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| B-0008712 | biography | Brett Murray | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0007927 | biography | Norman Catherine | 1949 | – |
| B-0149334 | biography | Ngoza Mvelase | – | ✓ |
| B-0008012 | biography | Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini | 1944-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008122 | biography | Constance Greaves | 1882-1966 | – |
| B-0008049 | biography | Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus | 1918-1973 | – |
| B-0009227 | biography | Walter Gilbert Wiles | 1875-1966 | – |
| B-0149518 | biography | Shadrack Fuba Zibi | 1879-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0141679 | biography | Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane | 1921-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0009146 | biography | Guy Tillim | 1962 | – |
| B-0008471 | biography | Emma Thandi Mashinini | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0087604 | biography | Dawid Kruiper | – | – |
| B-0007892 | biography | Dennis Brutus | 1924-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0080428 | biography | Rev. Theo Kotze | 1920-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0068419 | biography | Dawood Seedat | 1916-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0007857 | biography | Advocate George Bizos | 1927-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0094345 | biography | Eric Mtshali | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0149435 | biography | Reginald Dudley Forde | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0150017 | biography | Leigh Davids | 1979-2019 | – |
| A-0121027 | article | Forced Removals in South Africa | 25 May 2016 | ✓ |
| B-0123373 | biography | Njinga Ana de Sousa | 1583-1663 | ✓ |
| B-0008740 | biography | Billy Nair | 1929-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0080664 | biography | Mme Makwena Matlala | – | ✓ |
| B-0008505 | biography | Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008367 | biography | Elizabeth Mafekeng | 1918-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0123686 | biography | King Sarhili kaHintsa | 1815-1892 | ✓ |
| B-0074800 | biography | Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee | 1950-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0123949 | biography | Mokgadi Caster Semenya | 1991 | ✓ |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
BiographyBrett Murray
Brett Murray was born in Pretoria in 1961. From 1985-1989 he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a Bachelor…
BiographyNorman Catherine
Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo…
BiographyNgoza Mvelase
According to documentation related to Ngoza Mvelase’s banishment, community conflict in the Msinga District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] in previous years…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
Chris Dlamini was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting factory…
BiographyConstance Greaves
Constance Helen Greaves was born in Brighton, Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This…
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
Barend Jacobus Erasmus was born to Barend Jacobus Gerrit Wessel Erasmus and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father…
BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
Walter Gilbert Wiles was born in Cambridge, England in 1875. Wiles was one of the five artist-sons of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Of all the five sons, he was…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
BiographyGuy Tillim
Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…
BiographyDawid Kruiper
Dawid Kruiper was born in the Kalahari National Park (now Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) in 1936. He referred to himself as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was…
BiographyDennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
The Reverend Theo Kotze was born at the Heads in Knysna, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 19 May 1920.Kotze came from Afrikaaner stock. His father, a lawyer…
BiographyDawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
Reginald Dudley Forde was born in Johannesburg on 20 April 1940. He completed his schooling at Clifton School in Nottingham Road and obtained three degrees at…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. This may not always involve physical threat or force, but sometimes coercion…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…
Mme Makwena Matlala
The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal (now Polokwane,…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was born on 21 October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He…
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was…
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
Hoosen Mia Haffejee was born on 6 November 1950. Haffejee grew up in Pietermaritzburg and completed his primary schooling at St. Paul’s School and Marion…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child,…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…