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27,910 records
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| B-0007986 | biography | Johannes (Jan) de Klerk | 1903-1979 | – |
| B-0008887 | biography | Jacob Hendrik Pierneef | 1886-1957 | – |
| B-0009199 | biography | Leonora van den Heever | 1926 | ✓ |
| B-0007999 | biography | Christiaan Rudolf De Wet | 1854-1922 | ✓ |
| B-0007869 | biography | Maggie Bopalamo | 1939 | – |
| B-0007987 | biography | Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey | 1847-1914 | – |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
| B-0064905 | biography | Mannie Manim | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0007860 | biography | Molly Blackburn | 1930-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008472 | biography | Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) | 1935-2008 | – |
| B-0008036 | biography | James Mata Dwane | 1848-1916 | ✓ |
| B-0008597 | biography | Santu Mofokeng | 1956-2020 | – |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0093590 | biography | Ellen Lambert | 1934-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0007955 | biography | Ernest Cole | 1940-1990 | – |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008339 | biography | Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski | 1953-1989 | – |
| B-0008153 | biography | Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse | 1927-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0068069 | biography | Dr Silas Modiri Molema | 1891-1965 | – |
| B-0008080 | biography | Pierre Jacy Fourie | 1943-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0008853 | biography | John O’ Malley | 1922-2005 | – |
| B-0009120 | biography | Adelaide Frances Tambo | 1929-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0065504 | biography | Nöel Robb | 1913-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007770 | biography | Raymond Ackerman | 1931 | – |
| B-0007775 | biography | Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett | 1953-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008772 | biography | Lauretta Ngcobo | 1931-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0068251 | biography | Dr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe | 1919-1976 | – |
BiographyJohannes (Jan) de Klerk
… born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De … student politics. From 1925 to 1926…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef … experience brought Pierneef into contact…
Leonora van den Heever
… went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the normaalkollege in … Brink, and began her LLB part-time…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble … the way she served time in prison, following…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van Rooyen). He was born near Winburg on 22 October 1847. After the Battle…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve … , she was involved in political…
BiographyMannie Manim
… He worked for two years as a technical director of the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg when it opened, then … some years, eventually joining the Performing…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
… Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His father, … on to Lovedale. As a result he became a…
BiographyMolly Blackburn
… Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in Port…
BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
… Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei . After the death of his first…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
… Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong personality. In 1894-1895 he was … Dwane and his family moved to…
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … experiences with photography were as a teen when…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the … be with her husband, Edwin…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now ……
BiographyEllen Lambert
… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . … She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of…
BiographyErnest Cole
… went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of these laws Cole was…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
… was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, Todd, was a … had an all-black cast. King Kong helped…
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski…
BiographyRev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse
… 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles William Hendrickse, both school … three decades, rising…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
… in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief…
BiographyPierre Jacy Fourie
… a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. He grew … Martin, who earned but a meager income,…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
… after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… six years with Daily News he became chief subeditor of The Northern Newspaper , which was serving the Copper … Ndola, Zambia. Five years later he became…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
… London. Adelaide Tambo’s political life started at the age of 10 after a raid by the police, following an uprising in … entrenching apartheid, it became a…
BiographyNöel Robb
… 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife, … in the First World War and was held as a…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human and Rousseau. … re-invented his father's industry…
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
… Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, … and certificates. In 1971 he enrolled…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
… (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a … work was only published in the 80s and 90s…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
… James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s,…