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| B-0007988 | biography | Patricia De Lille | 1951 | ✓ |
| B-0007991 | biography | Amina Desai | 1920-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007992 | biography | Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0007997 | biography | Gille De Vlieg | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008011 | biography | Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0008013 | biography | Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat | 1915-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0008027 | biography | Patrick Baker Duncan | 1918-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008047 | biography | Virginia Engel | 1950-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008061 | biography | Walter Sidney Felgate | 1930-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008069 | biography | Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer | 1908-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0008070 | biography | Molly Fischer | 1908-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0008078 | biography | Lionel Forman | 1926-1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008089 | biography | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1869-1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008090 | biography | Ela Gandhi | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008091 | biography | Manilal Gandhi | 1892-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008102 | biography | Graham Goddard | 1956 | – |
| B-0008105 | biography | Denis Theodore Goldberg | 1933-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008106 | biography | David Goldblatt | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008113 | biography | Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool | 1897-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008116 | biography | Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) | 1906-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008130 | biography | Archibald Jacob Gumede | 1914-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008136 | biography | Harry Themba Gwala | 1920-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0008156 | biography | James Barry Munnik Hertzog | 1866-1942 | – |
| B-0008159 | biography | Baruch Hirson | 1921-1999 | – |
| B-0008166 | biography | Percy John "Jack" Hodgson | 1910-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008174 | biography | Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk | 1911-1990 | – |
| B-0008180 | biography | Father Trevor Huddleston | 1913-1998 | ✓ |
BiographyPatricia De Lille
Patricia de Lille, a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children…
BiographyAmina Desai
When her husband, Suliman Mohammed Desai, a Transvaal Indian Congress activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business.Political…
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai was born on 10 April 1932 in Durban. He grew up as an Indian but was "reclassified" Coloured in 1957. His father was an…
BiographyGille De Vlieg
Gille de Vlieg was born Gillian Ruth Hemson in Plymouth, England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in a later bombing…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was born on 27 January 1949. She received her secondary education at Amanzimtoti Training College until 1967 and began her tertiary…
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role in opposition politics for over a decade, attracting notice from the…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyVirginia Engel
Virginia Engel was born on 27 April 1950 in Cape Town. She married Desmond Engel and they have three daughters, Tania, Kim and Liza. Her exposure to apartheid…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
Walter Sidney Felgate was born on 19 November 1930 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Felgate graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in 1949. He studied…
BiographyRuth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…
BiographyMolly Fischer
Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton, near Pretoria. Her father, P.S. ‘Tottie’…
BiographyLionel Forman
Born in 1926 in Rosettenville Forman was a barrister and a journalist. He was author of the first book on the trial, 'You Can Hang For Treason'. Forman headed…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
*Note: The focus of this biography is on Gandhi's life and times in South Africa. Early life and education Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born to a…
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…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with whom he first came to…
BiographyGraham Goddard
Graham Goddard was born in 1956 in Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on…
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,…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
BiographyZainunnisa “Cissie” Gool
Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political leaders, her father was the prominent…
BiographyDr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)
Dr Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) was born in 1906 in Durban. She grew up in Grey Street, with three brothers and three sisters. Along with her…
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…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
Archibald Jacob Gumede was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana Gumede a former ANC…
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
James Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog,…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
Baruch Hirson, named after his late grandfather, was born on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
Percy John ‘Jack’ Hodgson born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John Hodgson. An…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
Father Trevor Huddleston was born on 15 June 1913 in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England to Ernest Huddleston and his wife. Soon after, the family moved to Golders…