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David Dabede Mabuza
People category: Arts & HumanitiesCommunityOffice BearersPolitics & LabourDeputy President of the ANC, David Dabede MabuzaDavid Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He...
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Keorapetse William Kgositsile
People category: Arts & HumanitiesLives of couragePolitics & LabourKeorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended...
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George Bizos
People category: Lives of couragePolitics & LabourArts & HumanitiesGeorge Bizos was born in 1928 in Kirani, Greece. In 1941 he arrived in South Africa as a World War II refugee together with...
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Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
People category: Feature biographiesArts & HumanitiesPolitics & LabourLives of courageJustice Arthur Chaskalson was born in Johannesburg on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the...
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Ahmed Kathrada
People category: Feature biographiesLives of couragePolitics & LabourArts & HumanitiesOffice BearersAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in...
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Peter Sexford Magubane
People category: Arts & HumanitiesFeature biographiesLives of couragePolitics & LabourPeter Magubane, one of South Africa’s most distinguished award winning photo-journalists was born in...
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Mannie Manim
People category: Arts & HumanitiesMannie Manim was born in June 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and entertainment...
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Arthur Goldreich
People category: Arts & HumanitiesLives of couragePolitics & LabourArthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now...
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Bob Hepple
People category: Feature biographiesLives of couragePolitics & LabourArts & HumanitiesProfessor Sir Bob Hepple was born on 11 August 1934 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father,...
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DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
People category: Arts & HumanitiesDeon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his family...
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Vicky Sampson
People category: Arts & HumanitiesWomenVicky Sampson was born in 1969, to Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When...
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Hailu Mergia
People category: Arts & HumanitiesBorn in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo...
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Denis Farrell
People category: Arts & HumanitiesDenis Farrell’s aerial photograph in 1994 of a snaking queue of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his vote, earning him a Pulitzer Prize...
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Herbert Mabuza
People category: Arts & HumanitiesHerbert Mabuza was an outstanding photographer, who was promoted to the position of managing editor at the Sunday Times and later to the same position at the...
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Oliver Mtukudzi
People category: Arts & HumanitiesOliver Mtukudzi, also known as ‘Tuku’, was born on 22 September, 1952 in Highfield, Zimbabwe. He was the first born in a family of seven siblings. Mtukudzi was...
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Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn
People category: Arts & HumanitiesPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home and...
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