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| B-0008559 | biography | Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0068445 | biography | Errol T. Shanley | 1911-2002 | – |
| B-0007913 | biography | Yusuf Cachalia | 1915-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0068069 | biography | Dr Silas Modiri Molema | 1891-1965 | – |
| B-0008790 | biography | Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0067866 | biography | Justice Gizenga Mpanza | 1937-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0009102 | biography | Irma Stern | 1894-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008437 | biography | Trevor Andrew Manuel | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0065504 | biography | Nöel Robb | 1913-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0125398 | biography | DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels) | 1968 | ✓ |
| B-0125363 | biography | Athol Edwin Thorne | 1921-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0094432 | biography | Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka | 1938-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0080054 | biography | Sadie Forman | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008636 | biography | Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley | 1946-2006 | – |
| B-0068895 | biography | Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu | 1934 | – |
| B-0008257 | biography | Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo | 1914-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0008955 | biography | Fabian Defu Ribeiro | 1933-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0068250 | biography | Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela | – | – |
| B-0068169 | biography | Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo | 1917-1957 | – |
| B-0122648 | biography | Olive Peace Landman | 1919 | – |
| B-0068663 | biography | Eric Miller | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0099833 | biography | Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa | – | – |
| B-0095228 | biography | Hannah Margaret Stanton | 1913-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0096731 | biography | Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa | 1921-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0074123 | biography | Richard Steele | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008010 | biography | Stephen J.C. Dlamini | 1913-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0098100 | biography | Soromini Kallichurum | 1932-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
BiographyNokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. She has been writing and performing on stage and…
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents and Anna Else Bernhardt born in Hamburg…
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
Dr. Silas Modiri Molema (Silas Modiri) was born in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and…
BiographyJabulani Sam Nhlengethwa
Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of Springs, Gauteng (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals in the area made his…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
Justice "Gizenga" Mpanza was born on 5 September 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
Trevor Manuel was born 31 January,1956 in Kensington, Cape Town. His father, Abraham Manuel, worked for the Cape Town City Council.Manuel attended Harold…
BiographyNöel Robb
Nöel Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife,…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family soon moved to Durban where he attended school and university. His parents were…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka was born on 10 June 1938 in Raphahla Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale Phokanoka…
BiographySadie Forman
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights, Sadie Forman (nee Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley,…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu. He attended the local…
BiographyNnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho. She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930…
BiographyFabian Defu Ribeiro
Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee Mothibe). His father came from…
BiographyNomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela
While in exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From September 1986 to…
BiographyHenry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
Henry Nxumalo was born in 1917 at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika…
BiographyEric Miller
Eric Miller was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered…
BiographyNdeutala Selma Hishongwa
Ndeutala Hishongwa was born in 1952 in Okalili, northwest Namibia. She trained as a nurse and in 1974 joined SWAPO-in-exile in Zambia. She was sent to Sweden…
BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom Stanton CR, in South…
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographyRichard Steele
Richard Steele was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
Stephen Dlamini was born in 30 November 1913 in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal). As a factory worker, Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks,…
BiographySoromini Kallichurum
Soromini Kallichurum was born in 1932 in Ladysmith, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at…
BiographyHelen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…