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| B-0080454 | biography | Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0007935 | biography | Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson | 1931-2012 | – |
| B-0008560 | biography | Aleta Michaletos | 1952 | – |
| B-0008549 | biography | Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer | 1947 | – |
| B-0007975 | biography | Lionel Davis | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0096005 | biography | Frederik Bester Laubscher | 1927-2013 | – |
| B-0094976 | biography | Neville Wilson Curtis | 1947-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0080352 | biography | Sedick Isaacs | 1939-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008479 | biography | Johannes Maswanganyi | 1948 | – |
| B-0098638 | biography | Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa | 1941-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0096462 | biography | Elsie Nair | 1927-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008127 | biography | Rev. Aldin Grout | 1803-1894 | – |
| B-0008962 | biography | Paul Herman Robinson | 1908-1970 | – |
| B-0008291 | biography | Alex la Guma | 1925-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0007946 | biography | Hestrie Cloete | 1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008732 | biography | Jayaseelen Naidoo | 1954 | – |
| B-0122132 | biography | Wim Botha | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0093701 | biography | Ben Mclennan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0007911 | biography | Azhar Cachalia | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0007819 | biography | Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi | 1865 | – |
| B-0068168 | biography | Twasile Champion Galela | 1947-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008833 | biography | Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008789 | biography | Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo | 1903-1957 | – |
| B-0009166 | biography | Stephen Vukile Tshwete | 1938-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0096411 | biography | Zuleika Sarojini Christopher | 1924-1992 | – |
| B-0068907 | biography | King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu | 1948-2021 | – |
| B-0066325 | biography | Joel Joffe | – | – |
| B-0009020 | biography | Reginald (Reggie) September | 1923-2013 | – |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
Justice Arthur Chaskalson was born in Johannesburg on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954…
BiographyAleta Michaletos
Aleta Michaletos was born in Pretoria in 1952. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Pretoria in 1974. Since 1971 she has actively served on…
BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district…
BiographyLionel Davis
Lionel Bazil Davis was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage…
BiographyFrederik Bester Laubscher
Frederik Bester Howard (Erik) Laubscher was born on 3 February 1927 in Tulbagh, in the Cape. His father was a Glasgow trained physician with strong interests…
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
Neville Wilson Curtis was born on 16 October 1947, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John …
BiographySedick Isaacs
Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the…
BiographyElsie Nair
Elsie Nair (nee Goldstone) was born in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1927. After completing her primary school education, she joined her mother who…
BiographyRev. Aldin Grout
Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to study in…
BiographyPaul Herman Robinson
Paul Herman Robinson was born in Durban and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at the Natal Technical College. He did his apprenticeship in…
BiographyAlex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of…
BiographyHestrie Cloete
Hestrie Cloete (née Storbeck) was born in 1978 in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She grew up in the small town of Coligny, Western Transvaal (now North…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
Jayaseelen “Jay” Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo…
BiographyWim Botha
Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
BiographyBen Mclennan
Ben Mclennan was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early…
BiographyAzhar Cachalia
Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in Benoni, Gauteng province, South Africa. He…
BiographyChief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi
Chief Bhambatha (sometimes spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi…
BiographyTwasile Champion Galela
Twasile Champion Galela was born in Korsten, Port Elizabeth on 24 October 1947. He received his primary education at Hillskraal in Korsten. His family…
BiographyBhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange Free…
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East London…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood Park, Durban, where…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu…
Joel Joffe
Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Abraham Joffe, a businessman, had come from Latvia and…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
Reginald September was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter. He first attended…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…