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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008498 | biography | Don Mattera | 1935 | – |
| B-0008191 | biography | Noni Jabavu | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0076375 | biography | Dr. Percy Yutar | 1911-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008238 | biography | Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng | 1919-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0122626 | biography | Frank Alexander Landman | 1918-1990 | – |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
| B-0008121 | biography | Oupa Joshua Gqozo | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0064873 | biography | Freda Levson | 1911-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0009097 | biography | Enoch Mankayi Sontonga | 1873-1905 | ✓ |
| B-0009020 | biography | Reginald (Reggie) September | 1923-2013 | – |
| B-0008136 | biography | Harry Themba Gwala | 1920-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0008313 | biography | Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota | 1948-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0095146 | biography | Amy Thornton | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0008190 | biography | Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu | 1885-1959 | ✓ |
| B-0095118 | biography | Barney Simon | 1932-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0008814 | biography | Nongqawuse | 1841-1898 | ✓ |
| B-0066409 | biography | Daniel William Alexander | 1883-1970 | ✓ |
| B-0084103 | biography | Dr. Abu Baker Asvat | 1943-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0123170 | biography | Aubrey Levin | 1938 | – |
| B-0008741 | biography | Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa) | 1937-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0009237 | biography | Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood | 1874-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0068220 | biography | James Madhlope Phillips | 1919-1987 | – |
| B-0075601 | biography | Bathandwa Ndondo | 1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008709 | biography | Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles | 1920-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008027 | biography | Patrick Baker Duncan | 1918-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008444 | biography | Gill Marcus | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0068644 | biography | Ben Turok | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0125758 | biography | Stephen Marais | 1956 | – |
| B-0007829 | biography | Christiaan Neethling Barnard | 1922-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0125899 | biography | Mmusi Aloysias Maimane | 1980 | ✓ |
BiographyDon Mattera
… grandparents not his parents. He grew up in the mixed area of Johannesburg called Sophiatown before the apartheid … people classified “Coloured” by the…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
… Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his … his hand…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
… Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a mineworker and…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of…
BiographyMartin Plaut
… Germany, but left in the 1930s due to the persecution of Jews. Plaut schooled at Saint Georges and from Standard 8 … his first degree in Social Science from…
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
… was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled … and Bodibeng Senior High School. In 1972 he…
BiographyFreda Levson
… in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. … school years and as a consequence…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
… Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale ……
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a … involvement began when he came under the…
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
… and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After … and Cable Workers” Union in Howick…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. Most of Lekota’s schooling was completed in Kroonstad. He … soccer field. In 1971,…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… sixteen years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist … the Springbok Legion , a progressive…
BiographyDavidson Don Tengo Jabavu
… Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the…
BiographyBarney Simon
… Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non-racial Market…
BiographyNongqawuse
… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ … may have a better life. He was a…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin’s family were ardent supporters of the Party’s ideals. Levin studied…
BiographyNdazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)
… 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from … the USA and Britain…
BiographyJosephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
… was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife Frances ……
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… in politics in 1940 when he was elected chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, number 2 branch of the Transvaal, a position he held until1953 . That same…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… Lulama Sidumo (nee Ndondo),worked. Following the death of his grandmother, his mother took him to her elder sister’s … in 1980. Ndondo then registered at the…
BiographyLucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles
… studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were … work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … for over a decade, attracting notice from the beginning of his…
BiographyGill Marcus
… born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in … children in 1969. Marcus went on to study…
BiographyBen Turok
… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came … South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the…
Stephen Marais
… was a physicist and an agnostic and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and inequalities of Apartheid made a huge impact on…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High School, … he matriculated in 1997. He graduated…