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Sep 27, 2011

David Pratt

David Beresford Pratt was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the ...

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Aug 28, 2012

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

Member of the ANC and MK, Chief director of equal opportunities in the South African National Defence Force and Major Ge...

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Dora Taylor
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Aug 02, 2012

Dora Taylor

Member of the Lenin Club, Founder member of the Non European Unity Movement and Author.

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Mar 26, 2012

Mme Makwena Matlala

banished person

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Viola Hashe
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Mar 20, 2012

Viola Hashe

Labour activist, first women leader of SACWU and vice-president of SACTU

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Mar 19, 2012

Ruth Gosschalk

Political activist, Member of the Union of Jewish Women, regional secretary of the Federation of South African Women and...

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Mar 19, 2012

Dorothy Hazel Alexander

Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned...

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Sir Ernest Oppenheimer
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Feb 17, 2011

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

Diamond, gold mining and financial entrepreneur, and founder of the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa.

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Sir Sydney Kentridge
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Jun 20, 2012

Sir Sydney Kentridge

World War II soldier, Advocate, Queens Counsel, British Knighthood Recipient and Recipient of the South African Order of...

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Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
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Mar 01, 2012

Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase

Member of the ANC and MK and medical doctor

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Ilse Naude
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Jan 11, 2012

Ilse Naude

Member of the Dutch Reformed Church, Wife of Beyers Naude

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Winnie Motlalepule Kgware
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Nov 21, 2011

Winnie Motlalepule Kgware

Teacher, President of the Black Peoples Convention, recipient of The Order of Luthuli in Silver 2003

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Johanna Catharina Cornelius
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Nov 09, 2011

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

Trade Unionist, General Secretary of the Garment Worker’s Union 

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Philemon Pearce Nokwe
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Sep 26, 2011

Philemon Pearce Nokwe

Teacher and first African advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal. Chairperson of the Orlando branch of the CYL, memb...

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Derek Andre Hanekom
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Mar 15, 2012

Derek Andre Hanekom

A member of the African National Congress, was involved in intelligence.

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