Biographies
10,764 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ |
| B-0096277 | biography | Helen Kies | 1926-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0096200 | biography | Arthur David Bensusan | 1921-2007 | – |
| B-0096198 | biography | Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu | 1934-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0095947 | biography | Wonga Welile Bottoman | 1961 | – |
| B-0095734 | biography | Sipo Elijah Mzimela | 1935-2013 | – |
| B-0095599 | biography | Shirley Gunn | 1955 | ✓ |
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…
Helen Kies
Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape. Despite a very poor childhood, her father ensured that…
Arthur David Bensusan
Dr Arthur David (Kin) Bensusan was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's…
Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu
Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu was born on 8 November 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the…
Wonga Welile Bottoman
Sipo Elijah Mzimela
Sipo Elijah Mzimela was born on 19 June 1935, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria Mzimela. The entire family was…
Shirley Gunn
Gunn enrolled for a degree in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her Honors degree. While studying for her…