SAHO global search

1915-1984

Thelma Gutsche

… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…

B-0008135

1959-2024

Tito Mboweni

… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree…

B-0008523

1931-2012

Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson

… 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained … Johannesburg Bar.  A keen soccer…

B-0007935

1939-2022

Francis Wilson

… Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was … Zambia. During this time his father was the…

B-0123540

Richard Goldstone

… born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with … in the most influential courts in the…

B-0008109

1957

Kate O’Regan

… up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980, an LL.M. from the…

B-0008849

1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

… (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. He was the owner of an eating-house in the city, which in due course became a … for black politicians. In 1933 he was a…

B-0068097

1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall … words, she acquired "an…

B-0007917

1897-1962

Richard Granville Baloyi

… Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a taxi owner. In…

B-0007816

1929-2017

Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada

… Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr. Yusuf Dadoo  and the Cachalia brothers, who were leaders of the freedom movement in the Transvaal…

B-0008231

1931-1998

Justice John Mowbray Didcott

… (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in … president from 1952 to 1954. He was also…

B-0008005

1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

… England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, Georgiana…

B-0007835

1953

Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

… Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953  Durban . She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone … She obtained a BA in…

B-0008863

1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later … his undergraduate and Honours degrees at the…

B-0100280

1870-1950

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

… Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in English, and he only entered school at the age of 12, when his elder…

B-0068487

1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal . Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…

B-0008843

1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation…

B-0008455

1961

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

… the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) .  He co-founded the … in 1983 and was elected as…

B-0064867

1929-2026

Leon Levy

… Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, he was educated…

B-0008326

1934

Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu

… was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu.  He attended the local primary … while a pupil at St John…

B-0068895

1952

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

… (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew … Sibasa, Limpopo …

B-0008934

1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the … is appropriate because it is a modern…

B-0008287

1915-1974

Michael Alan Harmel

… Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant … in Marxism-Leninism and deeply devoted to the liberation of all…

B-0008142

1946

Malcolm Payne

… "First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the … more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness of the game." Malcolm Payne…

B-0008870

1909-1972

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

… subsequently earned a teacher's certificate at the Prince of Wales College in 1930. During this period Nkrumah became … Black Lincoln college in Pennsylvania…

B-0125505

1885-1970

Kerr Alexander

… Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. … Street Primary School in Greenock and then, in…

B-0007781

1947

Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer

… Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the … to study for his B Comm and LLB…

B-0008549

1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of British painting and internalised to a high degree the style of Augustus John (1878–1961). The…

B-0008328

1937-2006

Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau

… Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East Pondoland who became the first state…

B-0009051