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Silas Bani
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Aug 22, 2019

Silas Bani

Explore this biographies item to learn more about South African history.

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Mar 13, 2013

Jeffry Dumo Baqwa

Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, Medical doctor

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Mogamat Taufie Bardien
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Feb 17, 2011

Mogamat Taufie Bardien

Banned political activist, Bardien was involved in the Unity Movement, Coloured Affairs Department (CAD) and South Afric...

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Hymie Barsel
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Feb 17, 2011

Hymie Barsel

1956 Treason Trialist and member of the SACP

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Francois Pienaar
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Feb 17, 2011

Francois Pienaar

Former rugby player who captained and played flanker for the South African Springboks national rugby team

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Elmon Malele
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Feb 17, 2011

Elmon Malele

A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Malele was an activist involved in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, one of t...

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Raymond Arthur Dart
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Aug 22, 2019

Raymond Arthur Dart

Discovered the Taung child skull fossil, the first early hominid fossil.

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Zulumathabo Zulu
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Jul 05, 2017

Zulumathabo Zulu

Zulumathabo Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including...

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Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Sewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum

Golfer

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Roger Meintjes
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Oct 22, 2012

Roger Meintjes

Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in ph...

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Mar 01, 2012

Samuel Malinga

Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 19...

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Nkosi Johnson
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Nov 07, 2013

Nkosi Johnson

HIV child activist

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Eli Weinberg
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Feb 17, 2011

Eli Weinberg

Trade unionist and photographer. Member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of South Africa, Secretary of the lo...

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Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala

Musician

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Pixie Benjamin
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Feb 11, 2020

Pixie Benjamin

Organizer of the 1956’s Women’s March, Charged, Arrested and Banned for Distributing Illegal Literature under the Suppre...

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