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| B-0068312 | biography | Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje | 1917-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0009252 | biography | Max Yergan | 1893-1975 | – |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0068388 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Roux | 1903-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0074796 | biography | Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu | 1954 | ✓ |
| 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-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0067964 | biography | Ida Fiyo Mntwana | 1903-1960 | – |
| B-0068677 | biography | Helene Marie Passtoors | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0068678 | biography | Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana | 1919-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0125539 | biography | Jeremy Vearey | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0080096 | biography | Ruth Gosschalk | 1929-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0093134 | biography | Nana Henrietta Moabi | 1938 | – |
| B-0007805 | biography | Baden Powell | 1857-1941 | – |
| B-0008186 | biography | Frederick Timpson I’Ons | 1802-1887 | ✓ |
| B-0080047 | biography | Nkosinathi Benson Fihla | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0008285 | biography | Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo | 1879-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008056 | biography | Brenda Nokuzola Fassie | 1964-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0094076 | biography | Evelina de Bruin | 1933-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0008543 | biography | Gideon Mendel | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0009203 | biography | Benedict Wallet Vilakazi | 1906-1947 | ✓ |
| B-0008300 | biography | Maria Laubser | 1886-1973 | – |
| B-0008271 | biography | Susanna Helena Kok | 1911-1985 | ✓ |
Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje
… Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made … minded students in establishing 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…
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…
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…
BiographyVice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu
… in MK camps until 1979 when he was deployed as Chief of Logistics in Luanda, Angola. He later served in ANC Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia as the co…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ruth Gosschalk
… on 27 July 1929 in Muizenburg , Cape Town . She was one of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gosschalk’s mother was a member of…
BiographyNana Henrietta Moabi
… in community programmes and is listed by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa in the United Nations (UN) directory of Non Governmental Organisations …
BiographyBaden Powell
… Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His father died when he was 3 years old … devoted…
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
… on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight children. As a young child, he already…
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
… Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern … groups run mainly by students from the nearby…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo herded…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She … after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
… on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape . In the early days of her life, her parents moved to Upington . They…
BiographyDumile Feni
… he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age of eleven. He then began working for his father, a trader and … Barney Simon. Dumile exhibited…
BiographyGideon Mendel
… on 31st August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic History ……
BiographyBenedict Wallet Vilakazi
… was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the University…
BiographyMaria Laubser
… was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she visited Cape Town and…
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
… in 1928. Kok began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and later at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she obtained her MB ChB in…