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| Src | ||||
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| B-0149426 | biography | Bheki Mvulane | 1985 | – |
| B-0008321 | biography | Dr Arthur Elias Letele | 1916-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0009017 | biography | Pixley ka Isaka Seme | 1881-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0149273 | biography | Morris Ranoto | 1970 | ✓ |
| B-0007929 | biography | Jan Celliers | 1865-1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008852 | biography | Vincent Oliphant | 1954 | – |
| B-0008343 | biography | David Lurie | 1951 | – |
| B-0008024 | biography | Thys Dullaart | – | – |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0123687 | biography | Mattheus Uys Krige | 1910-1987 | – |
| B-0141671 | biography | Buzwe Stanley Mabizela | 1934-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0008719 | biography | Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi | 1929-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008069 | biography | Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer | 1908-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0150469 | biography | Sumboornam Pillay | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0007945 | biography | Peter Clarke | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0073822 | biography | Hemant Kumar Waghmarae | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008592 | biography | Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi | 1925-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0008096 | biography | Bernard Gcwensa | 1918-1984 | – |
| B-0068365 | biography | Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko | 1917 | – |
| B-0068303 | biography | Meshach Pelem | 1859-1936 | – |
| B-0086255 | biography | Harry Snitcher | 1911-1999 | – |
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0008274 | biography | Moses Mauane Kotane | 1905-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
| B-0149303 | biography | Frans Ramaro | – | ✓ |
| B-0007904 | biography | Arthur Butelezi | – | – |
| B-0008428 | biography | Ernest Methuen Mancoba | 1904-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008952 | biography | Jonathan Neil Rhodes | 1969 | ✓ |
| B-0009226 | biography | Frank Wiles | 1881-1963 | – |
| B-0097303 | biography | Sheila Cussons | 1922-2004 | ✓ |
BiographyBheki Mvulane
Bheki Mvulane died in detention on 29 March, 1985. A fellow-detainee of Mvulane said: "I saw a white policeman in Katlehong Police Station fling Bheki…
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
Arthur Elias Letele was born on 2nd October 1915 in Maseru, Lesotho. His father, Elias Letele, was a school inspector. His mother, Catherine, was of Xhosa…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…
BiographyMorris Ranoto
Morris Ranoto was banished on19 January 1955 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal, [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] to Natives…
BiographyJan Celliers
Jan Celliers was born on 12 January 1865 on the farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an…
BiographyVincent Oliphant
Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale…
BiographyDavid Lurie
Born in Cape Town, Lurie studied (Philosophy, Economics) and taught (Philosophy) at UCT before going to the London School of Economics where he did research…
BiographyThys Dullaart
Dullaart completed his National Diploma in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a fine arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most dynamic literary…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League…
BiographySelbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa Mvusi (known as Selby) was born in Richmond, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 18 June 1929, to Vunina (born Nxasana) and Jotham Mvusi,…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
BiographyPeter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and Dockyard handyman…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. …
BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste…
BiographyBernard Gcwensa
Bernard Gcwensa was born in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at Collies School in…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
Meshach Pelem was born in Mxumbu near King William's Town in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in…
BiographyHarry Snitcher
Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924,…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
BiographyFrans Ramaro
Frans Ramaro and his cousin Morris Ranoto were banished on19 January 1955 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal, [now Polokwane,…
BiographyArthur Butelezi
Butelezi was educated at the Wesleyan Methodist School, Volks rust where he received drawing lessons. He then attended Kinlinton Training School in Pretoria…
BiographyErnest Methuen Mancoba
Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a teacher at the…
BiographyJonathan Neil Rhodes
Jonathan Neil Rhodes, better known as Jonty, was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 July 1969. He grew up in the picturesque Pietermaritzburg town…
BiographyFrank Wiles
Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…
BiographySheila Cussons
Sheila Cussons was born at the Moravian Missionary Station near Piketberg, Western Cape. She matriculated at Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria, Transvaal (now…