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| B-0096410 | biography | Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo | 1920-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0144692 | biography | Aaron Mahlangu | 1914 | – |
| B-0148532 | biography | Paula Ensor | – | ✓ |
| B-0149342 | biography | Kisten Moonsamy | – | ✓ |
| B-0008164 | biography | Emily Hobhouse | 1860-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0008195 | biography | Dr. Leander Starr Jameson | 1853-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008753 | biography | Sister Bernard Ncube | 1932-2012 | – |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0008886 | biography | Francois Pienaar | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008814 | biography | Nongqawuse | 1841-1898 | ✓ |
| B-0008233 | biography | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0007885 | biography | Sydney Brenner | 1927 | – |
| B-0009157 | biography | Dimitri Tsafendas | 14 January1918-1999 | – |
| B-0072386 | biography | Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba | 1971 | ✓ |
| B-0008636 | biography | Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley | 1946-2006 | – |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
| B-0149592 | biography | Chris Qwazi | – | ✓ |
| B-0149599 | biography | Deseni Soobben | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0149874 | biography | John Liebenberg | 1958-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0149875 | biography | Zubeida Vallie | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0149876 | biography | Sandi Smit | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0149879 | biography | Brett Eloff | – | ✓ |
| B-0149881 | biography | Lloyd Spencer | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0149882 | biography | Mike Hutchings | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0149883 | biography | Rodger Bosch | – | ✓ |
| B-0149884 | biography | Jabulani Sikhakhane | – | – |
| B-0008495 | biography | Todd Tozama Matshikiza | 1921-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008071 | biography | Mark Fish | 1974 | ✓ |
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…
BiographyAaron Mahlangu
Born in 1914 Mahlangu was a trade unionist. As a domestic worker, Mahlangu took part in the 1942 anti-pass campaign and was sacked. Later he was again…
BiographyPaula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…
BiographyKisten Moonsamy
Kisten “Zed” Moonsamy was part of a remarkable generation of working class activists who grew from the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) to become a formidable force…
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
BiographyDr. Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his parents moved to London, he went to school at Goldolphin in…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as…
BiographyNongqawuse
History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
BiographySydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, close to Johannesburg, to Jewish parents on 13 January 1927. His father was a shoe repairman who had moved to South…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with a…
BiographyMalusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal. Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo Gigaba. He…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley,…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
BiographyChris Qwazi
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the…
BiographyDeseni Soobben
Deseni Soobben was 10 when her grandfather, a businessman returned from a trip to Japan and gave her a Kodak lnstamatic camera. Soobben matriculated from…
BiographyJohn Liebenberg
John Liebenberg was born in 1958, in Johannesburg where he also currently works and lives. He was introduced to Namibia in 1976 when together with his…
Zubeida Vallie
Zubeida Vallie was born in 1963 in Newlands, Cape Town from which she and her family were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act. She is a graduate of…
Sandi Smit
Born in 1962, Sandy Smit was an ECC Media Committee member, Jodac member and Afrapix photographer. On the 15th of June, under the emergency regulations, Smit…
Brett Eloff
Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa. He began his career in…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…
BiographyMike Hutchings
Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in South Africa in 1980. His earliest…
BiographyRodger Bosch
Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural events. Over the years, he has…
BiographyJabulani Sikhakhane
Mr Jabulani Sikhakhane has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on financial and political reporting. He has…
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…
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]…
BiographyMark Fish
Mark Fish, or “Feeeeeesh!” as we know him, was born in Cape Town on 14 March 1974. He started his soccer career in South Africa, but has departed our shores to…