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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0096010 | biography | Schalk Burger | 1852-1918 | ✓ |
| B-0068219 | biography | Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho | 1931-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0074109 | biography | Eulalie Doreen Stott | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0068221 | biography | Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha | 1879-1958 | ✓ |
| B-0073091 | biography | Vuyani Mabaxa | 1967-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0068220 | biography | James Madhlope Phillips | 1919-1987 | – |
| B-0007920 | biography | Sarah Carneson | 1916-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0007766 | biography | Abraham Faure | 1795-1875 | – |
| B-0008928 | biography | Andries Raditsela | 1956-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0099532 | biography | Portia Modise | 1983 | ✓ |
| B-0009166 | biography | Stephen Vukile Tshwete | 1938-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0008704 | biography | Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0099507 | biography | Virgile Joseph Bonhomme | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0095356 | biography | Douglas Chadwick Thompson | 1905-1985 | – |
| B-0067925 | biography | Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle | 1870-1947 | ✓ |
| B-0095733 | biography | Professor Bernard Magubane | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0068654 | biography | Jan van Riebeeck | 1619-1677 | ✓ |
| B-0008313 | biography | Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota | 1948-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008711 | biography | Andrew Murray | 1828-1917 | – |
| B-0084115 | biography | Dr. Neville Edward Alexander | 1936-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008620 | biography | Popo Molefe | 1952 | – |
| B-0122581 | biography | Nokukhanya Luthuli | 1904-1996 | – |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0007962 | biography | Harold Cressy | 1889-1916 | – |
| B-0008788 | biography | Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla | 1936-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0095931 | biography | Chris McGregor | 1936-1990 | – |
| B-0009089 | biography | Robert Sobukwe | 1924-1978 | ✓ |
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…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
… Secondary School in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the City Council, working in…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
… Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was … later and Eulalie remained with her…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
… as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district of Transkei . Ma Mbeki’s family, the…
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
… View the Ndabezitha Genealogical Tree Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha, the son of Dukuza, was born on 19 July 1879 at the Noodsberg Mission Station in the…
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
… up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s, he was one of many…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… and this had negative socio-economic repercussions for the family. The young Phillips was forced to work as a waiter and garden … for his education at…
BiographySarah Carneson
… Russia. Zelic Rubin worked as a tailor and, unusually for the time, employed Coloured and Africans along with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in the…
BiographyAbraham Faure
… born on 29 August 1795 in Stellenbosch. Faure was one of the leading personalities of his tune in church and intellectual circles at the Cape. As a preacher…
BiographyAndries Raditsela
… deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (CWIU), an affiliate of the Federation of South African Trade…
BiographyPortia Modise
… Province). Modise chose football at a young age over the more popular girls’ choice of netball. She started playing soccer at the age of seven. She grew up…
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
… outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East … Both of Tshwete’s parents were…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are now both … did his mother who sold home…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
… College where he completed Standard Six (Grade Eight). At the age of 15 he became an apprentice upholsterer at a … business, where he remained for 14 years…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
… Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and moved to Pretoria where … left school and became an iron moulding…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
… in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where Sotho and Nguni languages were spoken. He was…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a white-owned farm in the Colenso district of KwaZulu-Natal. His father…
BiographyJan van Riebeeck
… with whom he had eight children. Jan van Riebeeck joined the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische … surgeon on a voyage to Batavia (today known…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… on 13 August 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. Most of Lekota’s schooling was … his schooling just a few years earlier…
BiographyAndrew Murray
… Andrew Murray was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to … until 1845 when he graduated with a Masters…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a … teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in the rural…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
… Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority. Gordimer was…
BiographyPopo Molefe
… When growing up, Molefe used to visit his mother in the white suburb where she worked, and remembers being harassed by the white children in the area. He…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… Luthuli, maiden name Bhengu, (also known as MaBhengu) was the wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli . Although she never … admiration for her and gratitude for…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now…
BiographyHarold Cressy
… 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman Catholic Mission School provided Cressy's…
BiographyJoseph (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. Both parents were originally…
BiographyChris McGregor
… McGregor was born on 24 December 1936 in Somerset West in the Western Cape . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where…
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. His father worked as … post. He then went back to high…