Biographies
183 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0153117 | biography | Colleen Lombard | 1950-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0007922 | biography | Cheryl Carolus | 1959 | ✓ |
| B-0068245 | biography | Lillian Masediba Ngoyi | 1911-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0009229 | biography | Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0150644 | biography | Susan Shabangu | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0150369 | biography | Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0150129 | biography | Mary Butcher Turok | – | ✓ |
| B-0150021 | biography | Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela | 1960-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0149947 | biography | Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka | 1957-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0149905 | biography | Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen | 1966-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0149832 | biography | Robert Anthony Basil Waterwitch | 1969-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0149719 | biography | Coline Williams | 1967-1989 | ✓ |
Colleen Lombard
Colleen Lombard (previously known as Colleen Rayson), an anti-apartheid activist, former political detainee, and treason trialist, was born…
Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
IntroductionNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely…
Ruth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius…
Cheryl Carolus
Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was employed as a printer’s…
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei…
Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn was born in 1938, in Villageboard, a mixed area that had different nationalities living side by side. She…
Susan Shabangu
Susan Shabangu was born on 28 February 1956. She attended Madibane High School in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). From 1980, she became…
Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu
Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu was born in 1935* in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). His interest in politics was…
Mary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the…
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie…
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary…
Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
Norman Pietersen (also known as Billy Holiday) was born in 1966 in Paarl, Western Cape. In 1982, he was recruited by uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK)…
Robert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats…
Coline Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three…