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| B-0009238 | biography | Dorothy Joan Wright | 1911-1991 | – |
| B-0098782 | biography | Robert Moffat | – | ✓ |
| B-0079873 | biography | Dorothy Hazel Alexander | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0007887 | biography | André Philippus Brink | 1935-2015 | – |
| B-0123671 | biography | Siva Pillay | – | ✓ |
| B-0064868 | biography | Lutchmee Marie | 1923 | – |
| B-0009209 | biography | Adriaan Vlok | 1937 | – |
| B-0097180 | biography | Keorapetse William Kgositsile | 1938-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0080909 | biography | Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana | 1953 | – |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0095161 | biography | Violet Weinberg | – | ✓ |
| B-0123687 | biography | Mattheus Uys Krige | 1910-1987 | – |
| B-0008661 | biography | Keable Mote | – | – |
| B-0008748 | biography | Suliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie | 1918-1979 | – |
| B-0068562 | biography | Nehemiah Tile | 1885 | – |
| B-0009053 | biography | A. J. Sililo | – | – |
| B-0121596 | biography | Andries Ntsenyeho | 2012 | – |
| B-0121618 | biography | Janeveke Raphael Liau | 2012 | – |
| B-0121627 | biography | Thobisile Zibambele | 2012 | – |
| B-0079921 | biography | Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia | 1915 | – |
| B-0008101 | biography | Allerley Glossop | 1870-1955 | – |
| B-0080693 | biography | Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet | 1937-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007844 | biography | Ian Berry | 1934-2013 | – |
| B-0099280 | biography | Mandla Langa | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008382 | biography | Yunus Ismail Mahomed | 1950-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008257 | biography | Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo | 1914-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0068169 | biography | Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo | 1917-1957 | – |
| B-0008018 | biography | Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0122343 | biography | Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens | 1926-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0008055 | biography | Christopher Nceba Faku | 1956 | ✓ |
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
Dorothy Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth…
BiographyRobert Moffat
Robert Moffat was born on 21 December 1795 in Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were not wealthy. He was father-in-law to the missionary-explorer,…
Dorothy Hazel Alexander
Dorothy Alexander was born on 7 August 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, the third of six children[1]. One of her siblings was Neville Alexander…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of…
Siva Pillay
Siva Pillay was a B.Sc. student at university in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s…
BiographyLutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic worker, washing…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange…
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High School. Influenced…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
BiographyNorman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most dynamic literary…
BiographyKeable Mote
Keable Mote was born in 1898 in Leribe, Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers'…
BiographySuliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie
Born in 1918, he was a businessman in Evaton and played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for participation…
BiographyNehemiah Tile
Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal education at Boloto. He…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban, and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…
BiographyAndries Ntsenyeho
Andries Ntsenyeho (42) was from Sasolburg in the Free State. He had worked for Lonmin for a year and was one of the leaders of the strike. On 16 August 2012…
BiographyJaneveke Raphael Liau
Janeveke Raphael Liau (47) was from Likolobeng Ha Monyane, Maseru in Lesotho. He started working for Lonmin in 2003. On 16 August 2012 Janeveke was killed at…
BiographyThobisile Zibambele
Thobisile Zibambele (39) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2009. On 16 August 2012 Thobisile was killed at scene 1…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…
BiographyAllerley Glossop
Allerley Glossop was born in Twickenham, England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She farmed…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyIan Berry
Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams,…
BiographyMandla Langa
Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, or KwaDukuza, a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province. He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
Yunus Ismail Mahomed was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up in Jeppe, attending…
BiographyNnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho. She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930…
BiographyHenry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
Henry Nxumalo was born in 1917 at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the…
BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and Johannesburg Girls High…
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…
BiographyChristopher Nceba Faku
Christopher Nceba Faku was born on 11 February 1956 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. Faku received his education at the Cowan High School and Lovedale College…