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1930-2018

Billy Modise

… with Thabo Mbeki as leader in Britain. The ANC YSS had two main objectives: looking after the welfare of the ANC youth …

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1953

Penny Siopis

… paint with a collage of torn up history books, with the main figure sitting on the accumulated debris of history. …

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1924-1999

Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia

… on the cable on the Victoria Street Bridge. This was the main South Coast line that ran from Durban to Rossburgh and …

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Maphuti Molatela Seopa

In terms of a banishment order dated 21 July 1953, Maphuti Molatela Seopa and her two children were banished in October 1953 from Matlala's Location,…

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1970

George Mokate Ramafoku

… by the Chief. Ramafoku was accused of being one of six main antagonists and it was recommended that he and the other …

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1923-1986

Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida

… leaders in the camps of their respective movements. In the 1980s, Mabhida continued his work of political and logistical …

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1933-2019

Jennifer Davis

… repression in South Africa continued to escalate in the 1980s, the American Committee on Africa played a key role in …

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1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… Congress (SANNC) in Bloemfontein in 1912, and although her main concerns were church-linked social issues, Maxeke also …

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… in the segregated apartheid era. Staffrider had two main objectives: to provide publishing opportunities for …

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… client in jail.” Lubowski is said to have felt that the main difference between the NNF and SWAPO was in the economic …

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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… vocals for Nkabinde and five other women to sing the main harmonies. The female group was named Mahotella Queens, …

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1939

Marcus Solomon

… of Cape Town from 1995-96 and mayor from 1996-98. In the 1980s civics became politicized around the issue of adopting … Maintaining that human beings make…

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Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana

Chief Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana (Faku), from Bizana District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], refused to cooperate with the state around policies and…

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1945

Omar Badsha

… travel to the exhibition opening in New York. In the late 1980s, Badsha and his family moved to Cape Town when his wife …

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1870-1950

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

… such as fascism. However, holism was again taken up in the 1980s, and has been propagated as a “brilliant development” …

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1952-2010

Sarah Gertrude Holland

… on a farm in Ingogo, northern KwaZulu-Natal. Its main purpose was to provide a dignified homecare service to …

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1922-1997

Hettie McCleod

… the African National Congress  (ANC), Hettie became the main breadwinner. Among other jobs, she worked for the …

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

… personality on South African television as the ANC's main media spokesperson before and during the 1994 elections. …

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1961

Jo Ractliffe

… as well as installation video and projections. However her main chosen medium is the analog black and white image which …

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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… continued when he left Drum for the Golden City Post. His main creative energies always went into his music. His …

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Patrick Chamusso

… role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his work …

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5 June1958-2021

Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu

… eMalahleni Civic Association. During the dark years of the 1980s, the State of Emergency saw him in and out of prison as …

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1949

Nowongile Cynthia Molo

Nowongile Cynthia Molo was born in 1949 in the former Transkei (now Eastern Cape). She completed the Junior Certificate (Form 3) at Bethel College. She has…

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1942

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

… the Zimbabwean government came under strain. During the 1980s, Mbeki became a leading figure in the SACP, rising to the party’s central committee by the mid…

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1956

Trevor Andrew Manuel

… conducted a review of Ministers in its position as main opposition to the ruling party, the ANC. Manuel emerged …

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… the South African way of life,’ Gordimer has said. In the 1980s Gordimer published the short story collections, A …

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Elliot Mngadi

… Association (NNALA) was formed around October 1957. The main of the NNALA was to resist forced removals being …

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1924-1998

Alan McLeod Cormack

… playing tennis, taking part in debating and acting. His main interest, however, was astronomy, through which he …

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1948

Sumboornam Pillay

… carried on until her banning order expired in 1978. In the 1980s, Moodley got involved in the Disability Movement in …

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