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Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

Teacher, court interpreter and clerk to the Mafeking administrator of Native Affairs, author, journalist, linguist, and ...

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Zweledinga Pallo Jordan
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Feb 17, 2011

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

Former Minister of Arts and Culture, political activist, analyst and writer.

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Amy Thornton
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Mar 01, 2013

Amy Thornton

Anti-apartheid activist, member of SACP, MYS, and ANC, secretary of Joint Congress Committee, served on the Treason Tria...

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Ernest Methuen Mancoba
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Feb 17, 2011

Ernest Methuen Mancoba

exile, artist

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Murphy Morobe
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Murphy Morobe

Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the ...

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Vivienne Ncakeni
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Aug 22, 2019

Vivienne Ncakeni

  Teacher and member of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association and the African National Congress Youth League  

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Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
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Jun 18, 2020

Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela

Playwright, poet, theatre director, broadcaster, arts administrator, Pan-African activist, founding member of AWA, MAWAF...

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Simon Gqubule
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Jun 08, 2020

Simon Gqubule

Theologian, educationalist, community leader, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Federal Theological Seminary, UDF, ...

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Conny Braam
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Feb 17, 2011

Conny Braam

Dutch anti apartheid activist and Operation Vula Operative

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Joan Hoskyn Davies
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Feb 17, 2011

Joan Hoskyn Davies

Davies was born on Robben Island in 1909, where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives D...

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Patricia De Lille
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Feb 17, 2011

Patricia De Lille

Politician, former member of PAC, trade unionist, founder and a leader of Independent Democrats (ID) and Mayor of Cape T...

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Esther Franks
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Feb 17, 2011

Esther Franks

First female Ophthamologist in South Africa

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Jun 10, 2020

Dorothy Alexander

Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned...

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Mar 15, 2012

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birt...

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Gail Johnson
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Feb 17, 2011

Gail Johnson

Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the...

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