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Feb 17, 2011

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

Political activist and former PAC secretary general.

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Feb 17, 2011

Jane Alexander

Artist

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Feb 17, 2011

Joseph Alfers

Photographer, reporter, television and media producer

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Feb 17, 2011

Phyllis Altman

Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)

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Feb 17, 2011

John Henry Amshewitz

 

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Feb 17, 2011

Nils Severin Andersen

Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he s...

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Feb 17, 2011

William H. "Bill" Andrews

Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

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Feb 17, 2011

James Edward April

Teacher, member of the South African Coloured People’s Congress and MK, ANC, Robben Island prisoner.

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Feb 17, 2011

Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

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Feb 17, 2011

Raymond Ackerman

Business Entreprenuer, who built the Checkers and Pick 'n Pay grocery store chains in South Africa.

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Feb 17, 2011

Adams Farid Ahmed

Member of the SAIC and the SACP, 1956 Treason Trialist

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Feb 17, 2011

Feroza Adam

Member of AZASO,FEDTRAW, UDF and ANC.

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Feb 17, 2011

Magdelene Malotane Adams

Magdelene Moloto was born in a Mission Station in Limpopo. She lived with her grandmother until she completed her primar...

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Feb 17, 2011

Arthur Albert Hugh Adams

South African Expressionist painter“My work is based on my experience of South Africa as a 'vast and terrifying prison' ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the...

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