Biographies
4,760 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007890 | biography | Peter McKenzie Brown | 1924-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007798 | biography | Professor Kader Abdul Asmal | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007775 | biography | Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett | 1953-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0085550 | biography | Thabo Marcus Motaung | 1955-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0064878 | biography | Bonakele Milner Ntsangani | 1923-1989 | – |
| B-0009251 | biography | Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa | 1923-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0008782 | biography | Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle | 1922-1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008442 | biography | Chief Maqoma | – | – |
| B-0153080 | biography | Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize) | 20 January-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0008576 | biography | Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi | 1923-2004 | – |
| B-0008266 | biography | Thandi Klaasen | 1931-2017 | – |
| B-0153063 | biography | Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa | 1967-2025 | – |
| B-0007886 | biography | Breyten Breytenbach | 1939-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0153052 | biography | Peter Randall | 1935-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0094629 | biography | Epainette Nomaka Mbeki | 1916-2014 | ✓ |
Peter McKenzie Brown
Peter Brown was born in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo game…
Professor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was…
Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett
Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in…
Thabo Marcus Motaung
Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part…
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He…
Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of…
Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him…
Chief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand…
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life,…
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a…
Thandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated…
Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa
Breyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally…
Peter Randall
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the…