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| B-0008953 | biography | Eschel Mostert Rhoodie | 1933-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0068381 | biography | Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0008474 | biography | Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini | 1957-1990 | – |
| B-0007768 | biography | Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams | 1925-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0067969 | biography | Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana | 1899-1995 | – |
| B-0124819 | biography | Allister Sparks | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0070046 | biography | Winnie Motlalepule Kgware | 1917-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008981 | biography | Anthony Sampson | 1926-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0068319 | biography | Andries Hendrik Potgieter | 1792-1852 | ✓ |
| B-0067462 | biography | Doman | Unknown-1663 | – |
| B-0068453 | biography | David Sibeko | 1938-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008376 | biography | Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane | 1881-1971 | ✓ |
| B-0009068 | biography | Penny Siopis | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0007978 | biography | Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal | 1892-1950 | – |
| B-0068895 | biography | Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu | 1934 | – |
| B-0064876 | biography | John James Issel | 1946-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0122372 | biography | Jan Smiesing | 1697-1734 | – |
| B-0008437 | biography | Trevor Andrew Manuel | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0068475 | biography | Maniben Sita | 1926-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0083813 | biography | Mildred Lesiea | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0008166 | biography | Percy John "Jack" Hodgson | 1910-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0068419 | biography | Dawood Seedat | 1916-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| B-0068000 | biography | Reggie Vandeyar | 1931-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008345 | biography | Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli | 1898-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0068743 | biography | Curtis Nkondo | 1928-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0009024 | biography | George Sewpersadh | 1936 | – |
| B-0008229 | biography | Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0008856 | biography | Sir Ernest Oppenheimer | 1880 | – |
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
… Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape . Kondlo was politically active from an … days at Fort Hare, Alice,…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months. The wife of the local reverend, Dominee Lukas van der Merwe, gave her … Africa…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl , in the Western Cape . She was born into a large family of 8 … became ill with tuberculosis. When a…
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 … political organiser and…
BiographyAllister Sparks
… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … at Queen’s College in Queenstown and…
BiographyWinnie Motlalepule Kgware
… Winnie Motlalepule Kgware was born in Thaba Nchu in the Free State on the 27th of October in 1917. A teacher by profession, and resident at the University…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his … like Nadine Gordimer. On his return to Britain he…
BiographyAndries Hendrik Potgieter
… Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the Graaff Reinet district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of …
BiographyDoman
… to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the capacity of the Dutch to reduce indigenous people to positions of … of European colonisation…
BiographyDavid Sibeko
… Sophiatown, Johannesburg . He received his schooling at the St Cyprian's Anglican School in Sophiatown, and the Johannesburg Bantu High School (sometimes…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… interpreter. In 1908 he began theological training at the Lessyton Theological school near Queenstown. He was … politically active. In 1919 he was elected as…
BiographyPenny Siopis
… installations. Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal was the son of the Jariam Singh, a former President of the Transvaal Indian Association. He received his early …
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… The 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…
BiographyJohn James Issel
… John James Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town . At a tender age, he worked on a vineyard, cleaning…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale…
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… Cape Town. His father, Abraham Manuel, worked for the Cape Town City Council.Manuel attended Harold Cressy High … position in 1981 to volunteer as a…
BiographyManiben Sita
… Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, ( Marabastad , Pretoria ) in Transvaal … and been greatly influenced by Mahatma Gandhi ,…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… Langa , Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape ), the only official area for African accommodation in Cape Town in the 1930s. She grew up in the…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… ‘Jack’ Hodgson born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) … died in a mine accident. Having to…
BiographyDawood Seedat
… Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader … Moosa. After qualifying as a bookkeeper, Seedat entered the…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… 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 mother,…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… Africa to seek fortune. His parents travelled throughout the then Transvaal , moving from Hammanskraal, Heidelberg, … where his family of nine members, of…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 1952 until his death in 1967. Chief Luthuli was the…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma Nkondo left Lorenco Marques … and put her two sons through…
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
… to Reservoir Hills as their property was taken over by the then Department of Community Development. He first … until Standard Three (Grade 5). After this he…
BiographyRonald (Ronnie) Kasrils
… immigrants from Latvia and Lithuania, who had fled from the Czarist pogroms at the end of the 19th century. His father was a factory salesman and his ……
BiographySir Ernest Oppenheimer
… was born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer … London. His efforts impressed his…