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Aug 27, 2020

Faith Gasa

Inkatha Freedom Party student activist, teacher, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member, IFP Secretary, IFP Women’s Brigade ...

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Dirk Johannes Coetzee
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Apr 10, 2014

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

Commander of the covert SA Police unit based at Vlakplaas

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Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
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Aug 30, 2013

Alexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'

Member of Parliament. Vice Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, author, Recipient of the South Government's...

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Hugh Lewin
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Jan 17, 2019

Hugh Lewin

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...

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Johann Christiaan Kriegler
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Feb 17, 2011

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

Advocate, academic, judge of the Appellate Division and the Constitutional Court, Chair of the Electoral Commission and ...

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Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
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Sep 20, 2011

Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha

Teacher, founding member of the South African Native National Congress, member of the SANNC delegation to England in 191...

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Leslie Schermbrucker
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Aug 22, 2019

Leslie Schermbrucker

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

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Ivan Schermbrucker
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Aug 22, 2019

Ivan Schermbrucker

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the Springbok Legion, South African Communist Party (SACP) and uMk...

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Aug 15, 2012

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

Vice-President of NUSAS, President of NUSWEL, member of the executive committee of the Industrial Aid Society ...

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Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
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Oct 18, 2011

Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo

Thinker, orator and writer

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Mfana Matthew Funani
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Aug 22, 2019

Mfana Matthew Funani

Explore this biographies item to learn more about South African history.

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Dora Tamana
Biography
Oct 12, 2011

Dora Tamana

Member of SACP, National Secretary of FSAW, member of the ANC Women’s League 

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T W Thibedi
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Feb 17, 2011

T W Thibedi

Member of the International Socialist League in the Cape, supervisor of the CPSA's night school in Ferreirastown, Johann...

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Sidney Percival Bunting
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Feb 17, 2011

Sidney Percival Bunting

Communist intellectual and organiser, Sydney Bunting was instrumental in the formation and early development of the Comm...

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Molly Wolton
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Feb 17, 2011

Molly Wolton

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

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