Biographies
10,764 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150327 | biography | Hettie McCleod | 1922-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0150323 | biography | Mary Margaret Ngalo | 1973 | ✓ |
| B-0150305 | biography | Traci Mackie | – | ✓ |
| B-0150302 | biography | Arthur Nuthall Fula | 1908-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0150280 | biography | Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela | 1953-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0150276 | biography | Winifred Seqwana | 1897-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0150270 | biography | Simon Gqubule | 1928-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150238 | biography | Robert Mokwena (George Sello) | 1952-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0150235 | biography | Nosipho Dastile | 1938-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0150226 | biography | Mary Thipe | 1917-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0150214 | biography | Ruth Naomi Leon | 1945-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0150170 | biography | Lillian Diedericks | 1925 | ✓ |
| B-0150129 | biography | Mary Butcher Turok | – | ✓ |
| B-0150094 | biography | Leonard Tebogo Tume | 1957-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0150068 | biography | Simon Nkoli | 1957-1998 | ✓ |
Hettie McCleod
Hettie McCleod was born on 27 June 1922 in Goodwood, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). She was the youngest of five children …
Mary Margaret Ngalo
Mary Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon…
Traci Mackie
Traci Mackie was born to a working-class family, in an industrial village called Blackburn in Scotland. When she was nine years old, her…
Arthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice …
Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in…
Winifred Seqwana
Winifred Seqwana was born in 1897 and settled in Cape Town, where she became the first African woman member of the Communist Party of South…
Simon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a…
Robert Mokwena (George Sello)
Robert Mokwena, also known by his guerrilla name as George Sello, was born on 4 April 1952 in White City Jabavu, Soweto in the Transvaal …
Nosipho Dastile
Nosipho Dastile was born in 1938 in Uitenhage, a town in the Eastern Cape. After finishing school, she worked as a community activist as…
Mary Thipe
Mary Thipe was born in 1917* in Ramhlakoane, a village in the Matatiele district, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) near the Eastern Cape border…
Ruth Naomi Leon
The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the…
Lillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth,…
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…
Leonard Tebogo Tume
Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after…
Simon Nkoli
“If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outside is freedom.”—…