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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009203 | biography | Benedict Wallet Vilakazi | 1906-1947 | ✓ |
| B-0068152 | biography | Abner S. Mtimkulu | – | – |
| B-0125201 | biography | Sam Tambani | 1953-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0125661 | biography | Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo | 1947-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007886 | biography | Breyten Breytenbach | 1939-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0008498 | biography | Don Mattera | 1935 | – |
| B-0007967 | biography | Herbert Henry Curson | 1892 | – |
| B-0067755 | biography | Leleti Khumalo | 1970 | ✓ |
| B-0009047 | biography | Paul Michael Sibisi | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008933 | biography | Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe | 1937-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008497 | biography | Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0097304 | biography | Villa Baker | 1917-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008084 | biography | Wilhelmina Louisa Freund | 1890-1938 | ✓ |
| B-0068220 | biography | James Madhlope Phillips | 1919-1987 | – |
| B-0008880 | biography | Myron Peter | – | ✓ |
| B-0076960 | biography | Victor M Mgadi | 1982 | ✓ |
| B-0121619 | biography | Pumzile Sokanyile | 2012 | – |
| B-0008889 | biography | Hector Pieterson | 1963-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0075872 | biography | Lesley Hastings Ndlovu | 1961-1976 | – |
| B-0009105 | biography | Harold Strachan | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008264 | biography | Ian David Kitson | 1919-2010 | – |
| B-0093743 | biography | Michael Barry | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0093745 | biography | Paul Konings | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0008371 | biography | Princess Magogo | 1900-1984 | – |
| B-0008210 | biography | John David Rheinallt Jones | 1884-1953 | ✓ |
| B-0066387 | biography | Mads Nørgaard | 1987 | – |
| B-0009106 | biography | Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom | 1893-1958 | – |
| B-0068292 | biography | Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi | 1920-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0067978 | biography | Peter Mokaba | 1959-2002 | – |
| B-0096410 | biography | Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo | 1920-2000 | ✓ |
BiographyBenedict Wallet Vilakazi
Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi was born on 6 January 1906 in Groutville, Natal. Vilakazi was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…
BiographySam Tambani
Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni Jack…
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo…
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His…
BiographyDon Mattera
Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a…
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
Herbert Henry Curson, the eldest son of Henry Charles Curson, was born on 22 September 1892 in Upper Umzimkulu, KwaZulu Natal. His schooling was completed at…
BiographyLeleti Khumalo
Leleti Khumalo was born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township, the North of Durban. Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became a member a youth backyard…
BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
Michael Paul Sibisi was born in Umkhumbane Durban on 23 September 1948. He went to Chersterville Secondary School where he completed Standard 9 in 1965. He…
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
Daniel Sefudi (Dan) Rakgoathe was born on 25 February 1937 in Randfontein, Transvaal. From Standard VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr Maseko, one f the first…
BiographyLeonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso
Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil…
BiographyVilla Baker
Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan, East Rand Transvaal …
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. His father died while he was still young and this had negative socio…
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
Victor M Mgadi
Victor M Mgadi was a political activist with the African National Congress(ANC) during the uprising agaisnt the Apartheid regime. He was also an Umkhonto we…
BiographyPumzile Sokanyile
Pumzile Sokanyile (48) was from Mdumazulu Location, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2001. On 13 August 2012 Mr Sokanyile was…
BiographyHector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima -…
BiographyLesley Hastings Ndlovu
Hastings Ndlovu was a fifteen-year-old boy during the Soweto Uprising in 1976. He is widely believed to be the first boy who was shot dead by police on that…
BiographyHarold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to…
BiographyIan David Kitson
Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization. After serving as a…
BiographyMichael Barry
Michael Barry was born in 1954 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). After receiving his schooling in Port Elizabeth, Barry worked as a…
BiographyPaul Konings
Paul Konings was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen Silomo. In 1926 she married King Mathole…
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
John David Rheinallt Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's…
BiographyMads Nørgaard
Danish documentary photographer and open source software developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyHudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
Ntsanwisi was born on 11 July 1920 at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With only…
BiographyPeter Mokaba
Peter Mokaba was born on 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school education. During the 1976 uprisings, Mokaba became a…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of the…