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Jan 24, 2017

Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy

In many colonial and social revolutions, the leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were ...

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Jan 24, 2017

Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African National Congress, the warmest fr...

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Jan 24, 2017

Statement by Reverend Gabriel Seteloane at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979

I stand here not as a diplomat, I am not schooled in that line; but I do stand here as a man who shares a profession wit...

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Jan 24, 2017

The Wankie Campaign

The Luthuli Detachment was one [of] those detachments that were well prepared and well trained. I`m saying this because ...

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Jan 23, 2017

Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale

Mandla Langa was born in apartheid South Africa in 1950. His family, friends, and his own life were made in and develope...

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Jan 23, 2017

Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino

journalist, public intellectual, activist

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South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
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Jan 23, 2017

South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline

1952The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime, which in the foll...

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Jan 23, 2017

Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna

Abstract Lionel Ngakane was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served Sou...

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Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
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Jan 23, 2017

Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions

Aisha Ahmed Aisha Ahmed was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Currently a freshman at Southern Methodist Univers...

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Arts and Cultural Organisations
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Jan 20, 2017

Arts and Cultural Organisations

South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apart...

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Molefe Pheto
Biography
Jan 20, 2017

Molefe Pheto

Molefe Pheto is a South African musician and music teacher. He was an activist in the Black Consciousness Movement and f...

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Jan 18, 2017

Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers

ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa a...

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Jan 17, 2017

Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman

Hugh Masekela is recognized as one of the most famous and influential musicians of all time from South Africa due to his...

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Jan 17, 2017

Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen

Barry Gilder – The ANC Musician, Soldier, and Spy Abstract Barry Gilder is one of South Africa’s most impo...

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Olive Peace Landman
Biography
Jan 17, 2017

Olive Peace Landman

Schoolteacher, anti-apartheid activist, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

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