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| B-0149350 | biography | Abraham Mogale | – | ✓ |
| B-0149719 | biography | Coline Williams | 1967-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0149443 | biography | Josiah Thugwane | 1971 | – |
| A-0094753 | article | The African Students Association (ASA) | 1 Feb 2013 | – |
| B-0008543 | biography | Gideon Mendel | 1959 | ✓ |
| A-0122699 | article | King Kong the Musical 1959 -1961 | 26 Jan 2017 | – |
| B-0144781 | biography | Nathaniel James Merriman | 1809-1882 | ✓ |
| B-0148477 | biography | Martin Nambala Wilpard | – | ✓ |
| B-0149450 | biography | S .G. Sekano Ntoane | 1904-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008133 | biography | Sipho Gumede | 1952-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008000 | biography | Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0068655 | biography | Frederik van Zyl Slabbert | 1940-2010 | – |
| B-0009137 | biography | Richard Victor Selope Thema | 1886-1955 | ✓ |
| B-0009262 | biography | Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu | 1905-1988 | – |
| B-0009218 | biography | David Joseph Webster | 1944-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0095274 | biography | Simon Nkabinde | 1937-1999 | – |
| B-0067967 | biography | Johannes (Joe) Modise | 1929-2001 | – |
| B-0008142 | biography | Michael Alan Harmel | 1915-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0068113 | biography | Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe | 1949 | ✓ |
| A-0069444 | article | The French Revolution | 11 Nov 2011 | – |
| B-0008178 | biography | Hassan Howa | 1922-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0008137 | biography | Alcott Skei Gwentshe | 1920-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0085550 | biography | Thabo Marcus Motaung | 1955-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0009120 | biography | Adelaide Frances Tambo | 1929-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0068143 | biography | Saul Msane | 1856-1919 | – |
| B-0068453 | biography | David Sibeko | 1938-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0144737 | biography | Julius Louis Saks | 1899-1975 | – |
| B-0148002 | biography | Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
BiographyAbraham Mogale
On 27 February 1958, banishment orders were made out for three key Bahurutshe figures - Abraham Mogale, Kenneth Mosenyi and David Moiloa. Abraham Mogale was…
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
BiographyJosiah Thugwane
Josiah Thugwane was the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He was born on 22 April 1971 in the small town Bethal, eastern…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
The African Students Association (ASA) was established on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the…
BiographyGideon Mendel
Gideon Mendel was born on 31st August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
King Kong: An African Jazz, was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical chronicles the rise and fall of…
BiographyNathaniel James Merriman
Born in Marlborough, England, on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…
BiographyMartin Nambala Wilpard
Martin Nambala Wilpard was acknowledged as the Chief of the Ondonga community in Ovamboland, South West Africa [now Namibia]. It was claimed that he was…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
S.G. Sekano Ntoane was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria. He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran…
BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape, however, there are other…
BiographySipho Gumede
Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was…
BiographyBongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa
Bongiwe Dhlomo was born on 25 June 1956 in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, and grew up in nearby Bergville. Dhlomo matriculated in 1974 from St Chad's School in…
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and his twin sister were born on 2 March 1940 in Pretoria to Barbara Zacharia Hagen and Petrus Johannes Slabbert. Slabbert attended…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
Richard Victor Selope Thema was born in Ga-Mamabolo, Pietersburg district, in 1886. Both his parents were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the…
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was a…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde was born on 30 November 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
The French Revolution
On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution, which would last…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in…
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families forcibly…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising…
BiographySaul Msane
Msane was born in Natal, but very little is known about his early life. He was educated at the Edendale Mission in Pietermaritzburg, and at the Healdtown…
BiographyDavid Sibeko
David Maphgumzana Sibeko was born on 26 August 1938 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He received his schooling at the St Cyprian's Anglican School in Sophiatown,…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
Optometrist Julius Louis Saks was the first son of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South Africa from England in 1905. Sidney Saks became a…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…