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Liberation history Timeline 1940-1949
14 PEOPLE
- Stephen Bantu BikoMember of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO,…
- Moses Mauane KotaneGeneral secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the…
- Sister Bernard NcubeMember of the Companions Catholic Order, helped form local women’s organisations in the…
- Dimitri TsafendasParliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
- Hilda BernsteinMember of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist…
- Lionel Rusty BernsteinWriter, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal…
- Brian Percy BuntingJournalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of…
- Ismail Ahmed CachaliaPolitical activist and exile. A leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the…
- Fred CarnesonJournalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee,…
- Jameson Gilbert CokaJournalist, trade unionist and member of the SACP and the ANC
- Dr Yusuf Mohamed DadooMedical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social…
- Ruth FirstMember of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats …
- Advocate Abram "Bram" FischerLawyer and Chairman of the SACP
- James J. MajoroClerk, miner, founding member and secretary of the African Mineworkers' Union. Organizing…