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Aug 07, 2019

Alpheus Madaba Madiba

Political Activist

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Aug 07, 2019

Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane

Political Activist, Chairman of the ANCYL branch, Secretary of the Laundry Workers Union, ANC NEC member and member of M...

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Aug 07, 2019

John Marinus Ferus

John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South Af...

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Aug 07, 2019

Oliver Mtukudzi

singer, song-writer, actor and film director 

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Aug 07, 2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

Attorney, political prisoner, Natal Indian Congress treasurer, member of the Democratic Lawyers Association, first black...

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Herbert Mabuza

photographer and farmer

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Aug 07, 2019

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla

TIC activist, member of COP National Secretariat, Treason trialist, 90 day detainee, MK and ANC member, editor of Spotli...

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Aug 07, 2019

Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng

Trade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the National Executive Committee of the 

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Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya

Political Activist, Chair of the ANC in Alexandra, later joined the PAC

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Aug 07, 2019

Buzwe Stanley Mabizela

Struggle activist, President of the ANC Youth League at Fort Hare University, uMkhonto weSizwe cadre, African National C...

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Aug 07, 2019

Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza

Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza was born in 1918 near Alice in the Ciskie,where his father was tribal  headman.After completing sec...

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Aug 07, 2019

Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida

Mabhida was an outstanding leader of humble origins who became a dominant figure in the trade union movement, the Africa...

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Aug 07, 2019

Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty

Trade unionist, social worker, political prisoner, banned person, member of the Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic...

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Aug 07, 2019

James Randolph Vigne

Anti Apartheid activist, founder member of the National Committee for Liberation, founder of the African Resistance Move...

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Aug 07, 2019

Denis Farrell

Denis Farrell’s aerial photograph in 1994 of a snaking queue of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his ...

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