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Published August 22, 2019Updated November 27, 2019

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Pongoloshe Hoye
Died: May 9, 1965 in Transkei (Natural causes)
Mr Pongoloshe Hoye died in detention in the Transkei on 9th May 1965.He was being held under Transkei Proclamation R400.He had been detained for less than 24 hours and the official cause of death was given as natural cause.
Published August 22, 2019Updated September 10, 2019

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Abraham Secchoareng
Born: 1924

Abraham Barnett Koatlhao Secchoareng was born in 1924. Resigned as a teacher when the Bantu Education Act was introduced. Active in the Kimberley ANC.

Published August 22, 2019Updated October 4, 2019

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Nomadhlangala Ndabezitha
Born: 22 September 1953

Nomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha was born on 22 September 1953 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha and Ntombinkulu Bhengu. Her late father, Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha, a pioneer school principal in Natal was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) later renamed the African National Congress (ANC).

Published August 22, 2019Updated September 5, 2019

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Born: 1895
Died: 27 January 1970
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother was a Mauritian citizen. His father made his first trip to Natal in 1891 and worked as a jeweller in Durban for a few years before returning to Mauritius. PR along with his parents and brother, PA Pather immigrated to South Africa in 1903.
Published August 22, 2019Updated June 15, 2020
Vivienne Ncakeni was born in Brakpan, she was educated in the Transvaal and Natal and trained as a teacher. She returned to Brakpan to teach in the late 1930s and became one of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African Teachers\' Association, serving on the TATA executive and on the action committee that planned the teachers\' campaign for better wages and conditions in the early 1940s.
Published August 22, 2019Updated October 3, 2019
Born in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, he was aged 37 at the time of the trial. He had a magnificent bass voice, and \'in the Fort his voice rolled above the combined effort of all the others, singing a song he himself had introduced: Iza unyatele Afrika, Strydom shoo…("Strydom, beware, Africa will trample you").\' He was a veteran of the Defiance Campaign, who served three months for breaking railway apartheid regulations, and lost his job as a packer in a battery factory because of his arrest. At the time of the trial he had been taking part in the Sophiatown bus boycott.
Published August 22, 2019Updated October 3, 2019

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Nathaniel James Merriman
Born: 4 April 1809
Died: 16 August 1882

Born in Marlborough, England, on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and Oxford (where he formed a lifelong friendship with W. E. Gladstone), Merriman was appointed curate of Street (Somersetshire) in 1840. In 3847 he offered his services to Bishop Gray and was appointed the first archdeacon of Grahamstown, with the task of supervising the Anglican Church in the entire eastern region of the Cape Colony.

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