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Feb 17, 2011

Jonas Dinous Matlou

Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African Na...

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Feb 17, 2011

Florence Matomela

Teacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Wom...

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Feb 17, 2011

Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke

Driver for the Boer commandos during the South African War, court interpreter, member of the Pretoria Location Advisory ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri

 

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Feb 17, 2011

Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

Northern Sotho Novelist

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Feb 17, 2011

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist.

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Feb 17, 2011

John Matshikiza

Writer, poet, dramatist and  political activist

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Feb 17, 2011

Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso

South African printmaker

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Feb 17, 2011

Philemon Mathole

Organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Elected secretary of the Tr...

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Feb 17, 2011

Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji

Member of the African National Congress (ANC). One of the chief organizers of the 1952 Defiance Campaign ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothi...

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Feb 17, 2011

Philemon Masinga

International soccer player and former SA team member of Cosmos and Mamelodi Sundowns

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Feb 17, 2011

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

Political activist and MK Commissar,  Robben Island prisoner. Later in life he played a key role in the formation o...

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Feb 17, 2011

Leslie Massina

Secretary of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Deputy volunteer-in-chief for the Transvaal in the 1952...

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Feb 17, 2011

Dorothy Masuka

Musician and Singer, exiled person

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