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| B-0149401 | biography | Jabulile Nyawose | 1982 | ✓ |
| B-0149289 | biography | Moses Ndlovu | 1944-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0150389 | biography | Selloane Ethel Leisa | 1914-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0007948 | biography | Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee | 1931-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0065035 | biography | Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo | 1947-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007775 | biography | Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett | 1953-1982 | ✓ |
| P-0153019 | place | Cape Columbine Lighthouse | 6 Jul 2025 | ✓ |
| B-0120698 | biography | Mohamed Ismail Dinat | 1937-2015 | – |
| B-0070067 | biography | Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira | 1931-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| B-0008974 | biography | Heidi Saayman | 1970 | – |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0007829 | biography | Christiaan Neethling Barnard | 1922-2001 | ✓ |
| B-0009245 | biography | Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma | 1893-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0099581 | biography | Michael Madimetja Teffo | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0008561 | biography | Alfred Milner | 1854-1925 | ✓ |
| B-0068655 | biography | Frederik van Zyl Slabbert | 1940-2010 | – |
| B-0008239 | biography | Johannes Jane Tane Kekana | 1840-1887 | – |
| B-0007869 | biography | Maggie Bopalamo | 1939 | – |
| B-0149222 | biography | Pumzile Mayapi | 1956 | – |
| B-0086265 | biography | Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias | 1925-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0009017 | biography | Pixley ka Isaka Seme | 1881-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0008495 | biography | Todd Tozama Matshikiza | 1921-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008897 | biography | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje | 1876-1932 | – |
| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0068227 | biography | Reverend Beyers Naudé | 1915 | – |
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
Jabulile Nyawose and her husband Petrus Nyawose worked long hours for Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU), focusing on delivery to members and paying attention…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
Selloane Ethel Leisa was born on 22* February 1914 in Ga-Marishane, Northern Transvaal, (now Limpopo Province). Upon completing her schooling, she moved to…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child with is wife,…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and…
BiographyBusisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo, popularly known as Busi Mhlongo, was born on 28 October 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, and when his…
PlaceCape Columbine Lighthouse
Cape Columbine Lighthouse is situated on a prominent headland +/- 5km from the picturesque fishing Village of Paternoster (“Our Father”), deriving its name…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape, however, there are other…
BiographyHeidi Saayman
Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving school she studied at…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
Early years 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…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham…
BiographyMichael Madimetja Teffo
Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne. The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo…
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and his twin sister were born on 2 March 1940 in Pretoria to Barbara Zacharia Hagen and Petrus Johannes Slabbert. Slabbert attended…
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
Johannes Jane Tane Kekana was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to…
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
Pumzile Mayapi was born on 8 September 1956 in Willowvale, Eastern Cape. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in June 1980 when he was still a student…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942…
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…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who belonged to the Setswana…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his…