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Richard Victor Selope Thema
27 June 2018
Chairperson of the committee that drew up a new constitution for the South African Native National Congress,editor ...
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Henry Reed Ngcayiya
26 June 2018
Teacher, interpreter, church leader and politician.
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Mahomed “Chota” Motala
26 June 2018
Congress Activist, ploitical prisoner, banned person and Medical Doctor.
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Lionel Morrison
26 June 2018
Journalist, Secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and an accused in the ...
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Rocky Malebane-Metsing
25 June 2018
Member of the African National Congress. Planned an attempted coup d'etat in Bophuthatswana. MEC for Agriculture in Nort...
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The banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
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The banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
22 June 2018
 
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Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin
21 June 2018
British  general, colonel and Governor at the Cape
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The South African Teacher Who Turned Her Home into a Sanctuary of Color and Light By Alexxa Gotthardt, 13 June 2018, Artsy
20 June 2018
In the remote South African town of Nieu-Bethesda, a mystical garden rises from a dusty, mostly deserted road. There, a ...
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Sir Redvers Henry Buller
20 June 2018
For biographical and historical information on Buller browse the following links: http://48.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BU/B...
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James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
20 June 2018
Educator and Clergyman
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Millicent Fawcett
18 June 2018
Political activist
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Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
15 June 2018
Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impove...
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How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
14 June 2018
Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of ...
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Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
14 June 2018
An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became...
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Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
14 June 2018
Despite the vast literature on Nelson Mandela, the qualities that his leadership comprised has been surprisingly neglect...
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