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Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba
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Mar 15, 2012

Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba

Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Silver

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Sarah Carneson
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Feb 17, 2011

Sarah Carneson

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, political activist, political prisoner, banned person and exile.

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Sydney Sekwati Choma
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Aug 22, 2019

Sydney Sekwati Choma

ANC and PAC Member, Robben Island prisoner

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Edmund Butane Cindi
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Aug 22, 2019

Edmund Butane Cindi

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Renfrew Leslie Christie
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Aug 22, 2019

Renfrew Leslie Christie

Deputy President of NUSAS, political prisoner, Member of the ANC and the UCM, Scholar and Academic, member of the South ...

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Mzwakhe Hespro Cikozani
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Aug 22, 2019

Mzwakhe Hespro Cikozani

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John Anthony Copelyn
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Aug 22, 2019

John Anthony Copelyn

A member of the Institute for Industrial Education (IIE).

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Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
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Feb 17, 2011

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

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Robert Diko
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Aug 22, 2019

Robert Diko

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Michael Kitso Dingake
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May 03, 2011

Michael Kitso Dingake

Member of the ANC, SACP and MK, author and columnist

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Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
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Mar 29, 2012

Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng

Teacher, banned person, political prisoner on Robben Island, lawyer, member of the ANCYL, member and President of the PA...

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Sep 14, 2020

Hettie Du Preez

leader of the Garment Workers Union, convenor of first conference of the Federation of South African Women, prominent ro...

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Sibongile Susan Mkhabela
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Sep 11, 2020

Sibongile Susan Mkhabela

Anti-apartheid activist, social worker, SSRC and SASM member, one of the student leaders of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, ba...

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Aug 26, 2020

Rebecca Lan

a member of Habonim, Modern Youth Society; social researcher; worked at the University of Cape Town’s Board of Studies; ...

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Jul 09, 2020

Hettie McCleod

Teacher, member of the Communist Party of South Africa, Franchise Action Program and the South African Coloured People’s...

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