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| B-0144661 | biography | Raymond Arthur Dart | 1893-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0141690 | biography | John Beaver "J.B" Marks | 1903-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0148743 | biography | Graeme Craig Smith | 1981 | ✓ |
| B-0148826 | biography | Mahomed Dawood Barmania | – | ✓ |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008579 | biography | Andrew Mokete Mlangeni | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0007812 | biography | August Aime Balkema | 1906-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0095263 | biography | John Collins | 1905-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008069 | biography | Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer | 1908-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0080574 | biography | Thoko Phillip Mamogobo | – | – |
| B-0122852 | biography | Robert Gabriel Mugabe | 1924-2019 | ✓ |
| A-0059191 | article | Port Elizabeth the Segregated city | 30 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0097304 | biography | Villa Baker | 1917-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0086256 | biography | Sir Sydney Kentridge | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0100307 | biography | Margaret Mary Smith | 1916-1987 | ✓ |
| A-0064823 | article | List of people banned under Apartheid | 8 Apr 2011 | – |
| B-0121280 | biography | Wilfrid Edward Cooper | 1926-2004 | – |
| B-0008894 | biography | Vella Pillay | – | – |
| B-0008394 | biography | Miriam Makeba | 1932-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0074125 | biography | Joseph Masobila Mdluli | 1925-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008887 | biography | Jacob Hendrik Pierneef | 1886-1957 | – |
| B-0094958 | biography | Jonathan Clegg | 1953-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007768 | biography | Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams | 1925-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008106 | biography | David Goldblatt | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| A-0068667 | article | The Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973 | 17 Oct 2011 | – |
| A-0016709 | article | Fatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010 | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0099944 | archive | Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About | 3 Nov 2015 | – |
| A-0122625 | article | Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck | 12 Jan 2017 | – |
| B-0122636 | biography | Adam Glasser | 1955 | – |
BiographyRaymond Arthur Dart
Raymond Dart was born on 4 February 1893 in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. He attended university in Queensland and Sydney. In 1920, Dart pursued further study…
BiographyJohn Beaver "J.B" Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway worker and his mother, a…
BiographyGraeme Craig Smith
Graeme Craig Smith was born to Graeme and Janet Smith on 1 February 1981. Graeme attended King Edward the VII School in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). …
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
Mahomed Dawood Barmania was the son of Dawood Barmania, owner of commercial and farming properties in both Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Surat in the West…
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…
BiographyAndrew Mokete Mlangeni
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of a twin (he has a…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…
BiographyJohn Collins
John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
Thoko Phillip Mamagobo, popularly known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
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 …
BiographySir Sydney Kentridge
Sydney Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1922. He matriculated in 1938 at the King Edward VII High School. In 1941, he obtained a BA degree at the…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
Margaret Smith was born Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei. [i] Her father, Chisholm MacDonald,…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
People banned under ApartheidNameAct/Section/Issued up to: (delivery date)Date on which notice expires:Other: (address, occupation etc.)Aba, LickardAct No. 44…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in Mowbray until he…
Vella Pillay
This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his 80th birthday party held on 18th October 2003 at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London. Vella…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months…
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
Joseph Mdluli was born in 1925 in lngwavuma, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), the only son in the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and…
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…
BiographyJonathan Clegg
Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but his mother was from Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs'kia [Ezekiel]…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were shocked, and they responded mainly by giving in…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's garage She spent…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Themes to Think About This Feature has shown how working…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
Abstract: This paper focuses on the life on Lefifi Tladi. Tladi is an artist, poet, and jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid…
BiographyAdam Glasser
Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his…