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Anthony Holiday had served as a senior reporter on the Cape Times newspaper prior to his arrest, and had also been employed by the Rand Daily Mail as a political journalist. In November 1976 he was charged in the Pretoria Supreme Court under the Terrorism Act. He was charged with receiving money from the ANC and SACP, establishing an underground cell with three others, publishing propagandist material, attempting to undergo training in subversive activities while in Britain in 1969 and attempting to train recruits to evade surveillance.

Kallenbach was the owner of Tolstoy Farm and was a prosperous German Architect in Johannesburg. He became a devoted friend and co-worker of Gandhi's and he placed his Tolstoy Farm at the disposal of Satyagrahis.

He participated in the Satyagrahis great march and confronted white protesters. He accompanied Gandhi to India and many years later he visited Gandhi in Sevagram Ashram. He finally settled in Israel.

A number of Korana under the leadership of Captain Jan Bloem Jr investigated this complaint in the presence and possibly also under the influence of Fourie and a large group of whites, and Kausob\'s claim was rejected. At this time British authority extended over Transorangia. Since tension was mounting between the various population groups around Vanwyksvlei the British Resident, H.D. Warden*, tried to eliminate friction.

Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), based in Cape Town, and also was recruited into the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA).

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Charles Kohler
Born: 14 October 1862 in Calvinia, in the former Cape Province, South Africa
Died: 6 February 1952 in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa

As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of SA, or KWV) in 1918, Charles W H Kohler can be regarded as the most important figure in the Cape wine industry in the twentieth century.

During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand trial. He was chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) Evaton branch in 1953 and 1956.

 

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Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo
Born: 1909
Died: 1965

Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo was born in 1909, he grew up in Bloemfontein, graduated from Wilberforce Institute, and studied journalism through correspondence schools. He wrote for a variety of English and vernacular papers, and later established a printing business and a real estate company in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Kuzwayo was founding member of the African Democratic Party in 1943. He died in 1965.

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Cassim Mahomed Lakhi
Born: 1915
Died: 1989

Cassim Mahomed Lakhi was the youngest son of Mahomed Lakhi and his wife, Hawa Bibi, who were both born in India. They arrived in South Africa in 1894 and settled in Greytown. Here Mahomed Lakhi started the firm of M.E. Lakhi in 1914 and played a very active role in community life. He was a great philanthropist and donated generously towards education projects, charities and numerous mosques in Natal. 

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S. Mac Lepolesa
Born: 1927

As a trader in the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national ANC deputy-speaker. He was a member of the Africans' Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now Lesotho), where he became active in the Marematlou Freedom Party.

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David Livingstone
Born: 1813 in Blantyre, Scotland
Died: 1873

David Livingstone was born on 19 March, 1813 in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was a committed Protestant Sunday school teacher and probably influenced the young David to grew up with an aspiration to become a missionary.