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Dawood Ismail Cajee
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Dawood Ismail Cajee

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Nadine Gordimer
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Nadine Gordimer

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera...

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Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla

Youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations, Durban, teacher, legal advisor to the ANC Legal and Constitutiona...

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Billy Nair
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Billy Nair

Activist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of Parliament.

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Ismail Ahmed Cachalia
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

Political activist and exile. A leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the African National Congress. Promi...

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Achmad Cassiem
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Mar 19, 2012

Achmad Cassiem

Founder member of Qibla, member of the PAC, Robben Island political prisoner and advisor to the Islamic Human Rights Com...

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Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper

Vice President of the NIC,Member of the BC movement, Secretary of the BPC, Vice President of AZAPO, Vice Principal of UD...

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Sparrow Mkonto
Biography
May 03, 2011

Sparrow Mkonto

Trade union, community and political activist, member of CRADORA. One of the ‘Cradock Four’ murdered by the South Africa...

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Peter Sexford Magubane
Biography
Jul 24, 2019

Peter Sexford Magubane

South African photographer, politcal detainee and banned person

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Harriet Bolton
Biography
Jul 27, 2011

Harriet Bolton

General Secretary of the Garment Workers’ Industrial Union (GWIU), Secretary of the Furniture Workers` Industrial Union ...

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Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
Biography
Nov 28, 2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mande...

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Mary Maria Burton
Biography
Jun 08, 2012

Mary Maria Burton

 Political activist, Human Rights lobbyist, President of Black Sash, TRC Member

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Marcus Solomon
Biography
Aug 07, 2019

Marcus Solomon

Socialist, political activist, librarian and treasurer and bursary committee member of the Cape Peninsula Students Union...

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Trevor Andrew Manuel
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Feb 17, 2011

Trevor Andrew Manuel

Minister in the Presidency: National Planning Commission of the Republic of South Africa since 11 May 2009 and Member of...

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Imam Abdullah Haron
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Feb 17, 2011

Imam Abdullah Haron

Muslim cleric, killed in police detention

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