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| B-0008242 | biography | William Kentridge | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0124013 | biography | Thomas G. Karis | – | – |
| B-0097180 | biography | Keorapetse William Kgositsile | 1938-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0007937 | biography | Janet Mary Cherry | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0073075 | biography | Ben Khoapa | – | – |
| B-0074109 | biography | Eulalie Doreen Stott | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0089634 | biography | Dora Taylor | 1899-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0009221 | biography | Eli Weinberg | 1908-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008887 | biography | Jacob Hendrik Pierneef | 1886-1957 | – |
| B-0008622 | biography | Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0068492 | biography | King Sobhuza I | 1795-1836 | – |
| B-0074845 | biography | Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0125633 | biography | Pitso John Mosimane | 1964 | ✓ |
| B-0093741 | biography | Jimi Matthews | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0098483 | biography | Richard Feetham | 1874-1965 | – |
| B-0081677 | biography | Motsoko Pheko | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0096411 | biography | Zuleika Sarojini Christopher | 1924-1992 | – |
| B-0008216 | biography | Archibald Campbell Jordan | 1906-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008800 | biography | William Frederick Nkomo | 1915-1972 | – |
| B-0008028 | biography | Sheena Duncan | 1932-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0094345 | biography | Eric Mtshali | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008315 | biography | T. J. Lemon | – | – |
| B-0095443 | biography | Jonas Mosa Gwangwa | 1941 | – |
| B-0008846 | biography | Albert Nzula | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0079921 | biography | Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia | 1915 | – |
| B-0074549 | biography | Tiyani Lybon Mabasa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0096010 | biography | Schalk Burger | 1852-1918 | ✓ |
| B-0008238 | biography | Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng | 1919-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0007838 | biography | Peter Becker | 1921-1984 | – |
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High School. Influenced…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
Janet Mary Cherry was born in 1961 in Cape Town, where she was raised. Janet comes from a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of…
BiographyBen Khoapa
Ben Khoapa first became interested in politics while a student at a boarding school in Lesotho. This continued when he later went to study at Adams College…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyEli Weinberg
Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef was born on 13 August 1886 in Pretoria from Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in…
BiographyGeraldine Fraser-Moleketi
Geraldine Fraser was born in 1960 in Lansdowne, Cape Town. She received her primary education in Wynberg and matriculated at Livingstone High School in…
BiographyKing Sobhuza I
Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…
BiographyPitso John Mosimane
Pitso John Mosimane was born on 26 July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg. He is a former South African football player and…
BiographyJimi Matthews
Jimi Matthews was born in 1955 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. After school he enrolled at a university that was…
BiographyRichard Feetham
Richard Feetham was born on 22 November 1874, Penrhos Monmouthshire, England. His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood Park, Durban, where…
BiographyArchibald Campbell Jordan
Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
Frederick Nkomo was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng…
BiographySheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the Roedean School…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
BiographyT. J. Lemon
T. J. completed his "A" levels in 1977 at Mount Pleasant High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
Jonas Mosa Gwangwa was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…
BiographyAlbert Nzula
Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in Herschel and at Lovedale, where he…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…
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…
BiographySchalk Burger
General Schalk Willem Burger was born on the 6 September 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
Ntwaesele "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a…
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…