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| B-0007913 | biography | Yusuf Cachalia | 1915-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0008411 | biography | Daniel Francois Malan | 1874-1959 | ✓ |
| B-0009073 | biography | Nana Sita | 1898-1969 | – |
| B-0084331 | biography | Michael Guthrie Scott | 1907-1983 | – |
| B-0084446 | biography | Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo | 1903-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008079 | biography | Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie | 1878-1914 | – |
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0007765 | biography | Dr Abdullah Abdurahman | 1872-1940 | ✓ |
| B-0007768 | biography | Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams | 1925-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007779 | biography | Paul Alberts | 1946-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007787 | biography | Joseph Alfers | 1949 | – |
| B-0007788 | biography | Phyllis Altman | 1919-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0007792 | biography | James Edward April | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0007793 | biography | Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein | 1921 | ✓ |
| B-0007794 | biography | Rowley Israel Arenstein | 1918-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0007802 | biography | Frances Baard | 1909-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0007806 | biography | Omar Badsha | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0007807 | biography | Jim Bailey | 1919-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0007825 | biography | Steve Hilton-Barber | 1962-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0007828 | biography | Yetta Barenblatt | 1913-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0007831 | biography | Hymie Barsel | 1920 | – |
| B-0007832 | biography | Esther Barsel | 1924-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0007843 | biography | Lionel Rusty Bernstein | 1920-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0007899 | biography | Brian Percy Bunting | 1920-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0007901 | biography | Sidney Percival Bunting | 1873-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0007905 | biography | Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi | 1928-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0007909 | biography | Amina Cachalia | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007912 | biography | Ismail Ahmed Cachalia | 1908-2003 | ✓ |
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was…
BiographyDaniel Francois Malan
D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a…
BiographyNana Sita
Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…
BiographyJopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
Jopie Fourie was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout and dispatch rider during the South African War, and was wounded and captured in an…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He…
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…
BiographyPaul Alberts
Paul Alb erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria. He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
Joseph Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg,…
Phyllis Altman
Phyllis Altman was born on 25 September 1919. She went to Jeppe High School for Girls. As her mother could not afford university fees she accepted a loan from…
BiographyJames Edward April
James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven children…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
BiographyFrances Baard
Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape. She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…
BiographyOmar Badsha
Omar Badsha was born in Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal) in June 1945. He grew up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the…
BiographyJim Bailey
James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country…
BiographySteve Hilton-Barber
Steve Hilton-Barber was born in Tzaneen, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province) in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of Journalism and…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…
BiographyHymie Barsel
Born in 1920 Barsel worked as a clerk. During the 30s he was assaulted when taking part in demonstrations against the Blackshirt Movement. He was secretary of…
BiographyEsther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…
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…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review. His…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
Amina Cachalia (née Asvat) was born on 28 June 1930, Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was…