King Moshoeshoe
Founder and first paramount ruler of the Basotho nation, Moshoeshoe I was one of the…
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Shaka Zulu
Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived…
King Mzilikazi
Source: www.sahistory.org.za Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the…
King Sekhukhune
Source: www.sahistory.org.za Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from…
Chief Maqoma
Born on 1798 in the right-hand house of Xhosa chief Ngqika, King of the Rharhabe…
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now…
Moses Josiah Madiba
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He…
Joe “Sdumo” Mafela
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in…
Sindiwe Magona
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu…
Arthur Maimane
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Arthur Maimane was born on 5 October 1932 in Pietersburg. He completed his…
Nise Bulelwa Malange
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Nise Malange was born in Cape Town. At an early age, she was…
Dikobe Ben Martins
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za “As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to…
Oliver Kgadime Matsepe
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe was born on 22 March 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal…
John Matshikiza
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after…
Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She…
Don Mattera
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg…
Mzwakhe Mbuli
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August…
Zanemvula Kizito Mda
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa,…
Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major…
William “Bloke” Modisane
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za William ‘Bloke’ Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in…