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| B-0008578 | biography | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka | 1955 | ✓ |
| B-0008398 | biography | Romeo Zamani Makhanya | 1959 | – |
| B-0067925 | biography | Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle | 1870-1947 | ✓ |
| B-0097180 | biography | Keorapetse William Kgositsile | 1938-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0080664 | biography | Mme Makwena Matlala | – | ✓ |
| B-0068165 | biography | Topsy Madaka | 1954-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0086255 | biography | Harry Snitcher | 1911-1999 | – |
| B-0009025 | biography | Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0068654 | biography | Jan van Riebeeck | 1619-1677 | ✓ |
| B-0008195 | biography | Dr. Leander Starr Jameson | 1853-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0007939 | biography | Frank Chikane | 1951 | – |
| B-0095156 | biography | Ethel Walt | 1925-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0067961 | biography | Johnson Phillip Mlambo | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008136 | biography | Harry Themba Gwala | 1920-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0080449 | biography | Blanche la Guma | 1927-2023 | ✓ |
| E-0149060 | event | South African man sets record for world's deepest dive | 22 Aug 2019 | – |
| B-0007999 | biography | Christiaan Rudolf De Wet | 1854-1922 | ✓ |
| B-0064845 | biography | Chris Hani | 1942-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0008292 | biography | James la Guma | 1894-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0008554 | biography | Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho | – | – |
| B-0008358 | biography | Samora Machel | 1933-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0080454 | biography | Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0008001 | biography | Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo | 1943-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0095931 | biography | Chris McGregor | 1936-1990 | – |
| B-0070067 | biography | Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira | 1931-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008865 | biography | Biddy Partridge | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008897 | biography | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje | 1876-1932 | – |
| B-0008636 | biography | Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley | 1946-2006 | – |
| B-0099507 | biography | Virgile Joseph Bonhomme | 1944 | ✓ |
BiographyPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was born on 3rd November 1955 in Claremont, Durban in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She matriculated from Ohlange High School in Inanda and…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle was born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where Sotho…
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High School. Influenced…
Mme Makwena Matlala
The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal (now Polokwane,…
BiographyTopsy Madaka
Topsy Madaka was born in Gratten, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed away in 1990. In…
BiographyHarry Snitcher
Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924,…
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…
BiographyJan van Riebeeck
Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (Jan van Riebeeck) was born on 21 April 1619 in Culemborg, Netherlands to a surgeon. He spent his youth in Schiedam,…
BiographyDr. Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his parents moved to London, he went to school at Goldolphin in…
BiographyFrank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM)…
BiographyEthel Walt
Ethel Walt was born on 22 November 1925 in Bothaville in the then Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Her family relocated to Yeoville, Johannesburg,…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
Johnson Mlambo was born in Johannesburg on 22 February 1940. He did his secondary school education at Kilnerton. After completing his studies, he worked at…
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…
EventSouth African man sets record for world's deepest dive
South African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind's deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes'318.25m plunge beat the record…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
Christiaan de Wet was born at Leeuwkop near Smithfield, Orange Free State, on 7 October 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping…
BiographyChris Hani
Thembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the fifth of the six children of…
BiographyJames la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and political activist,…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographySamora Machel
Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. Machel…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac…
BiographyChris McGregor
Christopher 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…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who belonged to the Setswana…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley,…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme was born in Durban on 15 March 1944 and his parents were Patricia and Francoise Virgile Bonhomme.He attended St Augustine’s Junior…