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Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele

Graphic artist and African National Congress (ANC) activist

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Flora Mogano
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Flora Mogano

Flora is a mother, grandmother, church elder, foster mother to 9 AIDS orphans, and manager of 8 voluntary HIV/AIDS careg...

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Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
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Feb 17, 2011

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

Robben Island prisoner, banned person, President of Pan African Congress, Bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa...

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Frank Modiba
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Feb 17, 2011

Frank Modiba

ANC delegate at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

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William “Bloke” Modisane
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Feb 17, 2011

William “Bloke” Modisane

Journalist, writer, and actor

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Margaret Mncadi
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Feb 17, 2011

Margaret Mncadi

first president of the ANC’s Women’s League in KwaZulu-Natal 

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David H Mgugunyeka
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Feb 17, 2011

David H Mgugunyeka

Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities.

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Patric Tariq Mellet
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Feb 17, 2011

Patric Tariq Mellet

Member of the Jewellers and Goldsmiths Union, ANC, SACP, SACTU, MK, ANC Printer, Grassroots Adult Education and Training...

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Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy
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Feb 17, 2011

Benedict ‘Bennie’ Saul McCarthy

South African footballer

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John Xavier Merriman
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Feb 17, 2011

John Xavier Merriman

John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provi...

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John A. Mavuso
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Feb 17, 2011

John A. Mavuso

Member of the African National Congress national executive committee, defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial 

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C. J. Mayekiso
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Feb 17, 2011

C. J. Mayekiso

Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile...

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Philemon Mathole
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Feb 17, 2011

Philemon Mathole

Organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Elected secretary of the Tr...

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Thinus Mathee
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Feb 17, 2011

Thinus Mathee

Photographer

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Leslie Massina
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Feb 17, 2011

Leslie Massina

Secretary of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Deputy volunteer-in-chief for the Transvaal in the 1952...

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