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Pius Nkonzo Langa
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Feb 17, 2011

Pius Nkonzo Langa

Deputy President Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, and Chief Justice...

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Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
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Feb 17, 2011

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

 Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South Afr...

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Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

ANC member and political activist

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Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
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Feb 17, 2011

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

Business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist

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Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
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Feb 17, 2011

Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng

Trade unionist, African National Congress (ANC) activist and 1956 Treason Trial defendant and politician

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Abdulla Ismail Kajee
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Feb 17, 2011

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC 

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Isaac Osier Horvitch
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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 “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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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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D Fuyani
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Feb 17, 2011

D Fuyani

Member of the African National Congress (ANC)

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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
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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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