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| B-0064905 | biography | Mannie Manim | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0064903 | biography | Enoch Mgijima | 1868-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
| B-0008472 | biography | Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) | 1935-2008 | – |
| B-0008036 | biography | James Mata Dwane | 1848-1916 | ✓ |
| B-0007860 | biography | Molly Blackburn | 1930-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008339 | biography | Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski | 1953-1989 | – |
| B-0007955 | biography | Ernest Cole | 1940-1990 | – |
| B-0093590 | biography | Ellen Lambert | 1934-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008153 | biography | Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse | 1927-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008080 | biography | Pierre Jacy Fourie | 1943-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0068069 | biography | Dr Silas Modiri Molema | 1891-1965 | – |
| 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 | – |
| B-0007873 | biography | Marutle Flag Boshielo | 1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008371 | biography | Princess Magogo | 1900-1984 | – |
| B-0008210 | biography | John David Rheinallt Jones | 1884-1953 | ✓ |
| B-0122768 | biography | Nyiko Floyd Shivambu | 1983 | ✓ |
| B-0121589 | biography | Mary Sibande | 1982 | – |
| B-0007776 | biography | James E. Kwegyir Aggrey | 1875-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008932 | biography | Benjamin S. Rajuili | 1915 | – |
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
… the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1940s and served in the ANC … to pursue his studies through evening…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and … is like a bow which has a string bound down to…
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal…
BiographyNyiko Floyd Shivambu
… in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg , where he obtained a … Studies at the same university. In his…
BiographyMary Sibande
… in Johannesburg - is interested primarily in questions of the body and how to reclaim the black female body in … a sculptural figure who traverses the…
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
… James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he…
BiographyBenjamin S. Rajuili
… Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare, … a B.A…