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| B-0067723 | biography | Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0008505 | biography | Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008704 | biography | Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0007978 | biography | Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal | 1892-1950 | – |
| B-0008560 | biography | Aleta Michaletos | 1952 | – |
| B-0068387 | biography | Cecil John Rhodes | 1853-1902 | – |
| B-0067726 | biography | Lord Kitchener | 1850-1916 | – |
| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0007774 | biography | Arthur Albert Hugh Adams | 1929-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0125265 | biography | Julius Nyerere | 1922-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0007766 | biography | Abraham Faure | 1795-1875 | – |
| B-0007823 | biography | Elijah Barayi | 1930-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0095602 | biography | Leo Marquard | 1897-1974 | – |
| B-0007890 | biography | Peter McKenzie Brown | 1924-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008105 | biography | Denis Theodore Goldberg | 1933-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0122965 | biography | Martin Tose | 1958-2004 | – |
| B-0125201 | biography | Sam Tambani | 1953-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0007981 | biography | Johannes Jacobus Degenaar | 1926 | – |
| B-0068227 | biography | Reverend Beyers Naudé | 1915 | – |
| B-0007912 | biography | Ismail Ahmed Cachalia | 1908-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0009169 | biography | Rick Turner | 1941-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008547 | biography | Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman | 1809-1882 | – |
| B-0093133 | biography | Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0068085 | biography | Ruth Mompati | 1925-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008292 | biography | James la Guma | 1894-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0094958 | biography | Jonathan Clegg | 1953-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007857 | biography | Advocate George Bizos | 1927-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0074109 | biography | Eulalie Doreen Stott | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0073091 | biography | Vuyani Mabaxa | 1967-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
… in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Natal. It was at university that Phaahla…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
… in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the … lived with a relative. From 1973…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are now both pensioners. He grew … High School in…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal was the son of the Jariam Singh, a former President of the Transvaal Indian Association. He received his early … A year after his…
BiographyAleta Michaletos
… 1952. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Pretoria in 1974. Since 1971 she has actively served on the boards of several Foundations,…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in the small hamlet of Bishops Stortford, England. He was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes and his second wife,…
BiographyLord Kitchener
… over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary of state for war at the beginning of World War I Kitchener organized armies on an unprecedented scale…
BiographyArnold Selby
… when not many whites were prepared to face the hazards of joining the struggle for the rights of the black majority, he became involved in the trade union…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated … and paper and he taught himself to…
BiographyJulius Nyerere
… Julius Nyerere was born on the 13th of April 1922 in Butiama village, next to Lake Victoria, in … Tanzania’s territory from 1919 until 1961). He was the son…
BiographyAbraham Faure
… was born on 29 August 1795 in Stellenbosch. Faure was one of the leading personalities of his tune in church and intellectual circles at the Cape. … which…
BiographyElijah Barayi
… was born in Lingelihle, (Cradock ) Eastern Cape, on 15th of June in 1930. He was one of eight children of working class parents. Barayi attended Lwana…
BiographyLeo Marquard
… Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and his mother, Margaret, was also at the forefront of church’s activities…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… clandestinely playing polo outside the restriction zone of his 60s banning order. He was educated privately at … and ‘Native Law and Administration’ at the…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… Sam and Annie, had both been born in London, the children of Lithuanian Jews who had left the Pale of Settlement to escape the Russian pogroms. Sam and Annie…
BiographyMartin Tose
… born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the ruling National … victory. The year was also characterised…
BiographySam Tambani
… Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni …
BiographyJohannes Jacobus Degenaar
… man he was sent to the Cape to study at the University of Stellenbosch, where he completed his M.A. in 1948 and a … in 1950. He later went on to study at the…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… who was close to his father, Jozua Naudé. Naudé was one of eight children and was born into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
… was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was the chairman of the British…
BiographyRick Turner
… He was highly influential in the re-emergence of the Black labour movement and one of the first in the White-left to appreciate the significance of the Black…
BiographyBishop Nathaniel James Merriman
… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester … with W. E…
Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
… fast-tracked for advanced training in Moscow. She was one of three women who were chosen for the programme. After the … Sedibe was deployed in for a period…
BiographyRuth Mompati
… Khanyesa in the North West Province . She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko and her father was Khaonyatse/Gaonyatse … Teachers’ Union. The issues then were…
BiographyJames la Guma
… A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, Arnold, and his wife Jemima. While the domestic…
BiographyJonathan Clegg
… England for Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South Africa … that available to his peers at the…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied … arranged for someone to get a permit to…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
… and Eulalie remained with her grandparents. From the age of six Eulalie attended boarding schools where she displayed early on, some of her leadership skills…
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
… up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s, he was one of many…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer … the White minority increasingly weakened the…