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| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0007948 | biography | Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee | 1931-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0008636 | biography | Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley | 1946-2006 | – |
| A-0150596 | article | A Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism | 16 Nov 2020 | – |
| B-0067925 | biography | Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle | 1870-1947 | ✓ |
| B-0009209 | biography | Adriaan Vlok | 1937 | – |
| B-0094630 | biography | Heidi Holland | 1947-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0123540 | biography | Francis Wilson | 1939-2022 | – |
| B-0008285 | biography | Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo | 1879-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008076 | biography | Lawrence Folley | 1928-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0099632 | biography | Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008288 | biography | Mazisi Raymond Kunene | 1930-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0008279 | biography | Antjie Krog | 1952 | – |
| B-0008211 | biography | Peter Jones | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008981 | biography | Anthony Sampson | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0096899 | biography | Vusi Mahlasela | – | – |
| B-0071696 | biography | Joseph Johannes Marks | 1936-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0080306 | biography | Viola Hashe | 1926-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008013 | biography | Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat | 1915-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0008220 | biography | Piet Joubert | 1831-1900 | – |
| B-0007820 | biography | Fikile Charles Bam | 1937-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008646 | biography | James Smith Morland | 1846-1921 | – |
| B-0008489 | biography | Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala | 1962-2013 | – |
| B-0007895 | biography | Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd | 1910-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0009065 | biography | Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh | 1917-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008833 | biography | Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0007963 | biography | Jeremy Patrick Cronin | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0008347 | biography | Louis Luyt | 1932-2013 | ✓ |
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child with is wife,…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley,…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
Including Qondiswa James, Mbali Williams, Mihla Hanise, Anya Isabel, Kas and Hunter Hosted by Didintle Ntsie Filmed 5 September 2020 Broadcasted 6…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle was born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where Sotho…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange…
BiographyHeidi Holland
Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother. When she was three years old, the…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
BiographyLawrence Folley
Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir. Lawrence…
BiographyHelen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘homeland’, now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his father, Mdabuli Albert…
BiographyAntjie Krog
Antjie was born on 23 October 1952 on a farm in the Free State. She completed her BA degree with Afrikaans (cum laude), Philosophy (cum laude) and English at…
BiographyPeter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his…
Vusi Mahlasela
Vusimuzi Sidney Mahlasela ka Zwane was born in Mamelodi in 1965. His grandmother ran a shebeen from behind their home. He grew up listening to people singing…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the…
BiographyViola Hashe
Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon…
BiographyPiet Joubert
Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against the British. He led the…
BiographyFikile Charles Bam
Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the…
BiographyJames Smith Morland
Born Liverpool, England 1846, died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804…
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
Jacob Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer…
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from England…
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh was born in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her…
BiographyBhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…