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| B-0008097 | biography | Christopher W. M. Gell | 1917-1958 | ✓ |
| B-0068612 | biography | Elliot Tonjeni | 1895-1962 | – |
| B-0073992 | biography | Petros Molefe | 1924-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0095160 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Webster | 1942-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0009218 | biography | David Joseph Webster | 1944-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0008412 | biography | Magnus Malan | 1930-2011 | – |
| B-0008283 | biography | Julius Thamsanqa Kuboni | 1964-2000 | – |
| B-0009198 | biography | Rosalie van der Gucht | – | – |
| B-0095153 | biography | Pieter Dirk-Uys | 1945 | – |
| B-0007813 | biography | Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger | 1894-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008444 | biography | Gill Marcus | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0067969 | biography | Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana | 1899-1995 | – |
| B-0007807 | biography | Jim Bailey | 1919-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0008321 | biography | Dr Arthur Elias Letele | 1916-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008532 | biography | Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda | 1916-1993 | – |
| B-0009219 | biography | Trineke Weijdema | – | – |
| B-0068943 | biography | Sydney Sipho Sepamla | 1932-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0067978 | biography | Peter Mokaba | 1959-2002 | – |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008483 | biography | Thinus Mathee | 1964 | – |
| B-0008274 | biography | Moses Mauane Kotane | 1905-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0122211 | biography | Junaid Ahmed | 1959-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008660 | biography | Lele Jacob Motaung | 1954 | – |
| B-0009152 | biography | John Ronald Tolkien | 1892-1973 | ✓ |
| B-0080383 | biography | Zolile Hamilton Keke | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008271 | biography | Susanna Helena Kok | 1911-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0074549 | biography | Tiyani Lybon Mabasa | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008860 | biography | Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad | 1912 | ✓ |
| B-0068251 | biography | Dr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe | 1919-1976 | – |
| B-0068071 | biography | William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr | 1954 | – |
BiographyChristopher W. M. Gell
Christopher Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge…
BiographyElliot Tonjeni
Elliot Tonjeni was born in 1895 in the Transkei and later went to Cape Town, where he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and was active in the…
BiographyPetros Molefe
Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Webster
Edward Webster was born on 29 March 1942 and educated at Selborne College. He obtained a BA Honours degree and University Education Diploma from Rhodes…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South…
BiographyMagnus Malan
Magnus Malan was born in Pretoria on 30 January 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and…
BiographyJulius Thamsanqa Kuboni
Kuboni was born in Johannesburg. Like his father, Gabriel Kuboni, he was a sculptor. According to Julius, his father had the most influence on his work as a…
BiographyRosalie van der Gucht
Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech and drama education…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of…
BiographyGill Marcus
Gill Marcus was born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in Johannesburg, where she…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time…
BiographyJim Bailey
James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country…
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
Arthur Elias Letele was born on 2nd October 1915 in Maseru, Lesotho. His father, Elias Letele, was a school inspector. His mother, Catherine, was of Xhosa…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and…
BiographyTrineke Weijdema
In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola. The whole…
BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali…
BiographyPeter Mokaba
Peter Mokaba was born on 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school education. During the 1976 uprisings, Mokaba became a…
BiographyRahima Moosa
Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. As a teenager, Rahima and her identical…
BiographyThinus Mathee
Mathee was born in Harrismith. After completed his schooling, he completed his national service in the SA Army. While at school, he developed a keen interest…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
BiographyJunaid Ahmed
International award winning filmmaker Junaid Ahmed was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary School…
BiographyLele Jacob Motaung
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners and banned…
BiographyJohn Ronald Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 3 January 1892. After his father died, Tolkien and his mother went to England…
BiographyZolile Hamilton Keke
Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh High School in East London where…
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in Brandfort, Free State. Her father Frederik Johannes Kok was a school principal in Brandfort, where she matriculated in…
BiographyTiyani Lybon Mabasa
Tiyani Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in Soweto.During his high…
BiographyGoolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
Pahad left India for South Africa in 1919, but returned to India with his father in 1922 to continue with his educational studies. When Dadoo came to India in…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
William Andrew Hofmeyr, popularly known as Advocate Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa[i] . After matriculating from…