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| B-0008047 | biography | Virginia Engel | 1950-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008109 | biography | Richard Goldstone | – | – |
| B-0007793 | biography | Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein | 1921 | ✓ |
| B-0008773 | biography | Sandile Ngcobo | 1953 | – |
| B-0007834 | biography | Cassim Mohammed Bassa | 1925-1983 | – |
| B-0095598 | biography | John Taolo Gaetsewe | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0009230 | biography | Sue Williamson | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0008610 | biography | Yvonne Mokgoro | 1950 | – |
| B-0008357 | biography | Graça Simbine Machel | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0068699 | biography | Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo | 1955-1991 | – |
| B-0068942 | biography | Ahmed Timol | 1941-1971 | ✓ |
| B-0008267 | biography | Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0009215 | biography | Moebien Wadee | 1943 | – |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0080452 | biography | Benjamin Johnson Langa | – | ✓ |
| B-0008500 | biography | Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews | 1901-1968 | – |
| B-0122636 | biography | Adam Glasser | 1955 | – |
| B-0086255 | biography | Harry Snitcher | 1911-1999 | – |
| 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-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0008191 | biography | Noni Jabavu | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0009065 | biography | Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh | 1917-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0008456 | biography | Helen Elizabeth Martins | 1897-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0064907 | biography | Marlene van Niekerk | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0008533 | biography | Zanemvula Kizito Mda | 1948 | ✓ |
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…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
Goldstone was born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with honours in 1962. World…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographySandile Ngcobo
Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo was born on 1 March 1953 in Durban, South Africa. Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and…
BiographyCassim Mohammed Bassa
Mohammed Cassim Bassa the estate agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern Cape.His father was a migrant mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…
BiographyNorman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers…
BiographyAhmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up…
BiographyMoebien Wadee
Moebien Wadee was born in Sophiatown in 1943. He schooled in the area before his family moved to Kliptown. He studied medicine at Glasgow University in…
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…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who…
BiographyAdam Glasser
Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his…
BiographyHarry Snitcher
Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924,…
BiographyLawrence Folley
Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir. Lawrence…
BiographyAlexander Leor Fattal
Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts where his younger brother…
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…
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh was born in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three…
BiographyHelen Elizabeth Martins
Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent…
BiographyMarlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954, on a farm in Tygerhoek near Caledon. An outstanding intellectual, philosopher and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a…