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| B-0008250 | biography | President Seretse Khama | 1921-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0066278 | biography | Alex Hepple | 1904-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0068553 | biography | James M. Thaele | 1888-1948 | – |
| B-0095931 | biography | Chris McGregor | 1936-1990 | – |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0009068 | biography | Penny Siopis | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0009188 | biography | Jan van Eck | 1943-2009 | – |
| B-0008006 | biography | King Dingane ka Senzangakhona | 1795-1840 | – |
| B-0099280 | biography | Mandla Langa | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0071944 | biography | Abdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood | 1935-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008166 | biography | Percy John "Jack" Hodgson | 1910-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008618 | biography | Dinah Molefe | 1927 | – |
| B-0008262 | biography | Fiona Kirkwood | 1949 | – |
| B-0121281 | biography | Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0007917 | biography | Margaret Roach Killie Campbell | 1881-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0064873 | biography | Freda Levson | 1911-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0123687 | biography | Mattheus Uys Krige | 1910-1987 | – |
| B-0008808 | biography | Lewis Nkosi | 1936-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0122637 | biography | Abdullah Ibrahim | 1934 | – |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0068655 | biography | Frederik van Zyl Slabbert | 1940-2010 | – |
| B-0008242 | biography | William Kentridge | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008386 | biography | Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels | 1905-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0068487 | biography | General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008089 | biography | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1869-1948 | ✓ |
| B-0007986 | biography | Johannes (Jan) de Klerk | 1903-1979 | – |
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
… the Good, the ruler of the Bangwato people. Under his rule and with his approval, Bechuanaland had been put under … 19th century. Seretse’s name means ‘the…
BiographyAlex Hepple
… was a shop steward of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and was blacklisted for his part in the 1913 strike. Thomas and his wife, Agnes (nee Borland) were…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
… James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied …
BiographyChris McGregor
… white people around, he became exposed to Xhosa culture and music. During World War II, his father joined the Navy and Chris moved to stay with his mother in…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
… of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started Vlakplaas, a farm 20km west of … Government in…
BiographyPenny Siopis
… a painter, although she frequently works with video and installations. Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, … found objects (including video footage),…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally … who lived in Black spots were told to leave their places and later removed…
BiographyHelene Marie Passtoors
… than her own for the cause of peace, freedom equality and justice. At the time of her involvement in the South … liberation struggle, she held dual…
BiographyJan van Eck
… to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and father, a classical piano teacher. He matriculated at … Stellenbosch, obtaining a BA degree…
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela Ngobese who was Senzangakhona's sixth and ‘great wife'. [i] Chief Senzangakhona…
BiographyMandla Langa
… as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up in the KwaMashu township outside Durban . He … young brother who was South Africa’s…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
… School where he did his education, but later left school and started working. He became active in a number of … community organisations including religious,…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John Hodgson. An immigrant from Yorkshire, Jack’s … father died in a mine accident. Having…
BiographyDinah Molefe
… Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went to the ELC Art and Craft…
BiographyFiona Kirkwood
… obtained a BA(FA) (1971) from the Glasgow School of Art and a MA(FA) from UN. She has lectured in 3D Design, Fashion, Fibre Art and Weaving, Drawing and…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… where she attained her Senior Certificate in 1941 and then went to the University of Cape Town from 1942 to … with a BA degree with her main subjects being…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
… 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall Campbell. She was educated at St. Anne's Diocesan College in Natal and…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
… Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape … she accompanied her father on diplomatic trips in…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… Sisulu was one of five children born to Bonilizwe and Monikazi Thethiwe in the Tsomo district in the Transkei … on 21 October 1918. She was a nurse, a…
BiographyFreda Levson
… . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. She … spent her holidays in Scotland throughout her…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys … as an author, poet, playwright, translator, broadcaster and lecturer. He also…
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… Nkosi was born in Chesterville, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at local schools before enrolling at M. L. … magazine , which was founded in 1951. In…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
… to Islam in 1968 during his pursuit for a more peaceful and fulfilling spiritual life. Ibrahim is known for his influence in jazz music as a pianist and…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
… father, Todd, was a renowned jazz pianist, composer and journalist who shot to fame in 1958 with his musical King … Kong helped launch the careers of singer,…
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
… Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and his twin sister were born on 2 March 1940 in Pretoria to Barbara Zacharia Hagen and Petrus Johannes Slabbert. Slabbert…
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
… an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s from Pokroy, a small village in Lithuania and his mother, Andzia Maisels,…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in English, and he only entered school at the age of 12, when his elder … an affinity…
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 Hindu ……
BiographyJohannes (Jan) de Klerk
… He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De Klerk went to school at Potchefstroom and from 1923 to 1926 studied at the…