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Simon Egert portrait
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Simon Egert
29 March 2021
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Malcolm Mbonisi Dyani portrait
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Malcolm Mbonisi Dyani
29 March 2021
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Lungelo Shadrack Dwaba
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Lungelo Shadrack Dwaba
29 March 2021
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Patrick Baker Duncan
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Patrick Baker Duncan
29 March 2021
Took part in the Defiance Campaign, national organiser of the Liberal Party and member of the PAC
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Ruth Alexander portrait
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Ruth Alexander
26 March 2021
member of Cape Women’s Enfranchisement League, friend of Olive Schreiner, politically opposed Jan Smuts government, lect...
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Lionel Forman
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Lionel Forman
26 March 2021
journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP
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Sylvia Neame
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Sylvia Neame
26 March 2021
Anti-apartheid activist, member of the Liberal Party (LP), the Congress of Democrats (COD), and the South African Commun...
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Survey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
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Survey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
23 March 2021
The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when pol...
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o
18 March 2021
A Kenyan born academic, author and social activist 
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King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
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King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
18 March 2021
King of the Zulus
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Wreckers of the Fight against Apartheid: The myth of PAC militancy by Sol Dubila
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Wreckers of the Fight against Apartheid: The myth of PAC militancy by Sol Dubila
18 March 2021
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PAC is the revolution by Victor L Mayekiso
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PAC is the revolution by Victor L Mayekiso
18 March 2021
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With the PAC in exile by Vusi Shange
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With the PAC in exile by Vusi Shange
18 March 2021
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Review article - How Can Man Die Better...Sobukwe and Apartheid, by Benjamin Pogrund
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Review article - How Can Man Die Better...Sobukwe and Apartheid, by Benjamin Pogrund
18 March 2021
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Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
18 March 2021
President, distinguished platform guests, ladies and gentlemen! We have arrived at a historic moment. We have brought t...
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