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| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008386 | biography | Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels | 1905-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0009017 | biography | Pixley ka Isaka Seme | 1881-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0007779 | biography | Paul Alberts | 1946-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0009218 | biography | David Joseph Webster | 1944-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0008561 | biography | Alfred Milner | 1854-1925 | ✓ |
| B-0008870 | biography | Malcolm Payne | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0007970 | biography | Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo | 1909-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0122314 | biography | Simon van der Stel | 1639-1712 | – |
| B-0094482 | biography | Alec Erwin | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0085150 | biography | Mafika Pascal Gwala | 1946-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008239 | biography | Johannes Jane Tane Kekana | 1840-1887 | – |
| B-0008003 | biography | Bartolomeu Dias | 1450-1500 | ✓ |
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0007781 | biography | Kerr Alexander | 1885-1970 | – |
| B-0008295 | biography | Pius Nkonzo Langa | 1939-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008549 | biography | Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer | 1947 | – |
| B-0123686 | biography | King Sarhili kaHintsa | 1815-1892 | ✓ |
| B-0007862 | biography | Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak | 1945 | – |
| B-0008051 | biography | Suliman Moosa Esakjee | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008500 | biography | Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews | 1901-1968 | – |
| B-0008328 | biography | Neville Allan Lewis | 1895-1972 | – |
| B-0009119 | biography | Oliver Tambo | 1917-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0007878 | biography | Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha | 1932-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0094070 | biography | Archie Mafeje | 1936-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0009051 | biography | Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau | 1937-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0122374 | biography | Anna De Koningh | 1656-1734 | – |
| B-0095262 | biography | Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande | 1958 | – |
| B-0122541 | biography | Pitika Ntuli | 1942 | – |
| B-0008291 | biography | Alex la Guma | 1925-1985 | ✓ |
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was … his parents…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, graduating from the law … children. Following his graduation, he…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…
BiographyPaul Alberts
… Paul Alb erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, … Seunsskool in 1963 after which he attended the University of Pretoria but…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family … steps. In 1970, David Webster joined…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal Republic to ……
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… "First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the … more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness of the game." Malcolm Payne…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… the Indian community to link its destiny with that of the African majority, in building the unity of all the oppressed people and democratic whites of that…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… der Stel’s father duly became the first Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Mauritius. [1] His mother Maria was the daughter of Hendrik…
BiographyAlec Erwin
… School in 1965. He then went to study at the University of Natal and received a B.Econ Honours degree in Economics in … his degree he became a lecturer in…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and … Bantu Authorities Act, Act No 68; the…
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
… was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife NaMahlangu, a member of…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor … witnessed the military defeat and…
BiographyKerr Alexander
… Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. … Street Primary School in Greenock and then, in…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957, he went to work at a shirtmaking … in 1960. Langa then found employment…
BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
… Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the … to study for his B Comm and LLB…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was spurred on by 1) the encroachment of…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when … he became a sexton in the separate…
BiographySuliman Moosa Esakjee
… in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its inception. He served as the Joint Secretary of the…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana … Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje , a…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of British painting and internalised to a high degree the style of Augustus John (1878–1961). The…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape, on 27 October 1917. His…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… and was a good all-round pupil, becoming chairman of debating society, head of the Voortrekkers, a member of the rugby team, an officer in the school cadets,…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
… was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a headmaster of a primary school and his…
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
… Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East Pondoland who became the first state…
BiographyAnna De Koningh
… Anna De Koningh was the daughter of Angela van Bengale. She arrived with Angela from Batavia, … Cape, moving from being a slave to becoming the mistress of…
BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
… on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education organisations, including National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA), Union of…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg , Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest … he got involved in politics, and he was an active member of the…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his … and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of Apartheid …