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| B-0074125 | biography | Joseph Masobila Mdluli | 1925-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0009119 | biography | Oliver Tambo | 1917-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008936 | biography | Mewa Ramgobin | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0065300 | biography | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | 1918-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008051 | biography | Suliman Moosa Esakjee | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0122314 | biography | Simon van der Stel | 1639-1712 | – |
| B-0007816 | biography | Richard Granville Baloyi | 1897-1962 | ✓ |
| B-0008610 | biography | Yvonne Mokgoro | 1950 | – |
| B-0067164 | biography | Julius Sello Malema | 1981 | ✓ |
| B-0008125 | biography | Sir George Grey | 1812-1917 | – |
| B-0068487 | biography | General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1870-1950 | ✓ |
| B-0125505 | biography | Dr Kwame Nkrumah | 1909-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0064847 | biography | Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger | 1825-1904 | – |
| B-0066513 | biography | King Cetshwayo | 1826-1884 | ✓ |
| B-0008106 | biography | David Goldblatt | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0125321 | biography | Makhanda Nxele | 1780-1820 | ✓ |
| B-0007803 | biography | Ali Bacher | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008244 | biography | Solomon Kerzner | 1935 | – |
| B-0009137 | biography | Richard Victor Selope Thema | 1886-1955 | ✓ |
| B-0068401 | biography | Emil Sachs | 1900-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008298 | biography | Constance Stuart Larrabee | 1914-2000 | – |
| B-0007765 | biography | Dr Abdullah Abdurahman | 1872-1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008546 | biography | John Xavier Merriman | 1841-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0008696 | biography | Richard Msimang | 1884-1933 | ✓ |
| B-0068272 | biography | Philemon Pearce Nokwe | 1927-1978 | – |
| B-0080428 | biography | Rev. Theo Kotze | 1920-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0068163 | biography | Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker | 1920-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0094641 | biography | Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale | 1920-2004 | – |
| B-0123686 | biography | King Sarhili kaHintsa | 1815-1892 | ✓ |
| B-0007855 | biography | Stephen Bantu Biko | 1946-1977 | ✓ |
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
… in 1925 in lngwavuma, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), the only son in the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and … Mdluli earned his…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape, on 27…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… beginnings became a successful farmer. Ramgobin attended the Inanda Government Aided Indian School. In 1949 he attended the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) run…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Childhood in the Eastern Cape Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief councillor to the…
BiographySuliman Moosa Esakjee
… in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its inception. He served as the Joint Secretary of the…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… 1639 to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens. The couple were en route to Mauritius when Maria gave birth to Simon aboard the ship le Cappel. Van…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… and shortly afterwards he and other bus owners founded the Alexandra Bus Owners' Association. The buses travelled regularly between Johannesburg and…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… began his political career at a young age. He joined the Masupatsela (Trailblazers), a movement of the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of nine,…
BiographySir George Grey
… George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region. After attending a Catholic … Assini, Nkrumah went on to train…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
… Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth, Shaka Zulu was wielding a very powerful…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, he was born on 29 November 1930 in the small mining…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political ……
BiographyAli Bacher
… after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali Bacher, the young medical doctor and Transvaal batsman -…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… G. (1999) “Solomon Kerzner” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the Mamabolo tribe who, through early contact with … education when he ran away from school in 1901 and…
BiographyEmil Sachs
… was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs', … Sachs made up his own…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
… spent three years studying abroad. She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde,…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to South Africa … wife in1895, entered public life in…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa…
BiographyRichard Msimang
… Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… Secondary School in Johannesburg. (This was probably the Anglican school situated in Rosettenville, and not the school of the same name at Crown Mines.)…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
… The Reverend Theo Kotze was born at the Heads in Knysna, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 19 … His father, a lawyer, had been gaoled for supporting the…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… a union organiser for sugar workers, and for some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the left-wing newspaper New Age . In the 1940s he was…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to the Wilberforce Native Teacher’s College. He then worked as a … clerk. He married, and settled in Jabavu…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. This was the period in which both the ANC…