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Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe
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Feb 17, 2011

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

Member of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU), active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, President of the Cap...

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Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
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Feb 17, 2011

Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie

Scout and dispatch rider during the South African War.

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D Fuyani
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Feb 17, 2011

D Fuyani

Member of the African National Congress (ANC)

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Mark Fish
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Feb 17, 2011

Mark Fish

South African football player

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Christopher Nceba Faku
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Feb 17, 2011

Christopher Nceba Faku

ANC political activist and civic leader 

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Walton Zacharias Fenyang
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Feb 17, 2011

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

Newspaper publisher and ANC member

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Chief Paramount Faku
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Aug 22, 2019

Chief Paramount Faku

Chief of the Mpondos

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Colin Wells Eglin
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Feb 17, 2011

Colin Wells Eglin

Former Member of Parliament and a founder member of the Progressive Party, Officer of the Order of the Disa and recipien...

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Jillian Edelstein
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Feb 17, 2011

Jillian Edelstein

Photograher especially in editorial and advertising photography

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Thys Dullaart
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Feb 17, 2011

Thys Dullaart

Artist

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Hein du Plessis
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Feb 17, 2011

Hein du Plessis

Photographer

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Justice John Mowbray Didcott
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Feb 17, 2011

Justice John Mowbray Didcott

President of NUSAS, founder member of the Liberal Party, Chancellor of UDW, Judge of the Natal Provincial Division, memb...

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Stephen J.C. Dlamini
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Feb 17, 2011

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

Trade unionist, Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union, 1956 Treason Trialist, President of SACTU, Robben Isl...

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Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
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Feb 17, 2011

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

Trade Unionist.

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Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
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Feb 17, 2011

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

Political activist, Vice President of SACPO, journalist, lawyer and member of the PAC

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