Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0009031 | biography | Dorothy Shanley | 1920-2001 | – |
| B-0009025 | biography | Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0009021 | biography | Dulcie Evonne September | 1935-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0008970 | biography | Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana | 1858-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008969 | biography | Harold Rubin | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0008927 | biography | Betty Radford | – | – |
| B-0008926 | biography | Lucas Radebe | 1969 | ✓ |
| B-0008914 | biography | Ronald “Ron” Press | 1929-2009 | – |
| B-0008902 | biography | John Nyathi Pokela | 1922-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008894 | biography | Vella Pillay | – | – |
| B-0008889 | biography | Hector Pieterson | 1963-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008846 | biography | Albert Nzula | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008841 | biography | Siphiwe Nyanda | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008833 | biography | Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana | 1936 | ✓ |
Dorothy Shanley
Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest…
Mosima 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…
Dulcie Evonne September
Dulcie Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was born on the 20th August 1935 in Royal rd, Maitland…
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree…
Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a…
Harold Rubin
Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting…
Betty Radford
Betty Radford was arrested after the 4 August 1946 miner’s strike, together with, among others, WH Andrews and Moses Kotane. She was the…
Lucas Radebe
Lucas Radebe was born on 12 April 1969 in Diepkloof, Soweto. When he was 15 years old, his parents sent him away to Bophuthatswana to avoid…
Ronald “Ron” Press
Ron Press was born in 1929. His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held…
John Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In…
Vella Pillay
This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his 80th birthday party held on 18th October 2003 at Lauderdale House, Highgate,…
Hector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper…
Albert Nzula
Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in Herschel and at…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for…
Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk,…