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Mary Sibande
Biography
Aug 05, 2016

Mary Sibande

Artist

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Mqotyi Gaxa
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Mqotyi Gaxa

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Diana Mary Mitchell
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Jul 22, 2016

Diana Mary Mitchell

Activist, Zimbabwe liberation leader, writer

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Anthony Mabelandize Gazi
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Anthony Mabelandize Gazi

Robben Island prisoner

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Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
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Jun 24, 2016

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

editor of the Women’s section of the Cape Times

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Wangari Maathai
Biography
May 18, 2016

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. Maathai is internationally reno...

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Mxolisi Bright Gebashe
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Mxolisi Bright Gebashe

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Devikarani Priscilla Jana
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Apr 28, 2016

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

Human rights lawyer and underground ANC operative; member of the South African Law Commission; former Member of Parliame...

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Margaret Mary Smith
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Feb 17, 2016

Margaret Mary Smith

Margaret Smith was an ichthyologist, painter, musician, museologist and an academic. She illustrated the book Sea Fishes...

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Bisho Jarsa
Biography
Oct 27, 2015

Bisho Jarsa

Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmoth...

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Mosotho Isaac Genu
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Mosotho Isaac Genu

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Portia Modise
Biography
May 29, 2015

Portia Modise

Female soccer player, member of South Africa National Women’s Soccer Team, Banyana Banyana 

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Marlise Joubert
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Nov 14, 2014

Marlise Joubert

journalist, librarian, poet, writer, editor and painter

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Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
Biography
Aug 08, 2014

Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi

founding member of UWO and SADTU, Deputy President of the ANCWL and member of the ANC’s NEC

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Villa Baker
Biography
Mar 28, 2014

Villa Baker

political activist, shop steward for the National Garment Workersof the SACP, exiled person 

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