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Sep 28, 2011

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius

Voortrekker leader after whom Pretoria was named.

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Sep 27, 2011

David Pratt

David Beresford Pratt was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the ...

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African National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
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Sep 27, 2011

African National Congress Timeline 1970-1979

By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained insid...

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Sep 27, 2011

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

Voortrekker leader.

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Sep 27, 2011

Vera Ponnen

Member of the Housewives League and the South African Federation of Democratic Women, co-founder of the Non-European Sol...

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Sep 27, 2011

George Gangen Ponnen

Trade unionist, early member of SACTU, member of the CPSA and was the chair of the Durban District Committee from 1940 t...

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Sep 27, 2011

Pauline Podbrey

Member of  the CPSA, Secretary of the African Commercial Distributive Worker’s Union, author of White Girl in Search of ...

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Sep 27, 2011

Professor Barney Nyameko Pityana

One of founding members of the South African Students' Organisation, and an important figure in the Black Consciousness ...

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Sep 27, 2011

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

Lecturer in anthropology at Fort Hare,University, President of the ANC Youth League.

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Sep 27, 2011

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

Political activist, political prisoner, organised women resisters from the Asiatic Bazaar for the 1946 Passive Resistanc...

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Sep 27, 2011

Frank A. Pendla

Court interpreter, a postmaster, a clerk, and a restaurant proprietor. President of the Cape African Congress

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Sep 27, 2011

Martin Plaut

Student activist, British Labour Party adviser on Africa and the Middle East and served on the executive of the Anti-Apa...

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Sep 27, 2011

Meshach Pelem

Teacher, businessman, one of the four vice-presidents of the African National Congress at its founding, founded the Bant...

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Sep 27, 2011

George Edward Peake

Founding member and national chairman of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, served in the navy in World W...

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Sep 27, 2011

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895.  His grandfather settled in that country after emigra...

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