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27,193 records
| Src | ||||
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| B-0008557 | biography | Raymond Mhlaba | 1920-2005 | – |
| B-0007828 | biography | Yetta Barenblatt | 1913-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0095931 | biography | Chris McGregor | 1936-1990 | – |
| B-0070067 | biography | Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira | 1931-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0068262 | biography | John Kgwana Nkadimeng | 1925-2020 | – |
| B-0007984 | biography | Ethel de Keyser | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008564 | biography | Nomkhosi Mary Mini | 1959-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0093742 | biography | Julian Raymond Cobbing | 1944 | – |
| B-0123071 | biography | Barend de Wet | 1956-2017 | – |
| B-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008720 | biography | Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge | 1942-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008159 | biography | Baruch Hirson | 1921-1999 | – |
| B-0068388 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Roux | 1903-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0074796 | biography | Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0068312 | biography | Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje | 1917-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0009252 | biography | Max Yergan | 1893-1975 | – |
| B-0008753 | biography | Sister Bernard Ncube | 1932-2012 | – |
| B-0008680 | biography | James “Sofasonke” Mpanza | 1889-1970 | – |
| B-0008138 | biography | James “Jobe” Hadebe | 1923 | – |
| B-0008586 | biography | Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele | 1948-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008437 | biography | Trevor Andrew Manuel | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008185 | biography | Dean Hutton | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008370 | biography | Fikile Magadledla | 1952-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0068679 | biography | Matsobane Morris Matsemela | 1931 | ✓ |
| B-0096207 | biography | Francois Roux | 1927-2013 | – |
| B-0094335 | biography | Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel | 1946-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0009054 | biography | Annie Silinga | 1910-1984 | – |
| B-0007887 | biography | André Philippus Brink | 1935-2015 | – |
BiographyRaymond Mhlaba
… village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings died in childhood. Mhlaba attended school at ……
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
… encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, further … their municipality. Barenblatt later…
BiographyChris McGregor
… . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where his father was a principal at a … first piano lessons. He also became…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
… was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s … He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km)…
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… became a full-time organiser for the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions. Whilst he was working for the Council, it joined the South African…
BiographyEthel de Keyser
… to study further, and it was there that she learned of the detention of her adored elder brother, Jack Tarshish, during the state of emergency , which…
BiographyNomkhosi Mary Mini
… Nomkhosi Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National ……
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
… was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster…
BiographyBarend de Wet
… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible freedoms…
BiographyDorothy Masuka
… Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
… morning after his murder. She vehemently refuted the claim of police General Coetzee that the African National Congress … to his contribution in the struggle…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
… were subjected to in the old Romanov empire. At the age of four, Hirson was enrolled at the Talmud Torah, a Hebrew … and studied as a part-time student at…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
… Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up … In 1923 he joined the CPSA and was drawn…
BiographyVice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu
… in MK camps until 1979 when he was deployed as Chief of Logistics in Luanda, Angola. He later served in ANC Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia as the co…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
… in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following … in executing murals as a teenager, using a…
Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje
… Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made … minded students in establishing a…
BiographyMax Yergan
… born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield … 1920 to 1936 he lived in South Africa as…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
… in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was elected president of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) . Sister Ncube was detained six … attention, she was…
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
… in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a crusader for better … following…
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
… 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, he became a teacher and active member of the…
BiographyThamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country … autobiography, 1984)…
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… a young boy Manuel was exposed to the negative aspects of the apartheid regime when his Black neighbours were forced … when he joined the Labour Party Youth…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
… He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His…
BiographyDean Hutton
… their experiences made them tend towards being an observer of people more than a participant. They constantly drew sketches of people, striving for realism -…
BiographyFikile Magadledla
… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, … several books and wrote poetry to accompany…
BiographyMatsobane Morris Matsemela
… dairy farm in Lady Selbourne, and later joined the staff of the Pretoria General Hospital. He joined the African … (ANC) in 1957 in Lady Selbourne after…
BiographyFrancois Roux
… 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies … Roux, a master draughtsman, is…
BiographyProfessor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
… “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). He is the seventh…
Annie Silinga
… was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she moved to Cape…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
… challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. André Philippus Brink was born on 29 May 1935, in Vrede…