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Martha Helena Cillie
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Feb 17, 2011

Martha Helena Cillie

Teacher and headmistress

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Dorothy Ruth Boxall
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Feb 17, 2011

Dorothy Ruth Boxall

music lecturer,  founder of the Young Citizen’s Orchestra, served on executive council of the Johannesburg Music So...

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Feb 17, 2011

Diana (Di) Bishop

Political Activist.

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Feb 17, 2011

Mama Beshenga

Political Activist and Trade unionist (1960's)

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Yetta Barenblatt
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Feb 17, 2011

Yetta Barenblatt

Trade Unionist, member of the East London Worker’s Civic League and Secretary of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) in 1954...

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Mabel Balfour
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Feb 17, 2011

Mabel Balfour

anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, arrested, General Secretary of the African Food and Canning Workers Union, bann...

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Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
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Feb 17, 2011

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with h...

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Zainab Ebrahim Asvat
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Feb 17, 2011

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

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Feb 17, 2011

Phyllis Altman

Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)

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Magdelene Malotane Adams
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Feb 17, 2011

Magdelene Malotane Adams

Magdelene Moloto was born in a Mission Station in Limpopo. She lived with her grandmother until she completed her primar...

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Margareth Baloi
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Feb 17, 2011

Margareth Baloi

Ma Baloi as she was fondly addressed, was born on 8 August 1936. She lived in the region of Dunn, in Ward fourteen. She ...

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Dawood Seedat
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Oct 06, 2011

Dawood Seedat

Founder member of the Liberal Study Group, elected secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa in Durban, member of...

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Zuleika Sarojini Christopher
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Sep 11, 2013

Zuleika Sarojini Christopher

Medical doctor, member of the NEUM, Chairperson of the Durban APDUSA branch, banned person, political prisoner and exile...

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Zanomzi Welcome Diniso
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Aug 22, 2019

Zanomzi Welcome Diniso

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Rebecca Ditsego
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Aug 22, 2019

Rebecca Ditsego

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