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Published September 18, 2019Updated February 17, 2023

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Adelaine Florence Hain
Born: February 16, 1927 in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died: September 8, 2019 in Neath, South Wales, United Kingdom
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain in Pretoria 1963
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain in Pretoria 1963

Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned

Published September 18, 2019Updated December 4, 2019

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Solomon Modipane
Died: February 28, 1969 in HF Verwoerd Hospital (uknown)
Mr Solomon Modipane was another of the Bakwena tribesman .He was detained on 25 February 1969 and held under section 6(1) of Terrorism Act at the Silverton police station.He died three days later in the HF Verwoerd Hospital.The head of the CID said that Mr Modipane had received 'certain injuries' when he slipped on a piece of soap,but that this was not necessarily the cause of death.

It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of my life for over forty years. He was a man of impeccable integrity and gentleness. Paul was a highly disciplined and a complex person who touched so many lives. I shall try to recount my friendship with him.

Sumangala Damodaran, author of The Radical Impulse, speaks candidly with her friend Ari Sitas (with whom she has collaborated on a number of musical and academic projects) about his latest collection of poems, The Vespa Diaries published by SAHO Cape Town in late 2018.  

Published September 16, 2019Updated November 27, 2019

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Ngeni Gaga
Died: May 9, 1965 in Transkei (Natural causes)
Mr Ngeni Gaga,aged 19,died under Transkei Proclamation R400 of 1960 on 9th May 1965 . Mr Gaga had been detained in the Transkei less than 24 hours earlier.At the inquest the official cause of death was given as natural causes.
Published September 16, 2019Updated November 27, 2019

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James Tyita
Died: January 24, 1964 in Port Elizabeth (Suicide by hanging)
Mr James Tyita died on 24 January 1964 after being detained in Port Elizabeth.He was detained under the 90-day detention law.The official cause of death was suicide by hanging.He was reportedly found in his cell hanged with his scarf.The period of detention was undisclosed.
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