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1869-1948

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

… and a number of public meetings. His mission caused great uproar in India and consternation among British … might, he feared turn him into a “money-maker”…

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Shirish Nanabhai

… Indres Naidoo , and Peter Joseph. He also remembered with great fondness serving soup with his comrades to delegates to … by the PAC ’s Poqo combatants. They…

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Thomas G. Karis

… rise in the State Department, he resigned and became the Great Lakes Regional Director of the Foreign Policy …

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1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… "5 WHITE GIRLS IN A POLICE PICK UP VAN". It caused great uproar. After her release Du Toit committed herself …

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1918-1975

Thomas Patrick Murray

… the South Africa Foundation in 1973. He became one of the great names in the South African labour movement. He had …

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… was the author of the Xhosa scholar's companion and took a great interest in the education of Africans. He was widely …

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Joel Joffe

… — such courage, such integrity, so committed... It was a great privilege to defend them.” Following the trial, South …

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… Scott whom she had rendered invaluable service in his great work for the Namibian people. On her 90th birthday …

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1945

Paul Stopforth

… these practices led (figure 2). They constitute one of the great works of art produced in protest to the apartheid …

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… a “Cape man”, with a fierce attachment to the city, and a great pride in the retainer he held to represent it. At a …

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1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… Frankie, Bonnie and Leon; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. …

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1853-1917

Dr. Leander Starr Jameson

… from politics in 1914. He died on 26 November 1917 at Great Cumberland Place, Hyde Park, London. His body was laid …

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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… to his single-minded dedication to the struggle. He was a great political teacher who taught generation after …

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1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… for a firm of attorneys in Johannesburg whilst spending a great deal of his time on political matters. In July 1964, he …

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… Like many of his contemporaries, Dhlomo expressed great concerned over how Natives fit into the paradigm of … of the Xhosa. In it, he argues that although it…

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1862-1919

Louis Botha

… in the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. A great man of action, he was renowned for his simplicity, … His paternal grandfather Philip Rudolf…

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1858-1929

Mary Elizabeth Davis

… they had five sons and four daughters. She devoted a great deal of her time to social welfare work and to the …

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1867-1942

Thomas Benjamin Davis

Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…

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1950-2017

Glynn Griffiths

 Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… in the north-eastern Free State where he commanded a great following. In total, more than 11,400 poorly equipped … become Prime Minister, cabled his widow: …

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1940-2023

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia

… According to Coovadia, his mother, an avid reader, had a great influence on him.  For most of his young life, Coovadia … lives and it was the period just…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… were drifting away. The Nationalist’s victory came as a great disappointment. We knew what to expect from them. There …

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1933-1986

Samora Machel

… was not new to Samora Machel. His grandparents and great-grandparents had fought against the Portuguese in the …

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1953-2005

Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu

… His father's resistance to the homeland system made a great impression on him and in years to come - particularly …

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1950

Biddy Partridge

… images of Zimbabwean life. This was a tribute to the many great musicians lost to HIV/AIDS. In 2006 some of her images …

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1920-2013

Zainab Ebrahim Asvat

… hundred and fifty six activists in December 1956 led to great hardship for their families and Zainab set about …

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… People , in Kliptown, Dr Jassat, as a 23 year old, had the great privilege of introducing the education clause to the …

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1906

George Arthur Heard

… to stop speaking in public, Heard resigned, and, at great financial sacrifice, joined South Africa's embryonic …

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1949-2007

Percival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn

… dominate the landscape or lose sight of what this great game is all about.” This quote sums up his sentiments …

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1926

Tlou Theophilus Cholo

… the 1967 Terrorism Act in a trail that became as the “Great Pretoria Six”. His co accused were Sandi Gardiner …

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