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William Mini

William Mini portrait

Updated
3 Oct 2019
William Mini portrait

Summary

  ANC member of the ANC, participated in the 1952 Defiance Campaign
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.
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South African History Online. (2019, August 22). William Mini. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144784

South African History Online (2019) 'William Mini', South African History Online, 22 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144784 (Accessed: 15 October 2026).

South African History Online, William Mini [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144784, (accessed 15 October 2026).

"William Mini." South African History Online, 22 Aug. 2019, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144784. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "William Mini." South African History Online. August 22, 2019. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144784.

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