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Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld

National organiser for the Labour Party, in 1952, President of the Congress of Democrats, President of the South African...

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Isaac Bokala
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Isaac Bokala

Teacher, member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. Bokala was active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, th...

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Adams Farid Ahmed
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Adams Farid Ahmed

Member of the SAIC and the SACP, 1956 Treason Trialist

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James Edward April
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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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Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke
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Feb 17, 2011

Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke

Driver for the Boer commandos during the South African War, court interpreter, member of the Pretoria Location Advisory ...

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

Secretary of the Aryan Young Men's Progressive Association and the Hindu-Tamil Institute, served on the Durban Indian Ch...

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Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Biography
Feb 20, 2017

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Teacher, liberation leader, first president of Zimbabwe

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Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
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Aug 22, 2019

Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)

Member of the ANC, MK, was killed in combat engaging South African Security Forces, recipient of the National Order for ...

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Abdul Samad Minty
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Aug 22, 2019

Abdul Samad Minty

Honorary Secretary of the British Anti Apartheid Movement, Deputy Director-General for Multilateral Affairs and Director...

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Abraham Barnett Secchoareng
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Abraham Barnett Secchoareng

Teacher, active in the Kimberley ANC

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Alan Keith Brooks
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Aug 22, 2019

Alan Keith Brooks

Member of the Liberal Party, African Resistance Movement, South African Communist Party, author and activist. 

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Alfred Mangena
Biography
Aug 07, 2019

Alfred Mangena

Lawyer and Political leader.

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Allan Kirkland Soga
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Allan Kirkland Soga

Magistrate, labour bureau agent and a road inspector, journalist, founder and secretary of the Bantu Union, a Cape voter...

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Andries Raditsela
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Andries Raditsela

Activist, trade unionist, member of the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union (CWIU) and Vice President of the FOSATU.

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Andries (General China) Chamile
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Aug 22, 2019

Andries (General China) Chamile

ANC member and 1956 Treason trialist

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