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Joseph Nkatlo
Biography
Sep 26, 2011

Joseph Nkatlo

Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, was briefly a member of the Communist Party of South A...

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Matthew Nkoana
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Sep 26, 2011

Matthew Nkoana

Political columnist for the Bantu World, supporter of the Africanist faction within the African National Congress (ANC)....

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Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
Biography
Sep 26, 2011

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

Educationist, author, Professor of African Languages and Dean at the University of the North (Turfloop). Later became Vi...

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Jacob Dumdum Nyaose
Biography
Sep 26, 2011

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

Member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union, organising secretary for the African Bakers and Confectioners Un...

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Pauline Podbrey
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Sep 27, 2011

Pauline Podbrey

Member of  the CPSA, Secretary of the African Commercial Distributive Worker’s Union, author of White Girl in Search of ...

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Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Biography
Sep 29, 2011

Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko

President of the Transvaal African Students' Association and member of the ANC   Youth League, he helped both to draw up...

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Peter Engblom
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Oct 04, 2011

Peter Engblom

Photographer

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Emil Sachs
Biography
Oct 04, 2011

Emil Sachs

Socialist, organised shop assistants on the Witwatersrand into a trade union, honorary secretary of the Shop Assistants ...

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Chief Kgosi Sekonyela
Biography
Oct 06, 2011

Chief Kgosi Sekonyela

Chief of Batlokwa

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Theophilus Shepstone
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Oct 08, 2011

Theophilus Shepstone

British South African statesman, Administrator of Native Affairs, responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal in 187...

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Zacharia Solly Shoke
Biography
Oct 08, 2011

Zacharia Solly Shoke

MK  field commander, Director Personnel Planning of the SANDF, Director of Integration when MK, APLA and SADF were merge...

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Richard Gert Sibande
Biography
Oct 08, 2011

Richard Gert Sibande

Organised farm workers, member of the ANC, accused in the Treason Trial of 1956,  helped expose working condtions in Bet...

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King Sobhuza I
Biography
Oct 11, 2011

King Sobhuza I

First king of the Swazi 

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Nehemiah Tile
Biography
Oct 13, 2011

Nehemiah Tile

Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church,  established h...

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Elliot Tonjeni
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Oct 14, 2011

Elliot Tonjeni

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), active in the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union and the Afr...

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