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Alpheus Madaba Madiba
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Aug 07, 2019

Alpheus Madaba Madiba

Political Activist

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Paul Weinberg
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Oct 22, 2011

Paul Weinberg

Photojournalist, documentary photographer, taught photography at the Open School, media worker worked at the Institute o...

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Jundea Bolowa Tubakwa
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Jundea Bolowa Tubakwa

According to the minster of police in May 1969 Mr Jundea Tubakwa was detained on 10th September 1968 under section 6(1) ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) member and documentary photographer

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Caleb Mayekiso
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Aug 22, 2019

Caleb Mayekiso

Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, C...

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Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Commander...

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Mar 01, 2012

Michael Shivute

Mr Michael Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa po...

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Lionel Rusty Bernstein
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Feb 17, 2011

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal prisoner, exile,  recipient of The Or...

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Elias Mathope Motsoaledi
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Mar 14, 2013

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

Political prisoner, trade unionist, banned person

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Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

Organiser for the African Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, member of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, Treasurer of...

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Vuyisile Mini
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Vuyisile Mini

Trade unionist, Secretary of SACTU, member of ANC and MK, singer and one of the first ANC members to be executed by the ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

Political activist and MK Commissar,  Robben Island prisoner. Later in life he played a key role in the formation o...

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Michael Alan Harmel
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Feb 17, 2011

Michael Alan Harmel

Intellectual and revolutionary. Member of the SACP and  MK’s High Command.

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Reggie Vandeyar
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Aug 30, 2011

Reggie Vandeyar

Member of the TIC, SAIC, ANC, MK and UDF

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Bartholomew Hlapane
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Feb 17, 2011

Bartholomew Hlapane

Member of the ANC and SACP, state witness in many political trials

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