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Sindiwe Magona
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Sindiwe Magona

Teacher, civil servant, novelist, poet, playwright, women’s activist, awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze for...

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John Maxwell Coetzee
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

John Maxwell Coetzee

"I am not a herald of community or anything else. I am someone who has intimations of freedom (as every chained prisoner...

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Achmat Dangor
Biography
Sep 07, 2020

Achmat Dangor

Poet, novelist, political and cultural activist, banned person, co-founder of Congress of South African Writers, worked ...

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Zanele Muholi
Biography
Jul 29, 2016

Zanele Muholi

Photographer

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Harold Strachan
Biography
Feb 13, 2020

Harold Strachan

Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist

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Esther Mahlangu
Biography
Feb 27, 2015

Esther Mahlangu

Artist, educator

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Kenneth Alexander
Biography
Oct 04, 2019

Kenneth Alexander

Born on the Cape Flats in the apartheid era, Kenneth grew up at a time of political ferment, forced removals and resista...

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Eric Magamana Lubisi
Biography
Oct 06, 2020

Eric Magamana Lubisi

South African painter,  ceramicist, art teacher and director of The Arts for All Centre.

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Franco Frescura
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Franco Frescura

Witwatersrand University SRC member, political detainee, cartoonist, architect, university lecturer, member of the ANC, ...

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Harold Wolpe
Biography
Aug 07, 2019

Harold Wolpe

Member of the SACP and ANC, political detainee, lawyer, academic, sociologist, Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar ...

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Lawrence Schlemmer
Biography
Jan 15, 2014

Lawrence Schlemmer

author, sociologist, political analyst, Professor, Dean of Social Sciences, Director of Centre for Social and Developmen...

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Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Biography
Oct 18, 2011

Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo

Thinker, orator and writer

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Paula Ensor
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Paula Ensor

Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT

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Wilhelmina Louisa Freund
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Wilhelmina Louisa Freund

Actress and teacher

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Mads Nørgaard
Biography
Jul 21, 2011

Mads Nørgaard

Photographer and webmaster at South African History Online (SAHO)

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