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| 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-0008478 | biography | Dorothy Masuka | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0008720 | biography | Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge | 1942-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0007985 | biography | Frederik Willem de Klerk | 1936-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0068388 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Roux | 1903-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| 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-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| 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 | – |
| B-0008601 | biography | Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba | 1933 | – |
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0068678 | biography | Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana | 1919-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0067964 | biography | Ida Fiyo Mntwana | 1903-1960 | – |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0125539 | biography | Jeremy Vearey | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008149 | biography | Bessie Amelia Head | 1937-1986 | ✓ |
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…
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…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… Jan de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de Klerk, a political analyst and one…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a … did not work but was actively involved in the…
BiographyHelene Marie Passtoors
… on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in the struggles of people other than her own for the cause of peace, freedom equality and justice. At the time of her…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
… during which time she developed a strong awareness of the link between the social system and health problems in … African National Congress (ANC) in 1952 at…
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
… and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s demonstrations…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now … a youth club known as De-Olympia in the…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… ‘informal’ settlement in a large family, with both sets of families.His grandfather and father did all the slaughtering of animals in the area, a skill which…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… mother, Bessie Amelia Emery, came from a wealthy family of Scottish descent. No information on her father exists … a Catholic church and school and remained…