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| Src | ||||
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| B-0124819 | biography | Allister Sparks | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0068675 | biography | Letsau Nelson Diale | 1936-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0099474 | biography | Job Patja Kekana | 1916 | ✓ |
| B-0008859 | biography | Frederick Hutchinson Page | 1908-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0008976 | biography | Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs | 1935 | – |
| B-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0008159 | biography | Baruch Hirson | 1921-1999 | – |
| B-0093133 | biography | Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0094568 | biography | Esme Bodenstein | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0008192 | biography | John Tengo Jabavu | 1859-1921 | ✓ |
| B-0008120 | biography | Joe Nzingo Gqabi | 1929-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0008057 | biography | Alexander Leor Fattal | 1979 | – |
| B-0008010 | biography | Stephen J.C. Dlamini | 1913-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0007957 | biography | Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0095355 | biography | Basil Coetzee | 1944-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0074116 | biography | Jean Clarice Middleton | 1928-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0068907 | biography | King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu | 1948-2021 | – |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008609 | biography | Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle | 1911-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008424 | biography | Rebecca Malope | 1968 | ✓ |
| B-0085550 | biography | Thabo Marcus Motaung | 1955-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0009237 | biography | Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood | 1874-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0096897 | biography | Stanley Huette Uys | 1922-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
| B-0095996 | biography | Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo | 1924 | – |
| B-0009239 | biography | Gisele Wulfsohn | 1957-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0095437 | biography | Winston Monwabisi Ngozi | 1943-2009 | – |
| B-0095164 | biography | Anne-Marie Wolpe | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0068272 | biography | Philemon Pearce Nokwe | 1927-1978 | – |
BiographyAllister Sparks
Allister Sparks was born to Harold Sparks and Bernice Stephen on 10 March 1933 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape. This made him a fifth generation settler, with his…
BiographyLetsau Nelson Diale
Nelson Diale was born on 1st January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane Maphutha. In…
BiographyJob Patja Kekana
Jon Patja Kekana was born on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. Kekana’s…
BiographyFrederick Hutchinson Page
Fred Page is best-known for his eerie images which, according to one critic, have made him known as ‘a kind of Hitchcock among painters’. Page always used a…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
Baruch Hirson, named after his late grandfather, was born on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician…
BiographyRefiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
Refiloe Phelile Florence Jackie Sedibe (known as Jackie Sedibe) was born at White River in Mpumalanga. Sedibe’s mother was a domestic worker and her father …
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 Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His parents, though poor, were anxious to give him…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to…
BiographyAlexander Leor Fattal
Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts where his younger brother…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
Stephen Dlamini was born in 30 November 1913 in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal). As a factory worker, Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks,…
BiographyDr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper
Sathasivian “Saths” Cooper was born on 11 December 1950 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy…
BiographyBasil Coetzee
Basil Coetzee ( ‘Ou B’ or 'Manenberg' as he was affectionately known) was born in District Six, Cape Town, on 2 February 1944. He grew up in the area, and as a…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
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…
BiographyRebecca Malope
Rebecca Malope was born in 1968 in Lekazi near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. Beyond the fact that she did not progress that far in her education, little is known…
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families forcibly…
BiographyJosephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood,…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
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…
BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo was born on 22 August 1924 in Omangundu near Ondangwa in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. He attended the Ongwediva…
BiographyGisele Wulfsohn
Gisèle Wulfsohn was a freelance photographer specialising in portraiture, education, health and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St Peter's…