Biographies
10,765 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008205 | biography | Abdullah Haji Adam Jhaveri | – | – |
| B-0008201 | biography | Christina Jasson | 1928 | – |
| B-0008195 | biography | Dr. Leander Starr Jameson | 1853-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0008184 | biography | Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson | 1924-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0008182 | biography | Gopallal Hurbans | 1915 | – |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0008164 | biography | Emily Hobhouse | 1860-1926 | ✓ |
| B-0008160 | biography | Bartholomew Hlapane | 1918-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008145 | biography | Frederick John Harris | 1937-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008144 | biography | Imam Abdullah Haron | 1924-1969 | ✓ |
| B-0008142 | biography | Michael Alan Harmel | 1915-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0008139 | biography | George Hallett | 1942-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0008138 | biography | James “Jobe” Hadebe | 1923 | – |
| B-0008127 | biography | Rev. Aldin Grout | 1803-1894 | – |
| B-0008110 | biography | John Gomas | – | – |
Abdullah Haji Adam Jhaveri
He was commonly referred to as Dada Abdulla. His brother, Abdul Karim Jhaveri, and himself, were the directors of Dada Abdulla and Company…
Christina Jasson
Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and…
Dr. Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. After his parents moved to London, he went to school at…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he…
Gopallal Hurbans
Born in 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and…
Isaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public…
Emily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British…
Bartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to…
Frederick John Harris
Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party In 1962…
Imam Abdullah Haron
Imam Abdullah Haron was born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous…
Michael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely…
George Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he…
James “Jobe” Hadebe
James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi…
Rev. Aldin Grout
Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and…
John Gomas
John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the…