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| B-0007794 | biography | Rowley Israel Arenstein | 1918-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0085147 | biography | Peter Henry Abrahams | 1919-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0064794 | biography | Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu | 1931-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0009195 | biography | Anton van Wouw | 1862-1945 | ✓ |
| B-0099280 | biography | Mandla Langa | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0095598 | biography | John Taolo Gaetsewe | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0064876 | biography | John James Issel | 1946-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008419 | biography | Daniël Francois Malherbe | 1881-1969 | – |
| B-0008289 | biography | Taubie Kushlick | 1911-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0008865 | biography | Biddy Partridge | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008636 | biography | Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley | 1946-2006 | – |
| B-0007914 | biography | Rev. James Arthur Calata | 1895-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0095733 | biography | Professor Bernard Magubane | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007939 | biography | Frank Chikane | 1951 | – |
| B-0095599 | biography | Shirley Gunn | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0100307 | biography | Margaret Mary Smith | 1916-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0122528 | biography | Joyce Piliso-Seroke | 1933 | – |
| B-0008657 | biography | Mahomed “Chota” Motala | 1921-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008192 | biography | John Tengo Jabavu | 1859-1921 | ✓ |
| B-0008169 | biography | Barbara Anne Hogan | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008789 | biography | Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo | 1903-1957 | – |
| B-0088574 | biography | Bantu Holomisa | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0070373 | biography | Josiah Khiphusizi Jele | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0125558 | biography | Gerald Patrick Kearney | 1942-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0007874 | biography | Professor Carel Boshoff | 1927-2011 | – |
| B-0008165 | biography | Robert Hodgins | 1920-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008800 | biography | William Frederick Nkomo | 1915-1972 | – |
| B-0070372 | biography | Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0068316 | biography | George Gangen Ponnen | 1913-1996 | ✓ |
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… as “the half-caste community that was a byproduct of the early contact between black and white.” His father, … James Henry Abrahams Deras was from Ethiopia,…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… who was educated at a Mission school, was the headmaster of a high school in Klerksdorp, a small town in the Western … a shack while his mother worked at the…
BiographyAnton van Wouw
… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and…
BiographyMandla Langa
… now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up in the KwaMashu township outside Durban . He is one of nine children in his…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
… early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade … was very active in the African…
BiographyJohn James Issel
… Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town . At a tender age, he worked … It was during this time that he was…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society for Real … to further his studies and soon left for…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
… Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to ……
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… None But Ourselves: The media and the masses in the making of Zimbabwe , with Julie Frederikse. This involved interviewing and photographing hundreds of…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a teacher and later Director of the Durban Indian Child…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… and in national church affairs, serving as president of the Inter-denominational African Ministers' Federation … studying for the Anglican ministry.He joined…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a white-owned farm in the Colenso district of KwaZulu-Natal. His father,…
BiographyFrank Chikane
… Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in … where he matriculated before registering at the University of the North …
BiographyShirley Gunn
… to her political work, she became involved activities of the trade union movement in the Clothing Workers’ Union. Gunn became part of community organisations…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… Doctor. Her mother, Helen Evelyn Zondagh, was a descendant of the Voortekker leader Jacobus Johannes Uys. Margaret was the youngest of their three children. …
BiographyJoyce Piliso-Seroke
… Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University Education … a year. She was offered a scholarship by…
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… medicine in Bombay, India, from 1939. It was at the height of the Indian struggle for liberation against British … He was the second Black doctor to do so…
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
… into his lessons. It was not long before he became one of the brightest boys in school and only a boy when he took … taking a great interest in their studies…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
… Convent School. She then registered at the University of Witwatersrand where she obtained a degree in Development Studies. While at Wits, Hogan joined a…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… Simultaneously he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior … he was based for ten years. It was here…
BiographyBantu Holomisa
… was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei , the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. He…
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
… South Africans, Jele was exposed to the harsh conditions of colonialism and apartheid at an early age. His home-town … to join the fight against apartheid…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the “Mother of the Nation”…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
… some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral letters … brother, a university student, who…
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in … a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I … even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
… born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary … Hare). He also obtained his BA…
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
… (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the University of the North (also known as Turfloop), where he continued with his political activism andbecame a…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now … on a five-year contract, to work on the sugar…