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Mar 19, 2012

Fatima Nagdee Hajaig

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Kenneth Alexander
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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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Siyamthanda Kolisi
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Feb 03, 2020

Siyamthanda Kolisi

South African rugby union player, DHL Stormers and Springbok captain.

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Feb 17, 2011

Janet Burnside Soga

Scottish and a wife of Tiyo Soga a South Africa Presbyterian.

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Eric Magamana Lubisi
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Oct 06, 2020

Eric Magamana Lubisi

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

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Dr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer
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Feb 17, 2011

Dr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer

Medical doctor, politician and leader of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) and chairman of Anglo-American mining compa...

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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews
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Feb 17, 2011

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews

South African academic, African National Congress politician, Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN

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Florence Barbara Ribeiro
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Feb 17, 2011

Florence Barbara Ribeiro

Community worker. 

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Mohamed Farouk Asvat
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Aug 22, 2019

Mohamed Farouk Asvat

Farouk Asvat is a novelist, poet, essayist, translator and medical doctor. He was banned by the South African apartheid ...

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Frederik Willem de Klerk
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Feb 17, 2011

Frederik Willem de Klerk

State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1990 he opened negotiations with previously banned anti-apartheid ...

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Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
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Feb 17, 2011

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

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Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
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Feb 17, 2011

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, A...

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Clarence Mlami Makwetu
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Feb 17, 2011

Clarence Mlami Makwetu

Political activist, political prisoner and President of the PAC.

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Carl Niehaus
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Feb 17, 2011

Carl Niehaus

ANC activist, political prisoner, ambassador, Member of Parliament .

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Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
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Apr 17, 2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

Journalist, a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa...

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