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Police arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
11 July 1963

Police arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm

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Theresa Solomon
Lives of courage › Office Bearers › Politics & Labour

Theresa Solomon

1945 - 7 July 2025
Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945.  Solomon lived in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where she worked as a community activist from the 1970s to the 1990s…
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