SAHO global search

2012

Nkosiyabo Xalabile

… wife, mother, sister and two nieces. He had been married to his wife, Lilita Xalabile, for little over a month when he was killed. He had just returned to…

B-0121639

1948

Justice Zac Yacoob

… Durban's Arthur Blaxall School for the Blind from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he studied for a BA and from 1970 to 1972, completed an LLB at the … A…

B-0083820

1966

Zola Budd

… Africa, the world track and field establishment refused to recognise the record. However, she was later to claim the … Great Britain in 1985, clocking 14:48…

B-0007896

1927-1994

Mizream Maseko

… was born on 10 June 1927. Maseko began his career as a house painter after completing his studies in Transvaal. He … and took up painting designs and…

B-0008465

1886-1964

Dorothy Moss Kay

… studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 with her husband, Dr Hobart Kay, finally … was no local art society in Port…

B-0008235

1940-2005

Nesta Mathom Nala

… common-law husband (Nesta Nala’s paternal grandmother). As a single parent, Nesta Nala has raised and supported her … (Greenberg)[i] and has taught five of…

B-0008744

1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo matriculated from Sastri College, … Durban in 1972. Apartheid politics…

B-0008732

1967

Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo

… Secondary School, Nko was at the forefront in the struggle to get the Students Representative Council established and … unbanning of political organizations,…

B-0068701

1950

Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi

… The 1960s forced removals saw his family relocating to  Diepkloof in Soweto where subsequently attended Orlando … days hard labour for failing to show the…

B-0068439

1976

Jacob Zungwane Mashabane

… On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at the Johannesburg Fort…

B-0074817

1941-2020

Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala

… district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the internationally renowned South African vocal … heard the vocal harmonies the group became famous…

B-0009027

1936

Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker

… Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration camp as a child before moving to South Africa.He attended Durban High School…

B-0080013

1938-2011

Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg

… studied at Stellenbosch University where he is reputed to have been a ladies’ man, a socialite and-rebel. It is believed that as a young man he … ANC Member…

B-0068083

1952

Ari Sitas

… Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key … of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the…

B-0121912

1956

Ben Mclennan

… was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He … but did not complete the degree. In…

B-0093701

1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… South African Native College (University of Fort Hare) for a BA degree. However, his studies were interrupted when Chief Ofentse Pilane requested him to…

B-0008627

1922

Elsa Joubert

… (MA in Afrikaans-Nederlands). Within two years of starting a career as a high school teacher in Cradock she became editor of  Die … South African society. In…

B-0008221

1952

Barbara Anne Hogan

… at the University of Witwatersrand where she obtained a degree in Development Studies. While at Wits, Hogan joined a group of students who actively opposed…

B-0008169

1656-1734

Anna De Koningh

… father was is unknown. Like her mother, Anna de Koning was to make quite a name for herself at the Cape, moving from being a slave to becoming the mistress…

B-0122374

1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest … 1969. He then enrolled at the…

B-0093814

1949

Linda Komape

… politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with her husband who abused her. After their divorce, she began work in a factory…

B-0008273

1927-2005

Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse

… against apartheid for more than three decades, rising to prominence - including membership of the cabinet and … belonged to the Non-European Unity Movement…

B-0008153

1945

Barry “Anderson” Richards

… cricket for Natal at his early teens and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior team in the early sixties. In 1967 he took a contract with an English…

B-0008957

Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

… and aspiring musicians. For instance, in 1990 she took a group of young musicians to the International Children’s Jazz Festival in Canada. On her return she…

B-0096273

1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in the Transkei and was a member of…

B-0008232

1929-2008

Billy Nair

… on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten) Nair, an engineer's assistant in a cargo vessel which transported…

B-0008740

1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… Affairs in Thabo Mbeki’s cabinet. Together, they have a 15-year-old son named Loyiso Ngcuka. In 1977 Ngcuka … at the University of Fort Hare. In 1980 he was…

B-0008775

1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… out of his family's oppressed past. His grandfather, a Talmudic scholar, had fled the pogroms in Lithuania to England. His father Woolfie, was born in…

B-0087605