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| B-0084124 | biography | Kasturba Gandhi | 1869-1944 | ✓ |
| B-0008076 | biography | Lawrence Folley | 1928-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0008057 | biography | Alexander Leor Fattal | 1979 | – |
| B-0080342 | biography | Rica Hodgson | 1920-2018 | – |
| B-0008603 | biography | John Koenakeefe Mohl | 1903-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008568 | biography | Justice Sfiso Mkame | 1963 | – |
| B-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0007994 | biography | Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008191 | biography | Noni Jabavu | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0009065 | biography | Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh | 1917-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0007841 | biography | Mary Dorothy Benson | 1919-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0122581 | biography | Nokukhanya Luthuli | 1904-1996 | – |
| B-0009211 | biography | B J Vorster [John Vorster] | 1915-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0008456 | biography | Helen Elizabeth Martins | 1897-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0068743 | biography | Curtis Nkondo | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0064907 | biography | Marlene van Niekerk | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0093139 | biography | Jennifer Schreiner | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008533 | biography | Zanemvula Kizito Mda | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0009073 | biography | Nana Sita | 1898-1969 | – |
| B-0007881 | biography | Jan Bouws | 1902-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0007836 | biography | Walter Battiss | 1906-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0125558 | biography | Gerald Patrick Kearney | 1942-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0009103 | biography | Hendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn | 1886-1963 | – |
| B-0066332 | biography | Bob Hepple | 1934-2015 | – |
| B-0008499 | biography | Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews | 1929-2010 | – |
| B-0008280 | biography | Krotoa (Eva) | 1643-1674 | ✓ |
| B-0093724 | biography | David Stuurman | 1773-1830 | ✓ |
| B-0093854 | biography | Roger Meintjes | 1963 | – |
| B-0008335 | biography | Louis Washkansky | 1913-1967 | – |
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… a wealthy merchant. Kasturba had two brothers, one younger and one older than her. Her father was a friend of Karamchand … Karamchand Gandhi’s father. In…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni … in England. She was able to broaden…
BiographyAlexander Leor Fattal
… in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts where … Comparative Area Studies, focusing on…
BiographyRica Hodgson
… in South Africa. She joined the Communist Party in 1946 and in 1953 she was a founding member of the Congress of … of 156 leaders of the struggle, she became…
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
… father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as chairs and mealie stampers. During his youth, Mohl drew with 'pepa' on rocks and made clay objects. He…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
… Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at school although there was no art teacher. He left Mtwalume High School in 1979 and…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
… at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had relocated in 1900 from Russia … she worked in advertising agencies,…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
… 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser for the National Party (NP…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
… From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female…
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
… on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their … to the University of Edinburgh where she…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… education. Born into the privileged world of servants and country clubs, Benson’s early ambitions were a far cry … General Hospital (now the Steve Biko…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her community and South Africa’s liberation struggle as a…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… president FW de Klerk , ‘a thick-set man with heavy jowls and intense blue eyes who was renowned for his deadpan sense of humour and his quick wit’. He was a…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
… province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following traditions passed down from her mother and grandmother, she learned…
BiographyHelen Elizabeth Martins
… in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent her childhood growing up in Nieu Bethesda. She went … on to obtain a teacher's diploma in…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Mozambique, then under Portuguese rule, to escape poverty and came to South Africa with her sons. She settled near Pretoria where she worked as a domestic…
BiographyMarlene van Niekerk
… near Caledon. An outstanding intellectual, philosopher and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof and proceeded to study…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were active members of the Liberal Party of South … of the Liberal…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda , a school teacher, who later became a lawyer. His father was a…
BiographyNana Sita
… Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 and lived for some time with J.P. Vyas in Pretoria, to study … went to Pretoria for negotiations…
BiographyJan Bouws
… Jan Bouws, accomplished musician, composer, lecturer and author, was born in the Netherlands in Purmerend on 28 … He trained in Musicology at the University…
BiographyWalter Battiss
… in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first became…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
… on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he…
BiographyHendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn
… Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan Daniel and…
BiographyBob Hepple
… Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple , was a trade unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and…
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
… 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and anthropologist at the University College of Fort…
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry…
BiographyDavid Stuurman
… the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi and San people were systematically dispossessed of their … was tied to a wagon wheel, whipped with…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
… Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand enlarger advertised in the under-R20 … for circulating work, developing…
BiographyLouis Washkansky
… extraction, Louis Washkansky came to South Africa aged 9, and became a grocer in Cape Town’s Greenpoint area. Washkansky saw active service in WW2 in East…