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| B-0125809 | biography | Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam | 1935-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0007988 | biography | Patricia De Lille | 1951 | ✓ |
| B-0068419 | biography | Dawood Seedat | 1916-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008545 | biography | Dr. Hans Merensky | 1871-1952 | – |
| B-0008432 | biography | Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi | 1967-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008211 | biography | Peter Jones | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008481 | biography | Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima | 1915-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0008119 | biography | Vera Gow (Adams) | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0068728 | biography | Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen | 1812-1893 | – |
| B-0064865 | biography | Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0094071 | biography | Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels | 1928-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0071685 | biography | Basil Paul Petersen February | 1943-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0080306 | biography | Viola Hashe | 1926-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008720 | biography | Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge | 1942-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0067753 | biography | Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008870 | biography | Malcolm Payne | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0125321 | biography | Makhanda Nxele | 1780-1820 | ✓ |
| B-0122626 | biography | Frank Alexander Landman | 1918-1990 | – |
| B-0008289 | biography | Taubie Kushlick | 1911-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0008244 | biography | Solomon Kerzner | 1935 | – |
| B-0094641 | biography | Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale | 1920-2004 | – |
| A-0064328 | article | General South African History Timeline: 1950s | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| B-0008221 | biography | Elsa Joubert | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008579 | biography | Andrew Mokete Mlangeni | 1925-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0081677 | biography | Motsoko Pheko | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0122374 | biography | Anna De Koningh | 1656-1734 | – |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0095150 | biography | Ivan Toms | 1953-2008 | – |
| B-0120811 | biography | Devikarani Priscilla Jana | 1943-2020 | ✓ |
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew up in very dire…
BiographyPatricia De Lille
Patricia de Lille, a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children…
BiographyDawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and writer, Alexander Merensky. Hans studied geology and mine…
BiographyBuyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community…
BiographyPeter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government introduced…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town. Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the…
BiographyJohannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen
Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen was born in 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near…
BiographyMpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom
Mpumelelo Grootboom, controversial and liberal playwright was born in Meadowlands, Soweto in 1975, were he was raised by his grandparents. He was a year old…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called …
BiographyBasil Paul Petersen February
Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around several times, living in places like Elsies River,…
BiographyViola Hashe
Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) to Wilmot Goso and Nobantu Ntebe…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge was born in KwaZulu-Natal on 29 June 1952. She attended Magog and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
"First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to exert…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
Please note: Silber, G. (1999) “Solomon Kerzner” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… during the session of the United Nation Organisations (UNO). Sonia Bunting joins the Guardian Newspaper after the …
BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyHelen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…
BiographyAndrew Mokete Mlangeni
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of a twin (he has a…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his…
BiographyAnna De Koningh
Anna De Koningh was the daughter of Angela van Bengale. She arrived with Angela from Batavia, but who her father was is unknown. Like her mother, Anna de…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
BiographyIvan Toms
Ivan Toms was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 11 July 1953. He completed his medical degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), to a middle class Indian family.[i] From an early age Jana…