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| B-0008688 | biography | Samuel E. K. Mqhayi | 1875-1945 | – |
| B-0008034 | biography | Bettie du Toit | 1910-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0147318 | biography | Mohamed Farouk Asvat | – | – |
| B-0007904 | biography | Arthur Butelezi | – | – |
| B-0008515 | biography | Govan Mbeki | 1910-2001 | – |
| B-0098414 | biography | Chris van Wyk | 1957-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0151628 | biography | Gladys Thomas | 1935-2022 | ✓ |
| B-0008303 | biography | Lesley Lawson | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0144753 | biography | Peter Moonsammy | 1928-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0008075 | biography | Bill Flynn | 1948-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0094749 | biography | Victor Mhleli Ntoni | 1947-2013 | – |
| B-0149496 | biography | Kausobson Kausob | – | ✓ |
| B-0149443 | biography | Josiah Thugwane | 1971 | – |
| B-0009142 | biography | Jo Thorpe | 1921-1995 | – |
| B-0097205 | biography | Miriam Tlali | 1933-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0098835 | biography | Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0067957 | biography | Florence Mkhize | 1932-1999 | – |
| B-0122372 | biography | Jan Smiesing | 1697-1734 | – |
| B-0149713 | biography | Fred Khumalo | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0141674 | biography | Moosa “Mosie” Moolla | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0093701 | biography | Ben Mclennan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| A-0016851 | article | Black South African literature | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0016907 | article | Early African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0008589 | biography | William “Bloke” Modisane | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0067757 | biography | Margaret Nash | 1929-2011 | ✓ |
| R-0123640 | archive | Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards | 30 Jun 2017 | – |
| B-0007945 | biography | Peter Clarke | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0007813 | biography | Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger | 1894-1980 | ✓ |
BiographySamuel E. K. Mqhayi
Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of Imvo…
BiographyBettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her mother had passed…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… political spectrum from 1984 onwards, for his views and writings - including from writers belonging to this alliance. …
BiographyArthur Butelezi
Butelezi was educated at the Wesleyan Methodist School, Volks rust where he received drawing lessons. He then attended Kinlinton Training School in Pretoria…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
Govan Mbeki (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian…
BiographyBill Flynn
Bill Flynn was born on 13 December 1948 in Cape Town. He was a stage and screen actor, known for his roles in films like Heel Against the Head and Running…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle,…
BiographyKausobson Kausob
A number of Korana under the leadership of Captain Jan Bloem Jr investigated this complaint in the presence and possibly also under the influence of Fourie and…
BiographyJosiah Thugwane
Josiah Thugwane was the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He was born on 22 April 1971 in the small town Bethal, eastern…
BiographyJo Thorpe
Jo Thorpe was born in 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town. She grew up in Mooi River and completed her high school education at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School…
BiographyMiriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali was born in Doornfontein in Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng). She grew up in Sophiatown. Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of…
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali was born on 17 January 1940 in Vryheid, Natal, where he attended Inkmana High School. His parents were schoolteachers. He moved to…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
BiographyJan Smiesing
This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale…
BiographyFred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the industrial area of…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
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…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… cynicism. The disillusion is strongly reflected in the writings of the time. Increasingly, because of the necessary …
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… wrote down their laws, letters and other documents. These writings are a precious record of this culture and language. … we are able to learn the history of…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyMargaret Nash
Margaret Nash was born at Milford-on-Sea in England on 1 March 1929. In 1931, her family moved to South Africa and settled in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards
… Table of Contents Editorial Entries Part 1 Autobiographical Writings Part 2 Corespondence Section 1 General (Dated) Part …
BiographyPeter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and Dockyard handyman…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
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…