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Richard S. Canca
Born: 1924 in Transkei

Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from the University of Cape Town.

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Johnson Dhlwati
Born: 1927 in Clarkebury district, Cape

He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training Institution, where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape in the mid-1920s.

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Gabriel Dichaba
Born: 1920

Born in 1920 Dichaba was a herd boy until he was 15. He left school to become a labourer in the railway workshops.

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Vivian Fitzsimons
Born: 1901 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Died: 1975

For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as nobody has done more than the Fitzsimons family to inform the public about our serpentine fauna or to alleviate the dangerous effects of snakebite. For much of the twentieth century people have relied on Fitzsimons's snakebite serum to save their lives after having being bitten and have used the familiar Fitzsimons books to identify snakes they have encountered.

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Janub Gool

Janub Gool, also known as 'Jane', was a founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the Anti-CAD (anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement) in the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sister of Goolam H. Gool and a college graduate.

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Penny Heyns
Born: 8 November 1974 in Springs, Gauteng Province, South Africa

Penny Heyns was born on 8 November 1974 to a deeply religious family in Springs, Gauteng Province. She attended the local primary school and later Amanzimtoti High School in Kwa Zulu Natal where she matriculated in 1992. At school Heyns was sporty but swimming was her first choice. 

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Anthony Holiday

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.

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Hermann Kallenbach

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.

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Kausobson Kausob

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.

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Eddie J. Khaile

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).