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| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0125201 | biography | Sam Tambani | 1953-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0007820 | biography | Fikile Charles Bam | 1937-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008788 | biography | Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla | 1936-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0096010 | biography | Schalk Burger | 1852-1918 | ✓ |
| B-0007963 | biography | Jeremy Patrick Cronin | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0008238 | biography | Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng | 1919-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0068742 | biography | Cecil Williams | 1906-1979 | – |
| B-0068113 | biography | Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0068743 | biography | Curtis Nkondo | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0125809 | biography | Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007890 | biography | Peter McKenzie Brown | 1924-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0067866 | biography | Justice Gizenga Mpanza | 1937-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008233 | biography | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008052 | biography | Abdool Karrim Essak | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0093589 | biography | Thenjiwe Mtintso | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008230 | biography | Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils | 1936-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0068272 | biography | Philemon Pearce Nokwe | 1927-1978 | – |
| B-0008280 | biography | Krotoa (Eva) | 1643-1674 | ✓ |
| B-0008737 | biography | Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo | 1860-1930 | ✓ |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008652 | biography | Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka | 1911-1963 | – |
| B-0064871 | biography | Suliman “Babla” Saloojee | 1931-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0009155 | biography | Andries Treurnicht | 1921-1993 | – |
| B-0064866 | biography | Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographySam Tambani
Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni Jack…
BiographyFikile Charles Bam
Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the…
BiographyJoseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla
Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla…
BiographySchalk Burger
General Schalk Willem Burger was born on the 6 September 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
Ntwaesele "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a…
BiographyCecil Williams
Cecil Williams was born in Cornwall, England in 1906. Williams whose father was a blacksmith left Cornwall for Johannesburg in 1928. After his arrival, he…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew up in very dire…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
Peter Brown was born in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo game. Despite this,…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
Justice "Gizenga" Mpanza was born on 5 September 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to…
BiographyDorothy 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…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India. He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
Thenjiwe Mtintso, was born on 7 November 1950 in Soweto, Johannesburg where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father…
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited Durban, to visit his…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St Peter's…
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao, a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka was born in Johannesburg and received his early primary education there. His secondary education was at Headltown near Fort Beaufort in…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave…
BiographyAndries Treurnicht
Andries Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Cape Town. He attended Piketberg High School where he matriculated in 1939…
BiographyJeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…