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| B-0068120 | biography | Oscar Mpetha | 1909-1994 | – |
| B-0098414 | biography | Chris van Wyk | 1957-2014 | ✓ |
| A-0153666 | article | Brenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation | 23 Sep 2026 | ✓ |
| B-0096462 | biography | Elsie Nair | 1927-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007899 | biography | Brian Percy Bunting | 1920-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0009229 | biography | Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0121732 | biography | Emile Maurice | 1955-2016 | – |
| B-0008118 | biography | Frances Herman Gow | 1887-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008779 | biography | Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana | 1922 | – |
| B-0008979 | biography | Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe | 1886-1964 | – |
| B-0121639 | biography | Nkosiyabo Xalabile | 2012 | – |
| B-0008627 | biography | Ernest Sedumedi Moloto | 1916-1984 | – |
| B-0008221 | biography | Elsa Joubert | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0008169 | biography | Barbara Anne Hogan | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0093814 | biography | Aaron Mosibudi Mangena | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0007896 | biography | Zola Budd | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008465 | biography | Mizream Maseko | 1927-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0008235 | biography | Dorothy Moss Kay | 1886-1964 | – |
| B-0008744 | biography | Nesta Mathom Nala | 1940-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008732 | biography | Jayaseelen Naidoo | 1954 | – |
| B-0068701 | biography | Nkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0068439 | biography | Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0074817 | biography | Jacob Zungwane Mashabane | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0009027 | biography | Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala | 1941-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0080013 | biography | Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0068083 | biography | Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg | 1938-2011 | – |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0093701 | biography | Ben Mclennan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0083820 | biography | Justice Zac Yacoob | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008740 | biography | Billy Nair | 1929-2008 | ✓ |
BiographyOscar Mpetha
Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, where he was employed as a dock worker, waiter, hospital…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
In 1997, South Africa’s most famous music star had a huge hit. Brenda Fassie’s Vulindlela became a national pop anthem, played especially at weddings and…
BiographyElsie Nair
Elsie Nair (nee Goldstone) was born in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1927. After completing her primary school education, she joined her mother who…
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of Sidney Percival Bunting and Rebecca…
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn was born in 1938, in Villageboard, a mixed area that had different nationalities living side by side. She was raised in the…
BiographyEmile Maurice
Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, curator, author educator and Nation builder. He received an Advanced Diploma…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop of…
BiographyGreenwood Dumisa Ngotyana
African National Congress organiser in the Western Cape. Ngotyana was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came to…
BiographyCharles Kwelemthini Sakwe
Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the court…
BiographyNkosiyabo Xalabile
Nkosiyabo Xalabile (30) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2004. On 16 August 2012 Nkosiyabo was killed at scene 2…
BiographyErnest Sedumedi Moloto
Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in the Rustenburg district. In 1931…
BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and completed her matric at St…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The…
BiographyZola Budd
Zola Budd was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 she gained international…
BiographyMizream Maseko
Mizream Maseko (also documented as Mizraim, Mizriam, Mizram) was born on 10 June 1927. Maseko began his career as a house painter after completing his studies…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve,…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
Jayaseelen “Jay” Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo…
BiographyNkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
Nkosinathi Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni…
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 after…
BiographyJoseph 'Headman' Shabalala
Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyJannie “Jan Bek” Momberg
Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. He later studied at Stellenbosch University…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
BiographyBen Mclennan
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 received his early…
BiographyJustice Zac Yacoob
Justice Zakeria “Zac” Mohammed Yacoob was born on 3 March 1948. He became blind at 16 months because of meningitis. Yacoob attended Durban's Arthur Blaxall…
BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…