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Education University 1985 - 1986
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Education University 1985 - 1986
3 February 2022
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Education University 1983 - 1984
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Education University 1983 - 1984
3 February 2022
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Political prisoners and victims still waiting for TRC closure by Phillip De Wet, 6 March 2015, South Africa
3 February 2022
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Hawa Timol's testimony on Ahmed Timol at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Hawa Timol's testimony on Ahmed Timol at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
3 February 2022
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Apartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
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Apartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
3 February 2022
It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of l...
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Johann Christiaan Kriegler
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Johann Christiaan Kriegler
3 February 2022
Advocate, academic, judge of the Appellate Division and the Constitutional Court, Chair of the Electoral Commission and ...
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Hugh Lewin
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Hugh Lewin
3 February 2022
Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...
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Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
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Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
3 February 2022
Member of Parliament. Vice Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, author, Recipient of the South Government's...
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Dirk Johannes Coetzee
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Dirk Johannes Coetzee
3 February 2022
Commander of the covert SA Police unit based at Vlakplaas
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Mxolisi Mgxashe
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Mxolisi Mgxashe
3 February 2022
Writer, author, journalist, Robben Island prisoner, exiled person and member of the PAC.
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Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
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Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
3 February 2022
Norman Pietersen was an uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla. On 11 March, 1987 he was murdered by apartheid Riot Squad in N...
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Education University 1983 - 1984
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Education University 1983 - 1984
3 February 2022
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Education University 1982
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Education University 1982
3 February 2022
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Education University 1981
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Education University 1981
3 February 2022
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Education University 1980 B
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Education University 1980 B
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