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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008035 | biography | Charles Du Val | 1810-1872 | ✓ |
| B-0095263 | biography | John Collins | 1905-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0007948 | biography | Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee | 1931-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0094430 | biography | Billy Modise | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0095114 | biography | Kalushi Drake Koka | 1927-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008076 | biography | Lawrence Folley | 1928-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0008935 | biography | Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi | 1955 | – |
| B-0007901 | biography | Sidney Percival Bunting | 1873-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008347 | biography | Louis Luyt | 1932-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008223 | biography | Clements Kadalie | 1896-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0007986 | biography | Johannes (Jan) de Klerk | 1903-1979 | – |
| B-0094343 | biography | Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin) | 1914-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008887 | biography | Jacob Hendrik Pierneef | 1886-1957 | – |
| B-0007999 | biography | Christiaan Rudolf De Wet | 1854-1922 | ✓ |
| B-0009199 | biography | Leonora van den Heever | 1926 | ✓ |
| B-0007869 | biography | Maggie Bopalamo | 1939 | – |
| B-0007987 | biography | Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey | 1847-1914 | – |
| B-0064852 | biography | Matthew Goniwe | 1947-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0064905 | biography | Mannie Manim | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
| B-0095156 | biography | Ethel Walt | 1925-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008472 | biography | Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) | 1935-2008 | – |
| B-0008036 | biography | James Mata Dwane | 1848-1916 | ✓ |
| B-0066279 | biography | Mapetla Frank Mohapi | 1947-1976 | – |
| B-0091115 | biography | Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis) | 1949-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0007860 | biography | Molly Blackburn | 1930-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0122648 | biography | Olive Peace Landman | 1919 | – |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
BiographyCharles Du Val
… Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and … associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape Town at…
BiographyJohn Collins
… at Cambridge University. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1928. Collins became ordained at the Canterbury Cathedral and he became a curate…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… his high school career Coetsee attended the University of the Orange Free State where he completed his BA and LLB in … council for extra-mural studies and…
BiographyBilly Modise
… which forced black people and his personal experiences of racism served as a political awakening for Modise. Just … university. In January 1955 he enrolled…
BiographyKalushi Drake Koka
… Kalushi Drake Koka was born in Pietersburg on the 9th of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after … in politics, serving as Transvaal vice…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Orpheus Choir. Lawrence was soon given the opportunity of performing some of the baritone solos. It was here that he met the popular … Orchestra. Marie…
BiographyNgoako Abel Ramatlhodi
… High in Tembisa Township, Johannesburg . Upon completion of his matric, he decided to enrol for law studies at the University of the North (renamed…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
… Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review . His…
BiographyLouis Luyt
… he captained the Orange Free State province. By the end of the 1960s Luyt had become a millionaire. In 1989 he took over the Presidency of the Transvaal…
BiographyClements Kadalie
… Nyasaland, presently Malawi . He was the second born son of Mr and Mrs. Musa Kadalie Muwamba.He was born into chiefly … set out to see the world,workin as a…
BiographyJohannes (Jan) de Klerk
… born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De … student politics. From 1925 to 1926…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
… on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when … are traced back to when she joined…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef … experience brought Pierneef into contact…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married…
Leonora van den Heever
… went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the normaalkollege in … Brink, and began her LLB part-time…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble … the way she served time in prison, following…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van Rooyen). He was born near Winburg on 22 October 1847. After the Battle…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His parents David and Elizabeth were farm labourers. He was the…
BiographyMannie Manim
… He worked for two years as a technical director of the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg when it opened, then … some years, eventually joining the Performing…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
… Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His father, … on to Lovedale. As a result he became a…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve … , she was involved in political…
BiographyEthel Walt
… White South African women, settling for a life of leisure and privilege while ignoring the realities of apartheid. However, her courage and conviction forced…
BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
… Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei . After the death of his first…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
… Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong personality. In 1894-1895 he was … Dwane and his family moved to…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now … on 2 September 1947. He studied at the…
Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)
… Cape Town . In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and President of its the social welfare arm…
BiographyMolly Blackburn
… Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in Port…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. … river, and corresponds to the…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now ……
BiographyJosie Palmer
… Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the … be with her husband, Edwin…