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| B-0009051 | biography | Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau | 1937-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0123373 | biography | Njinga Ana de Sousa | 1583-1663 | ✓ |
| B-0007862 | biography | Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak | 1945 | – |
| B-0008052 | biography | Abdool Karrim Essak | 1932-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0008948 | biography | Robert M. Resha | 1920-1973 | ✓ |
| B-0097631 | biography | Denis Mayer | 1923-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0068455 | biography | Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin | 1943 | ✓ |
| B-0008679 | biography | King Mpande kaSenzangakhona | 1798-1872 | – |
| B-0008768 | biography | Henry Reed Ngcayiya | 1863-1928 | ✓ |
| B-0067967 | biography | Johannes (Joe) Modise | 1929-2001 | – |
| B-0007902 | biography | Henry Burton | 1866-1935 | ✓ |
| B-0007895 | biography | Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd | 1910-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0007999 | biography | Christiaan Rudolf De Wet | 1854-1922 | ✓ |
| B-0007958 | biography | Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia | 1940-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0008231 | biography | Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada | 1929-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0007987 | biography | Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey | 1847-1914 | – |
| B-0068322 | biography | David Pratt | 1909-1961 | – |
| B-0080342 | biography | Rica Hodgson | 1920-2018 | – |
| B-0007870 | biography | David Wilcox Bopape | 1915-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008292 | biography | James la Guma | 1894-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008130 | biography | Archibald Jacob Gumede | 1914-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0121724 | biography | Jo Ractliffe | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0007878 | biography | Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha | 1932-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0007838 | biography | Peter Becker | 1921-1984 | – |
| B-0067421 | biography | Chief Dingiswayo | 1770 | – |
| B-0008500 | biography | Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews | 1901-1968 | – |
| B-0123390 | biography | Gordon Sprigg | 1830-1913 | ✓ |
| B-0125558 | biography | Gerald Patrick Kearney | 1942-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0008533 | biography | Zanemvula Kizito Mda | 1948 | ✓ |
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
… Nomzamo 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…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is … her conversion to Catholicism and her participation in the slave trade. Angolan nationalist…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… support his family. At fourteen, he became a sexton in the separate Coloured congregation of the local Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sending-Kerk (Dutch ……
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 … and left his family to seek his fortune…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
… school and in his late teens went to work as a miner on the Reef. After several years, he was dismissed as a … Johannesburg around 1940. He later became…
BiographyDenis Mayer
… Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg … a child. Her father was a lecturer in African…
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
… Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. He was a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession after a few years, and became an interpreter in the…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of Miriam and Ezekiel Modise. Modise completed his Junior Certificate at the Fred…
BiographyHenry Burton
… school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He was the son of Henry Francis Burton, a magistrate and civil … He first studied literature and…
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
… Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from England, was in the…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… formal education, spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of…
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… 1940. His grandparents had come to South Africa around the 1880’s. They were part of the second wave of emigrants from India to South Africa. His … had owned…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… he attended Johannesburg Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and the Cachalia brothers, who were leaders of the freedom…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van … He was born near Winburg on 22 October 1847. After the Battle of…
David Pratt
… was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the United Kingdom to Johannesburg, South Africa when Pratt ……
BiographyRica Hodgson
… Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita … He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the…
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…
BiographyJames la Guma
… Province). A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, Arnold, and his wife Jemima. While the…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana … matriculated in 1932 at Lovedale Missionary…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
… Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… principal. Pik as he is affectionately known attended the Hoer Volkskool, Potchefstroom, and was a good all-round … pupil, becoming chairman of debating…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna … his two elder brothers,…
Chief Dingiswayo
… Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand area before Shaka brought them under his … or…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a … voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje , a…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other … office. He became a reporter before moving…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
… at Catholic schools and for some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral … his eldest…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… lawyer. His father was a founding member and later became the President of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in 1947. In the 1960s, while he…