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Andrew Mokete Mlangeni
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

Political activist, Member of the ANC, MK and SACP, Rivonia Trialist and Robben Island prisoner.

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Nongqawuse
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Nongqawuse

History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement o...

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Benjamin Magson Kies
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Aug 10, 2011

Benjamin Magson Kies

Teacher, political activist, advocate and founder of the NEUM and member of the TLSA.

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Professor Harold Jack Simons
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Feb 17, 2011

Professor Harold Jack Simons

Taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town, charged for sedition in 1946 mineworkers strike, m...

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Selloane Ethel Leisa
Biography
Aug 06, 2020

Selloane Ethel Leisa

Anti-apartheid activist, member of the ANCWL and FEDSAW, founding member of ASHA, played a role in the 1956 Women’s Marc...

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Lauretta Ngcobo
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Lauretta Ngcobo

Feminist writer and activist

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Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi

First Black matron for the Natal Provincial Administration

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Tu Nokwe
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Tu Nokwe

Musician

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Mary Agard Pocock
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Mary Agard Pocock

President of the Grahamstown branch of the South African Association of University Women

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Magdalena Gertruide Sauer
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Magdalena Gertruide Sauer

Architect

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John Kgwana Nkadimeng
Biography
Oct 23, 2012

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

Shop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee, appointed to the ANC national exe...

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Sonja Schlesin
Biography
Oct 03, 2011

Sonja Schlesin

MK Gandhi’s South African Secretary

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Jean Sinclair
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Oct 10, 2011

Jean Sinclair

Founder member and first president of the Black Sash in 1955, led the organization until 1975, recipient of the Governme...

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Charlene Smith
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Charlene Smith

A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto ...

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Jean van der Poel
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Jean van der Poel

Historian and lecturer

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