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Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
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Feb 17, 2011

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

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Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
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Feb 17, 2011

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, A...

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Carl Niehaus
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Feb 17, 2011

Carl Niehaus

ANC activist, political prisoner, ambassador, Member of Parliament .

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Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
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Apr 17, 2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

Journalist, a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa...

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Franco Frescura
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Aug 22, 2019

Franco Frescura

Witwatersrand University SRC member, political detainee, cartoonist, architect, university lecturer, member of the ANC, ...

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Harold Wolpe
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Aug 07, 2019

Harold Wolpe

Member of the SACP and ANC, political detainee, lawyer, academic, sociologist, Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar ...

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Dimitri Tsafendas
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Feb 17, 2011

Dimitri Tsafendas

Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.

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Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
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Feb 17, 2011

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothi...

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Rowley Israel Arenstein
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Feb 17, 2011

Rowley Israel Arenstein

Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor,  member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advi...

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Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
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Jan 28, 2020

Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen

Norman Pietersen was an uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla. On 11 March, 1987 he was murdered by apartheid Riot Squad in N...

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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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Leslie Schermbrucker
Biography
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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Mfana Matthew Funani
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Aug 22, 2019

Mfana Matthew Funani

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