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Published 22 August 2019Updated 15 June 2020

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Vivienne Ncakeni
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 22 August 2019Updated 3 October 2019

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William Mini
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 22 August 2019Updated 3 October 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.

Published 22 August 2019Updated 3 October 2019

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Shepherd Mdladlana
Born: 12 May 1952

On 12 May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the Communist Party.

Published 22 August 2019Updated 3 October 2019

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Thomas Mbeki
Born: circa 1900

Little is known of his background except that he was Xhosa-speaking and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) night school in Ferreirastown, Johannesburg and soon joined the Young Communist League as one of its first African recruits.

Published 22 August 2019Updated 10 September 2019

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Alfred Nobel
Born: 21 October 1833
Died: 10 December 1896
 

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