Germiston, Transvaal, now known as Gauteng Province. Due to harsh living conditions, his…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. His father died while he was still young and this had negative socio…
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many others, was born at Bon Accord near Pretoria on 12 December 1931. He…
BiographyBilly Paddock
Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where he excelled at…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child,…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
Esme Bodenstein was born on 6 July 1929 in Johannesburg. She trained as a physiotherapist at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Cape Town. There…
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
BiographyAlfred Toto Metele
Alfred Toto Metele was born to farmworker parents,in the farming area of Qumhra, Eastern Cape. He attended school at Mooiplaas, outside East London, where he…
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced). Nkosi…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
Selloane Ethel Leisa was born on 22* February 1914 in Ga-Marishane, Northern Transvaal, (now Limpopo Province). Upon completing her schooling, she moved to…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
BiographyEllen Elmendorp
Ellen Elmendorp was born in the Netherlands and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina,…
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…
BiographyKerr Alexander
Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous…