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1935

Anderson Khumani Ganyile

… from April to August 1960,then return to Pondoland. In early November 1960 he was banished to a remote farm in …

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1889-1981

Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize

… of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in early 1954 and was chosen one of the organization's four …

B-0008574

1924-1993

Cornelius Judah Fazzie

… Federation of South Africa Trade Unions (FOSATU) in the early 1980s. …

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1958-2008

Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo

… the Eastern Cape . Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern …

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

… Timol’s arrest, on 23 October, 1971, at 3am, in the early hours of the morning, the Security Police raided …

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1956

Ben Mclennan

… with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early schooling in Grahamstown , in the Eastern Province (now …

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1931-1990

Kgalabi Jafta Masemola

… on 12 December 1931. He lost both his parents at an early age and was raised by his sister. The family moved to … conditions and for a review of the…

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority … world. She grew up reading the great…

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1962-2007

Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza

… laws to strengthen their apartheid policies. From the early 1950s, Lamontville was a nursery and a microcosm of the … additional elements stoking anger in…

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J. E. Malepe

… of the Transvaal African Teacher's Association. In the early 1950s he identified himself with  Selope Thema's …

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1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… clan was offered to him, Rowley helped Buthelezi defeat an early challenge to his chieftaincy and became his legal … law and placed under house arrest in…

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1924-2008

Esther Barsel

… life to the struggle of the South African people from an early age, joining the Young Communist League (YCL) at just … the fifteen accused in the Bram…

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… increasingly prominent in the 1960s. For instance in the early 1960s he defended accused members of Poqo, the armed … a member of the Unity Movement…

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1870-1946

Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo

… take her daughter into her service, and her mother agreed. Early in her career with Miss Schreiner, Anna struggled to …

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… to find better employment there. It was in Durban that his early schooling began. To keep his employment, he attended …

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1897-1976

Helen Elizabeth Martins

… was some time after this, somewhere in her late forties or early fifties that 'Miss Helen', as she became known, was to …

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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… where he graduated with a degree in Social Work in the early 1970s. While studying at Turfloop, he was drawn to the …

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… in 1951 with a strong formalist grounding. Laubscher’s early paintings were influenced by Post-Cubist trends and the …

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… her work for the African National Congress (ANC) . In the early 1970s, Ponnen and her husband moved to Canada to join …

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1949

Norman Catherine

… wire sculptures and tin cans, and his paintings from the early 1990s set the tone of future artworks, which have been …

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1955

William Kentridge

… Son of two anti-apartheid lawyers, he learned at an early age to question structural impositions. In 1976, he …

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1931-2019

Babette Brown

… racism in schools, colleges, and universities called Early Years Trainers Anti-Racist Network (EYTARN). Through … a charity organisation intended to train…

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Vivienne Ncakeni

… teachers\' campaign for better wages and conditions in the early 1940s. She was also a participant and speaker at some …

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… and Walter's cousin's son Jongumzi (born 1957). In their early years of family life Albertina worked as a nurse while … League’s Transvaal branches. While…

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1946

Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk

… organisations in the liberation struggle grew in the early 1980s. He joined the Steenberg Housing Action Committee … to be politically active through the…

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1944

Mongane Wally Serote

… the National Party (NP) came to power in South Africa. His early education took place in the poverty-stricken township … the Ingrid Jonker Prize for debut…

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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… or Black people, both of whom were ‘underdogs’ in the early part of the 20th century. Olive was the ninth of twelve … rights with men in our country, but…

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1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… South Africa Non Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) in the early 1960s, and was the Acting President when co-founder … behind the anti-South African sports…

B-0096554

1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… of the 1920s, he was forced to leave school at an early age. He worked in a factory, he drove a baker's van - … on his life he would have little cause to…

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1959

Jane Alexander

… and a disquieting presence. This is exemplified in her early work Butcher Boys, which consists of three figures with … was doing her Masters, Alexander…

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