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Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

Nurse, midwife, lawyer and member of the UDF and NOW

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Valliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Valliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar

Activist and Martyr. Died as a result of her participation in the South African liberation struggle.

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Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

Minister of the Congregational Church, President of the South African Native Convention, he led a deputation to London t...

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Gill Marcus
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Feb 17, 2011

Gill Marcus

Member of the African National Congress, business woman, Governor of the Reserve Bank.

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Harriet Ngubane
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Apr 12, 2021

Harriet Ngubane

Social anthropologist, world-renowned social scientist, author, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member of Parliament

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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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Jean Clarice Middleton
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Feb 15, 2012

Jean Clarice Middleton

Teacher, political activist, political prisoner, member of the COD, SACP and ANC, author, journalist, Editor of Sechaba

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Elizabeth Komikie Gumede
Biography
Aug 30, 2021

Elizabeth Komikie Gumede

Anti-apartheid activist, member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and an operative of the Azanian People’s Liberation...

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Samir Amin
Biography
Aug 14, 2018

Samir Amin

Prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker

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Helmut Julius Friedland
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Helmut Julius Friedland

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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
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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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