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| B-0008735 | biography | Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo | 1935-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0007870 | biography | David Wilcox Bopape | 1915-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008215 | biography | Zweledinga Pallo Jordan | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008353 | biography | Moses Mabhida | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008414 | biography | Rocky Malebane-Metsing | 1949-2016 | – |
| B-0008084 | biography | Wilhelmina Louisa Freund | 1890-1938 | ✓ |
| B-0096897 | biography | Stanley Huette Uys | 1922-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0009201 | biography | Andrew Clement Verster | 1937-2020 | – |
| B-0009119 | biography | Oliver Tambo | 1917-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008000 | biography | Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0095274 | biography | Simon Nkabinde | 1937-1999 | – |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0068419 | biography | Dawood Seedat | 1916-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0088574 | biography | Bantu Holomisa | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0093906 | biography | Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube | 1873-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007785 | biography | Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander | 1955-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0007779 | biography | Paul Alberts | 1946-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0007767 | biography | Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams | 1903-1973 | – |
| B-0008744 | biography | Nesta Mathom Nala | 1940-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0096669 | biography | Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0008439 | biography | Thomas Mtobi Mapikela | 1869-1945 | ✓ |
| B-0068521 | biography | Isaac Bangani Tabata | 1909 | ✓ |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0008358 | biography | Samora Machel | 1933-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0007948 | biography | Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee | 1931-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0008704 | biography | Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0008679 | biography | King Mpande kaSenzangakhona | 1798-1872 | – |
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in Pretoria , … Shanthie was involved in organising school…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near … (now Polokwane). He grew up shepherding…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he was sent to live with his grandmother at Effingham, … When he was two, his father's business…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… Campbell Jordan, was an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr Priscilla Phyllis Jordan (born, Ntantala), was a teacher, researcher and…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… family. His formal education was perpetually interrupted and ended when he finished the ninth grade in 1942. After leaving school, he worked as a waiter and…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
… in Tlhabane. Frustrated by the racial hierarchy, he left and from 1972 spent most of the next decade working at … Malebane-Metsing was a clerk in the finance…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
… Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German immigrants who met in Philippolis and married and settled there in the late…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young and Uys was raised by…
BiographyAndrew Clement Verster
… Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London, and an Art Teacher’s Diploma (1960) from Reading University. … a full-time artist. He participated…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… was the third wife of Mzimeni Tambo, son of a farmer and an assistant salesperson at a local trading store. His father had four wives and ten children and,…
BiographyBongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa
… Dhlomo was born on 25 June 1956 in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, and grew up in nearby Bergville. Dhlomo matriculated in 1974 from St Chad's School in Ladysmith,…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
… in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was forced to leave school because he could not … He was the well-known musician of…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… more than thirty short stories, two verse plays and a fair number of poems. “Add to these, two anthologies … collections, innumerable single essays,…
BiographyDawood Seedat
… to Durban to educate his sons Dawood, Hoosen, Mohammed, and Moosa. After qualifying as a bookkeeper, Seedat entered … among them Johannes Nkosi . Years later…
BiographyBantu Holomisa
… Assembly. He attended primary school at Mqanduli and junior and senior secondary school at Jongilizwe College, Tsolo, a school for the sons of chiefs and…
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… funds in the United States of America (USA) between 1896 and 1899 to build the Ohlange Institute (1900), the newspaper Ilanga Lase Natal (1903) and many…
BiographyVesta Smith
… She became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and worked closely with Albertina and Walter Sisulu . As an ANC volunteer, Smith attended the…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March … where he worked in the youth ministry of a Baptist…
BiographyLeon Levy
… Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania . Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest…
BiographyPaul Alberts
… born in 1946 in Pretoria . He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo Province. He matriculated at Afrikaans Hoër … not complete his studies. In 1965 he…
BiographyChief Rabbi Israel Abrahams
… Lithuania. He was the son of Zecharya Alter Abramowich and Rachel Leah Sherman. As a young boy Abrahams emigrated … to England where he was educated at the…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
… Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, … grandmother). As a single parent, Nesta Nala has…
BiographyThulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
… was born in 1962 in Soweto . Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the University of Swaziland in 1987 and…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful business as a builder and contractor in Bloemfontein.In 1892 he…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
… I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After … in Cape Town in 1931. He became employed…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
… worked as servants. Her mother died when she was aged two and her father, who was a cattle driver, died when she … adolescence. Sara married a Khoikhoi man…
BiographySamora Machel
… Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. Machel…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child with is wife, Josephine, nee van Zyl. He went to the local primary school and…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are now both pensioners. He grew up in Meadowlands (Gauteng) and in Tshisahulu (Venda)…
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
… longest reigning Zulu king. He was a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both preceded him as kings of the Zulu. He … to his contemporaries. Dingane (his…