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Feb 17, 2011

William George Ballinger

Ballinger was a trade union organizer, member of the Joint Council movement, a representative of Africans in the Senate,...

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Feb 17, 2011

Richard Granville Baloyi

Member of the Atlantic Charter Committee, Treasurer-general of the ANC, vice-president of the Non-European United Front ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Vincent Baloyi

Artist

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Feb 17, 2011

Rowley Israel Arenstein

Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor,  member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advi...

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Feb 17, 2011

Ruth Elizabeth Arndt

Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the govern...

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Feb 17, 2011

Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold

Artist

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Feb 17, 2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs,(1994 – 1999) and a member of Parliament in the National ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

Commerical traveller, executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and a member of the Evaton People’s Transport Co...

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Feb 17, 2011

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

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Feb 17, 2011

Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper)

KhoiKhoi leader and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas.

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Feb 17, 2011

Frances Baard

Organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League and Trade Unionist.

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Feb 17, 2011

Ali Bacher

Cricketer, Medical Doctor and South African Administrator of the United Cricket Board.

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Feb 17, 2011

Baden Powell

Knighted by King Edward VII for his outstanding military career and for founding Scouting. His book 'Aids to Scouting', ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Jim Bailey

Founder of Drum magazine (1950) and The Golden City Post (1955), author, historian, poet and RAF pilot

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Feb 17, 2011

Ray Alexander Simons

Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...

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