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| B-0007999 | biography | Christiaan Rudolf De Wet | 1854-1922 | ✓ |
| B-0009199 | biography | Leonora van den Heever | 1926 | ✓ |
| B-0007869 | biography | Maggie Bopalamo | 1939 | – |
| B-0064852 | biography | Matthew Goniwe | 1947-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0064905 | biography | Mannie Manim | 1941 | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008339 | biography | Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski | 1953-1989 | – |
| B-0007955 | biography | Ernest Cole | 1940-1990 | – |
| B-0084122 | biography | Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk | 1946 | – |
| B-0068475 | biography | Maniben Sita | 1926-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0093590 | biography | Ellen Lambert | 1934-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008153 | biography | Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse | 1927-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008080 | biography | Pierre Jacy Fourie | 1943-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008732 | biography | Jayaseelen Naidoo | 1954 | – |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0068069 | biography | Dr Silas Modiri Molema | 1891-1965 | – |
| B-0007894 | biography | Yvonne Bryceland | 1925-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0068246 | biography | Jordan Kush Ngubane | 1917-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068309 | biography | Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay | 1908-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0008853 | biography | John O’ Malley | 1922-2005 | – |
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…
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…
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…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
… was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, Todd, was a … had an all-black cast. King Kong helped…
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski…
BiographyErnest Cole
… went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of these laws Cole was…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and the transition to the apartheid regime … to the Population Registration Act. …
BiographyManiben Sita
… (TIC) in 1928. He was an executive member and chairman of the Pretoria branch before becoming president of the TIC. Her father encouraged all seven of his…
BiographyEllen Lambert
… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . … She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of…
BiographyRev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse
… 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles William Hendrickse, both school … three decades, rising…
BiographyPierre Jacy Fourie
… a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. He grew … Martin, who earned but a meager income,…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
… on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo … Biko and Barney Pityana and their…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
… after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
… in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief…
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
… New York Times called her an actress 'who reads the soul' of Fugard. Bryceland's collaborations with Fugard were many … and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
… was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in … in 1937, Ngubane was offered the…
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
… Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi … family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… six years with Daily News he became chief subeditor of The Northern Newspaper , which was serving the Copper … Ndola, Zambia. Five years later he became…