Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0099532 | biography | Portia Modise | 1983 | ✓ |
| B-0099507 | biography | Virgile Joseph Bonhomme | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0099380 | biography | John Moshoeu | – | ✓ |
| B-0098099 | biography | Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi | 1959-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0097350 | biography | Dirk Johannes Coetzee | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0097019 | biography | Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo | 1967 | ✓ |
| B-0096633 | biography | Mthuli ka Shezi | 1947-1972 | – |
| B-0096554 | biography | Ahmed Gora Ebrahim | 1936-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0096510 | biography | Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena | 1931-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0096423 | biography | Jonathan Shapiro | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0096410 | biography | Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo | 1920-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0096409 | biography | Kaizer Motaung | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0096365 | biography | Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex' | 1931-2018 | ✓ |
Portia Modise
Portia "Bashin" Modise was born on 20 June 1983 in White City Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Modise chose football at a young…
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…
John Moshoeu
John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’…
Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi was born on 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu (Western Cape). She was the Deputy President of the African National…
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In…
Dirk Johannes Coetzee
Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac…
Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo
Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo also known as “16 Valve” was born in Soweto, Johannesburg on 26 June 1967. His father Eliakim “Pro” Khumalo,…
Mthuli ka Shezi
Mthuli ka Shezi was a leading Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) intellectual. He was also a playwright and a cultural activist. He was…
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim was born in Durban on 29 May 1936. Ebrahim cut his political teeth in Trotskyite circles while studying at Sastri…
Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
Dr Oshadi Mangena was born in a toilet on 12 June 1931 when her father’s employer refused to allow her mother to wait for an ambulance…
Vesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father…
Jonathan Shapiro
Born in Cape Town in 1958 and also known as Zapiro. Could not imagine a career in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape…
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein…
Kaizer Motaung
Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at…
Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his…