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| B-0007808 | biography | John Thomas Baines | 1820-1875 | ✓ |
| B-0008086 | biography | Harold Athol Fugard | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0148518 | biography | Sebitji Frans Matlala | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0096424 | biography | Lindiwe Mazibuko | 1980 | ✓ |
| B-0095118 | biography | Barney Simon | 1932-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0150418 | biography | Ashlatha Rambally | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0149337 | biography | Livingstone Mqotsi | 1921-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0149319 | biography | Mngqingo Pikani | – | ✓ |
| B-0008018 | biography | Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0007788 | biography | Phyllis Altman | 1919-1999 | ✓ |
| A-0125267 | article | South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions | 23 Aug 2018 | – |
| B-0149350 | biography | Abraham Mogale | – | ✓ |
| A-0125323 | article | The Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe | 31 Aug 2018 | ✓ |
| B-0123473 | biography | Esmé Berman | – | – |
| B-0096200 | biography | Arthur David Bensusan | 1921-2007 | – |
| B-0068246 | biography | Jordan Kush Ngubane | 1917-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0149622 | biography | Carol Moses | 1968-2019 | ✓ |
| A-0122726 | article | Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed | 1 Feb 2017 | – |
| B-0122744 | biography | Buchi Emecheta | 1944-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008135 | biography | Thelma Gutsche | 1915-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0071685 | biography | Basil Paul Petersen February | 1943-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0094345 | biography | Eric Mtshali | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0144710 | biography | Saul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini | 1990 | – |
| A-0065015 | article | Grade 4 - Term 1: Local History | 26 May 2011 | – |
| E-0094046 | event | Renowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria | 7 Nov 2012 | ✓ |
| E-0098379 | event | South African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban. | 30 Sep 2014 | ✓ |
| B-0068487 | biography | General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
BiographyJohn Thomas Baines
SA Painter John Thomas Baines was born on 27 November 1820 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England (often reffered to as Thomas Baines). His father was a master…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and his…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland. At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her father was a banker and her mother a…
BiographyBarney Simon
Barney Simon, South African theatre director (born April 13, 1932, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
… after encouraging her students to write poetry and other writings, critiquing what they saw to be wrong in their …
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… apartheid regime in 1990 as can be seen from some of his writings: ANC's Constitutional Guidelines: Recipe for …
BiographyMngqingo Pikani
At a 1953 meeting in Lusikisiki, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] betterment and the Bantu Authorities (BA) were rejected in the presence of the Paramount…
BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and Johannesburg Girls High…
Phyllis Altman
Phyllis Altman was born on 25 September 1919. She went to Jeppe High School for Girls. As her mother could not afford university fees she accepted a loan from…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… I encountered Ruth First for the first time in her writings, specifically her article The Gold of Migrant Labor, …
BiographyAbraham Mogale
On 27 February 1958, banishment orders were made out for three key Bahurutshe figures - Abraham Mogale, Kenneth Mosenyi and David Moiloa. Abraham Mogale was…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… Mqhayi, Abantu Besizwe – Historical and biographical writings, 1902-1944 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, … Mqhayi, Abantu Besizwe – Historical and…
Esmé Berman
Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and…
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
Dr Arthur David (Kin) Bensusan was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College,…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
Jordan Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in Ladysmith, he entered…
BiographyCarol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… laws [xi] [xii] , as evidenced in one of his journalistic writings Nude Pass Parade. He described a human being going … given about Themba’s marital life. A …
BiographyBuchi Emecheta
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the Nigerian city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice …
BiographyDorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but received private…
BiographyBasil Paul Petersen February
Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around several times, living in places like Elsies River,…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
Sibusiso Mashinini was born to Johannes and Catherine. Unlike his brothers and sisters, he was very quiet and more helpful at home. He was remarkably…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 1: Local History
… sources, namely through the use of pictures, research and writings, stories, interviews and objects. The local area …
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… and then taught at US and Nigerian universities. Achebe's writings from this period reflect his deep personal … found the influential literary magazine Okike…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… detained in 1977, the same year as Steve Biko. He used his writings to speak out against the injustice of apartheid. He …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…