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Isaac Osier Horvitch
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Isaac Osier Horvitch

Member of the CPSA, architect, 1956 Treason trialist

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Gopallal Hurbans
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Feb 17, 2011

Gopallal Hurbans

Sugar farmer, Vice President of the NIC 

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Baruch Hirson
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Feb 17, 2011

Baruch Hirson

 Historian, editor, member of the COD, NCL and ARM, a political activist, exiled person, physics lecturer

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Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
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Feb 17, 2011

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

Member of the Springbok Legion and Congress of Democrats (CoD), accused in the Treason Trial of 1956.

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James Barry Munnik Hertzog
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Feb 17, 2011

James Barry Munnik Hertzog

Lawyer, judge and South African Prime Minister

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James “Jobe” Hadebe
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Feb 17, 2011

James “Jobe” Hadebe

Teacher and political activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) Hadebe served as Transvaal Provincial Se...

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Feb 17, 2011

George John Golding

school principal, editor, involved in politics

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Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe
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Feb 17, 2011

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

Member of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU), active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, President of the Cap...

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Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
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Feb 17, 2011

Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie

Scout and dispatch rider during the South African War.

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D Fuyani
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Feb 17, 2011

D Fuyani

Member of the African National Congress (ANC)

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Christopher Nceba Faku
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Feb 17, 2011

Christopher Nceba Faku

ANC political activist and civic leader 

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Walton Zacharias Fenyang
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Feb 17, 2011

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

Newspaper publisher and ANC member

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Colin Wells Eglin
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Feb 17, 2011

Colin Wells Eglin

Former Member of Parliament and a founder member of the Progressive Party, Officer of the Order of the Disa and recipien...

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Justice John Mowbray Didcott
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Justice John Mowbray Didcott

President of NUSAS, founder member of the Liberal Party, Chancellor of UDW, Judge of the Natal Provincial Division, memb...

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Stephen J.C. Dlamini
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

Trade unionist, Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union, 1956 Treason Trialist, President of SACTU, Robben Isl...

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