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| B-0148782 | biography | Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu | 1920-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0150017 | biography | Leigh Davids | 1979-2019 | – |
| B-0007970 | biography | Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo | 1909-1983 | ✓ |
| R-0150730 | archive | Biography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak | 4 Feb 2021 | ✓ |
| B-0123392 | biography | Johannes Henricus Brand | 1823-1888 | ✓ |
| B-0008090 | biography | Ela Gandhi | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008105 | biography | Denis Theodore Goldberg | 1933-2020 | ✓ |
| A-0099600 | article | History of Women in Prisons during Apartheid | 15 Jun 2015 | – |
| B-0123170 | biography | Aubrey Levin | 1938 | – |
| B-0122673 | biography | Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino | 1851-1919 | – |
| B-0007869 | biography | Maggie Bopalamo | 1939 | – |
| B-0008381 | biography | Ismail Mahomed | 1931-2000 | – |
| B-0008215 | biography | Zweledinga Pallo Jordan | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008124 | biography | Paul Grendon | 1954-2019 | – |
| B-0099280 | biography | Mandla Langa | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0097055 | biography | Elza Miles (Botha) | 1938 | – |
| B-0071944 | biography | Abdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood | 1935-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008353 | biography | Moses Mabhida | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008382 | biography | Yunus Ismail Mahomed | 1950-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0121736 | biography | Randolph Hartzenberg | 1948 | – |
| B-0121724 | biography | Jo Ractliffe | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0121549 | biography | Zanele Muholi | 1972 | – |
| B-0094738 | biography | Alan Robert Lipman | 1925-2013 | – |
| B-0008495 | biography | Todd Tozama Matshikiza | 1921-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0009230 | biography | Sue Williamson | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0096731 | biography | Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa | 1921-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0145431 | biography | Benson Tsele | 1932-1968 | – |
| A-0122669 | article | Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna | 23 Jan 2017 | – |
| A-0059647 | article | Poverty and development | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her Standard Six primary…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… change. That same year she led the struggle at Cato Mano r along with Doroth y Nyembe in an attempt to stop …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State, one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape Colony in the Great Trek. He…
BiographyEla Gandhi
Ela Gandhi was born in 1940 in Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal. Indians, Coloured, Whites and Africans lived here in harmony although…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
Denis Theodore Goldberg was born on 11th April 1933 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). His parents, Sam and Annie, had both been born in London,…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
BiographyAubrey Levin
Aubrey Levin was born in Johannesburg on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…
BiographyPaul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
BiographyMandla Langa
Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, or KwaDukuza, a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province. He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up…
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
Elza Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
Abdul Rahman Dawood or 'Apmai' as he was affectionately known was born in India to a family of progressive community activists in October 1935. He was brought…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
Yunus Ismail Mahomed was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up in Jeppe, attending…
BiographyRandolph Hartzenberg
Randolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance. Through his paintings,…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of…
BiographyZanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg. Muholi’s work…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
Alan Robert Lipman was born on 6 June, 1925 in Johannesburg into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II,…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of…
BiographyBenson Tsele
Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
Abstract Lionel Ngakane was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era…
ArticlePoverty and development
One of the most important issues for women in South Africa has always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, black women were forced into the rural…