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| B-0008005 | biography | Justice John Mowbray Didcott | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0068295 | biography | Alfred Baphetuxolo Nzo | 1925-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0096457 | biography | Graeme Pollock | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0071696 | biography | Joseph Johannes Marks | 1936-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0085151 | biography | Matlakana Philemon Tefu | 1940-2012 | – |
| B-0093911 | biography | Kwena Matlala | 1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008491 | biography | Florence Matomela | 1910-1969 | ✓ |
| B-0007986 | biography | Johannes (Jan) de Klerk | 1903-1979 | – |
| B-0064867 | biography | Paul Shipokosa Mashatile | 1961 | – |
| B-0067969 | biography | Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana | 1899-1995 | – |
| B-0125868 | biography | Ephraim Chaka | 1924-1960 | ✓ |
| B-0009091 | biography | Janet Burnside Soga | 1827-1903 | ✓ |
| B-0008142 | biography | Michael Alan Harmel | 1915-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0095164 | biography | Anne-Marie Wolpe | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0068430 | biography | King Sekhukhune | 1814-1882 | ✓ |
| B-0121659 | biography | Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo | 1936-1988 | – |
| B-0068679 | biography | Matsobane Morris Matsemela | 1931 | ✓ |
| B-0009054 | biography | Annie Silinga | 1910-1984 | – |
| B-0008743 | biography | Hamilton Naki | 1930-2005 | – |
| B-0125869 | biography | Jessie Yasmin Duarte | 1953-2022 | ✓ |
| B-0009097 | biography | Enoch Mankayi Sontonga | 1873-1905 | ✓ |
| B-0064882 | biography | Michael Kitso Dingake | 1928 | ✓ |
| B-0094484 | biography | David Hemson | 1945-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0008010 | biography | Stephen J.C. Dlamini | 1913-1994 | ✓ |
| B-0007793 | biography | Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein | 1921 | ✓ |
| B-0073820 | biography | Phila Portia Ndwandwe | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0074124 | biography | Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0123670 | biography | Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy | 1947 | – |
| B-0008012 | biography | Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini | 1944-2009 | ✓ |
BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
John Mowbray Didcott was born on 14 August 1931, Durban, Natal. After matriculating at Hilton College, outside Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…
BiographyGraeme Pollock
Robert Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the…
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…
BiographyKwena Matlala
Kwena Matlala, born in 1920, was the first daughter of Chief Sekgwari Matlala and Mme Makwena Matlala. She married Nelson Ngakana Moabelo, the ntona of…
BiographyFlorence Matomela
Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx control regulations…
BiographyJohannes (Jan) de Klerk
Johannes de Klerk was born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De Klerk went to…
BiographyPaul Shipokosa Mashatile
Paul Mashatile was born on 21 October 1961 in Geraldsville, Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation struggle from his student…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time…
BiographyEphraim Chaka
Ephraim Chaka was born in 1924. His family came from Ladybrand, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He was married to Mirriam Chaka and together…
Janet Burnside Soga
Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when…
BiographyMatsobane Morris Matsemela
Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started working at his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady…
Annie Silinga
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…
BiographyHamilton Naki
Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in 1930. His family was poor and after completing primary school he left for Cape…
BiographyJessie Yasmin Duarte
Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Julie and Ebrahim Dangor. She…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe…
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). He attended the Bobonong Primary School…
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
Stephen Dlamini was born in 30 November 1913 in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal). As a factory worker, Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks,…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
Phila Portia Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on the 2 April 1965, at Charteston Location, Nigel. She completed her junior primary education at the Jabavu East Community…
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
Guru Kistnasamy was born on 28 December 1947 in Felixton, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father, Thaniachallam Kistnasamy Naicker, worked as a…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
Chris Dlamini was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting factory…