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Tembuyise Mndawe
Died:
Suicide by hanging
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Sifundile Matalasi
Died:
Suicide by strangulation
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Ernest Mamashila
Died:
19 November 1976
in Balfour,Natal,South Africa
(Suicide by hanging)
Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His wife was told that he was being held at the Brakpan police cells. A police statement said that on 19 November he hanged himself in the Balfour police cell.
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Bonaventura Malaza
Died:
Suicide by hanging
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Alfred Makaleng
Died:
26 August 1988
in Johannesburg Hospital
(Natural causes)
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Pongoloshe Hoye
Died:
9 May 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.
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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.
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Jacob Poo
Born:
1914
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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).
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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.
