SAHO global search

1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of … reconstruction after the war. Early life and career Milner was born in 1854 in…

B-0008561

1945

Milner Langa Kabane

… Milner Langa Kabane was born in the Transkei. Kabane studied … students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925. He was…

B-0008222

1923-1989

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 attended school at Welsh…

B-0064878

1836-1914

Joseph Chamberlain

… Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician … Jameson Raid , after which he, together with Lord Alfred Milner ,…

B-0123405

1870-1943

Sir Patrick Duncan

… London, and was chosen as private secretary to  Sir Alfred Milner , who brought him to South Africa in March 1901. Duncan was the senior member of Milner's…

B-0008029

1859-1942

Lord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne

… of the Admiralty. He came to South Africa to succeed Lord Milner as High Commissioner in South Africa, and Governor of … approachable than his haughty…

B-0009014

1845-1909

Jan Hofmeyr

… A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a political moderate, he worked closely with Rhodes until … up to the  Anglo-Boer War …

B-0008168

Richard Mzamane Mabaso

… 21 (Haenggi Foundation National Art Competition). 1983: Milner Park, Johannesburg (SA contempoprary art). Gallery 21 …

B-0149484

1922-1997

Dr. Phuthuma Seoka

… In 1953 he established 'Seoka's Twin 'Products' and a herbalist trade in patent medicines and remedies. In 1966 he returned to Molototsi near Duiwelskloof…

B-0009018

1862-1919

Louis Botha

… was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at the local … where Kitchener presented draft peace…

B-0144640

1934-1989

William Stewart Ainslie

… On completion of his studies he taught at Michael house, a school in KwaZulu Natal. He also taught art at Cyrene … In 1964 he established Bill Ainslie…

B-0007777

1942

Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold

… Cecil Skotnes at Poly Street Art Center and later was a pupil of Sydney Kumalo. From 1961 to 1968 he was an … to 1968 he taught sculpture at Dube Art Project…

B-0007797

1909-1961

David Pratt

… when Pratt was two years old. He developed epilepsy at a very young age and was regularly hospitalised throughout … Minister of from 1958 to 1966, opened the…

B-0068322

1874-1965

Richard Feetham

… from 1903 to 1905. He formed part of Lord Alfred Milner’s ‘Kindergarten’, charged with the task of … to the British High Commissioner for South Africa. He…

B-0098483

1830-1913

Gordon Sprigg

… Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up his first job in a…

B-0123390

1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… the Voortrekkers and the Zulu, including the killing of a number of trekkers in the encampments along the Bloukrans … In 1842, he married Maria du Plessis,…

B-0064847

1847-1914

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey

… district in the western Transvaal. Like many others, as a young man he took up transport riding to and from the new … and the war against  Sekhukhune  in…

B-0007987

Vella Pillay

… This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his … Durban  (with my uncle) where he went to school. Moved to a larger house where my mother had…

B-0008894

1869-1948

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

… life and education Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born to a Hindu family on 2 October 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, … father and his father's fourth wife…

B-0008089