Biographies
12 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150896 | biography | Babette Brown | 1931-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0150470 | biography | Eve Hall | 1937-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0095076 | biography | Sylvia Neame | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0074116 | biography | Jean Clarice Middleton | 1928-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0068317 | biography | Vera Ponnen | 1915-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0008735 | biography | Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0008326 | biography | Leon Levy | 1929-2026 | ✓ |
| B-0008230 | biography | Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils | 1936-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008217 | biography | Helen Joseph | 1905-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0008068 | biography | Ruth First | 1925-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0007828 | biography | Yetta Barenblatt | 1913-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0007793 | biography | Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein | 1921 | ✓ |
Babette Brown
A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world, Babette Brown was born in…
Eve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her…
Sylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and…
Jean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the…
Vera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she…
Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Thambi "Naran" Naidoo, was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6…
Leon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from…
Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited…
Helen Joseph
Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Easebourne, United Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She…
Ruth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius…
Yetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to…
Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. …