Biographies
459 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0149513 | biography | Audrey Coleman | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0150190 | biography | Helen Newton Thompson | – | ✓ |
| B-0150196 | biography | Stella Nyanzi | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0150420 | biography | Rebecca Lan | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0095354 | biography | Feziwe Bookholane | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0095281 | biography | Veerammal Naidoo | – | ✓ |
| B-0100311 | biography | Maggie Smith | 1930-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0068153 | biography | Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar | 1914 | – |
| B-0150463 | biography | Mary Matilda Brown | 1847-1935 | ✓ |
| B-0009237 | biography | Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood | 1874-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0009231 | biography | Maria Wilman | 1867-1957 | ✓ |
| B-0009219 | biography | Trineke Weijdema | – | – |
| B-0009200 | biography | Jean van der Poel | 1904-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0009083 | biography | Charlene Smith | – | – |
| B-0008988 | biography | Magdalena Gertruide Sauer | 1890-1983 | ✓ |
Audrey Coleman
Audrey Coleman was born in 1933. When she was twenty years old she married businessman Max Coleman. They had four sons, and became active…
Helen Newton Thompson
Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a…
Stella Nyanzi
Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of…
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in…
Feziwe Bookholane
Feziwe Bookholane was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her…
Veerammal Naidoo
Veerammal Naidoo, wife of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a…
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in…
Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar
Valiamina Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of Gandhi’s Satyagraha in 1913. On 29 October Mudaliar…
Mary Matilda Brown
Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform…
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown,…
Maria Wilman
Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931,…
Trineke Weijdema
In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle…
Jean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape…
Charlene Smith
A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto uprising the dead…
Magdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly…