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| B-0084115 | biography | Dr. Neville Edward Alexander | 1936-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0068316 | biography | George Gangen Ponnen | 1913-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0009265 | biography | Shaka Zulu | 1787-1828 | ✓ |
| B-0007945 | biography | Peter Clarke | 1929-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0073822 | biography | Hemant Kumar Waghmarae | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0008735 | biography | Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo | 1935-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0098660 | biography | Patrice Émery Lumumba | 1925-1961 | – |
| B-0008357 | biography | Graça Simbine Machel | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0067421 | biography | Chief Dingiswayo | 1770 | – |
| B-0123390 | biography | Gordon Sprigg | 1830-1913 | ✓ |
| B-0068173 | biography | Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker | 1910-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0084446 | biography | Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo | 1903-1956 | ✓ |
| B-0084103 | biography | Dr. Abu Baker Asvat | 1943-1989 | ✓ |
| A-0068035 | article | African National Congress Timeline 1950-1959 | 31 Aug 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0068388 | biography | Edward “Eddie” Roux | 1903-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0008442 | biography | Chief Maqoma | – | – |
| B-0008356 | biography | Edward Clark Churchill Mace | 1863-1928 | – |
| B-0008347 | biography | Louis Luyt | 1932-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008082 | biography | Leo Rbc Francois | 1870-1938 | – |
| B-0008027 | biography | Patrick Baker Duncan | 1918-1967 | ✓ |
| R-0093387 | archive | Message from the President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Start of the 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, 25 November 2003 | 6 Sep 2012 | – |
| B-0075601 | biography | Bathandwa Ndondo | 1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068942 | biography | Ahmed Timol | 1941-1971 | ✓ |
| B-0084128 | biography | Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0008561 | biography | Alfred Milner | 1854-1925 | ✓ |
| B-0125265 | biography | Julius Nyerere | 1922-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0064906 | biography | Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri | 1947-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008427 | biography | Joseph Manana | 1964 | – |
| B-0008775 | biography | Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka | 1954 | ✓ |
| B-0008928 | biography | Andries Raditsela | 1956-1985 | ✓ |
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father Ponnen, born in…
BiographyShaka Zulu
Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the…
BiographyPeter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and Dockyard handyman…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. …
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 March 1935…
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…
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 rule. Little…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
Early Life John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… during a session of the United Nation Organisations (UNO). February: The ANC National Executive appoints its …
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
Edward Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where his father…
BiographyChief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King…
BiographyEdward Clark Churchill Mace
Edward Clark Churchill Mace was born in Leicester, England, 1863. He emigrated to Australia when he was eighteen and made a fortune from mining. Rendered…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…
BiographyLeo Rbc Francois
Leo Francois Rbc was born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role in opposition politics for over a decade, attracting notice from the…
Message from the President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Start of the 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, 25 November 2003
Bathandwa Ndondo
As a young child, Ndondo’s maternal grandmother raised himwhile his mother, Lulama Sidumo (nee Ndondo),worked. Following the death of his grandmother, his…
BiographyAhmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyJulius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere was born on the 13th of April 1922 in Butiama village, next to Lake Victoria, in Tanganyika (name given to the British colony in Tanzania’s…
BiographyRaymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
Raymond Chikapa (Ray) Phiri was born in 1947 in Nelspruit (present-day Mbombela) in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He grew up with a passion for music,…
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
BiographyBulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka
Bulelani Ngcuka was born on 2 May 1954 in Middledrift, Eastern Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile…
BiographyAndries Raditsela
In 1982, Raditsela became deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (CWIU), an affiliate of the Federation…