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Feb 17, 2011

Johannes Maswanganyi

Sculptor

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Feb 17, 2011

Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima

Leader of the former homeland of Transkei between 1963-1985, Eastern Cape

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Feb 17, 2011

Thinus Mathee

Photographer

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Feb 17, 2011

James Matthews

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

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Feb 17, 2011

Thomas Selema Masekela

Thomas Selema Masekela was born on 16 December 1908 in Madibeng farm near Dikgale near Pietersburg, Transvaal. Seeking e...

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Feb 17, 2011

Joseph Ramapulane Maseko

A self-taught artist with little formal schooling, Maseko began painting in 1959.

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Feb 17, 2011

Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

Chairman of the Orlando Branch (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign, ANC national executive committee, President of t...

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Feb 17, 2011

Mizream Maseko

SA painter and Zion Christian Church Deacon

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Feb 17, 2011

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

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Feb 17, 2011

Emma Thandi Mashinini

Trade Unionist

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Feb 17, 2011

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Tr...

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Feb 17, 2011

J B Marks

Teacher, political activist,  trade unionist, banned person, political prisoner, exile, President of the Transvaal ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Francis Pickford Marriott

 

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Feb 17, 2011

Alfred Richard Martin

 

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Feb 17, 2011

Dikobe Ben Martins

Artist, Poet and activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC); the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a...

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