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| B-0098483 | biography | Richard Feetham | 1874-1965 | – |
| B-0008935 | biography | Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi | 1955 | – |
| B-0095354 | biography | Feziwe Bookholane | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0070373 | biography | Josiah Khiphusizi Jele | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0064853 | biography | Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi | 1928-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0120811 | biography | Devikarani Priscilla Jana | 1943-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0065024 | biography | Arthur Goldreich | 1929-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0074116 | biography | Jean Clarice Middleton | 1928-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0096411 | biography | Zuleika Sarojini Christopher | 1924-1992 | – |
| B-0096867 | biography | Lawrence Schlemmer | 1936-2011 | – |
| B-0007901 | biography | Sidney Percival Bunting | 1873-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008304 | biography | Potlako Leballo | – | – |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0080342 | biography | Rica Hodgson | 1920-2018 | – |
| B-0093704 | biography | David Hartman | 1961 | – |
| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0068430 | biography | King Sekhukhune | 1814-1882 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0067724 | biography | Benjamin Magson Kies | 1917-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0123949 | biography | Mokgadi Caster Semenya | 1991 | ✓ |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0097304 | biography | Villa Baker | 1917-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008178 | biography | Hassan Howa | 1922-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0086256 | biography | Sir Sydney Kentridge | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0068391 | biography | Cassim Saloojee | 1935-2009 | – |
| B-0064874 | biography | Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota | 1928-2009 | – |
| B-0089634 | biography | Dora Taylor | 1899-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008948 | biography | Robert M. Resha | 1920-1973 | ✓ |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
BiographyRichard Feetham
Richard Feetham was born on 22 November 1874, Penrhos Monmouthshire, England. His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England…
BiographyNgoako Abel Ramatlhodi
Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi was born on 21 August 1955 at Tauyatswala small village near Polokwane, in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Ramatlhodi's…
BiographyFeziwe Bookholane
Feziwe Bookholane was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a…
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many black South Africans…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), to a middle class Indian family.[i] From an early age Jana…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood Park, Durban, where…
BiographyLawrence Schlemmer
Eminent sociologist and political analyst Professor Lawrence Schlemmer was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 11 September 1936. After matriculating…
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…
Potlako Leballo
He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
BiographyRica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
BiographyDavid Hartman
Dave Hartman was born in 1961 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. His mother was born…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
Introduction Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child,…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
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 …
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
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,…
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…
BiographyCassim Saloojee
Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was married, Saloojee’s father…
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
Robert M. Resha was born in Bolotwe,Queenstown, Eastern Province [Now Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal school and in his late…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…