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1953-2008

Ivan Toms

… Cape. In 1978, Toms was conscripted to serve in the South African Defence Force (SADF). Although vehemently opposed to the then South African Defence Force …

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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

… his job to take up full time employment with the South African Black Municipal and Allied Workers Union, an … and to Zimbabwe for a meeting of the then…

B-0007785

1929-2026

Leon Levy

… were realised in 1955 with the launch of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), where Levy was … for nine years. The predecessor of the Congress…

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Conan Doyle Modiakgotla

… the 1920s he served as secretary of the Orange Free State African National Congress (ANC) and was secretary of the  … was elected vice-president of the…

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1916

Philemon Mathole

… Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 … a member of the Moroka Advisory Board. He…

B-0008485

1938

Robert Cedric Wilcox

… Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa), … build APDUSA. He was also actively involved in…

B-0078948

1942

Letta Mbulu

… Letta on several world tours. She married a fellow South African musician, Caiphus Semenya , whom she met while … She has been a member of the prestigious…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… 1962 in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee. He was also one of the members of the nearly all-white…

B-0008145

1947-2017

Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri

… known, was restricted for broadcast by the old South African Broadcasting Corporation. Contrary to the desired … for liberation, for better living standards…

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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

… Union of Students in Britain. On his return to South African, Marquard found work at Grey College in Bloemfontein … college that he established the National…

B-0095602

1932-1995

Barney Simon

… Barney Simon, South African theatre director (born April 13, 1932,  Johannesburg … a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black…

B-0095118

1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… at the time, and her father, a member of the South African Communist Party eventually lost his position when the … and through this she established contact…

B-0008248

1924-1994

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

… Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1945 and then the African National Congress (ANC) in 1948, and the Leather … the CPSA and was replaced by the underground…

B-0095282

1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… from Natal University College. He worked for the South African Railways in Port Elizabeth , Beaufort West , East … Neame (1987). Athol joined the Communist…

B-0125363

1944

Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)

… aunt and uncle were both actively involved in the South African Communist Party (SACP) and as a result, her parents … on campus, getting involved in the…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… employed in the tobacco factory, Nkadimeng joined the African Tobacco Workers' Union, becoming a shop steward in … he was working for the Council, it joined…

B-0068262

1841-1948

M. N. Bhola

… . She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in … 1931 Non-European Conference, and was…

B-0007852

1964

Petrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers

… 1992/93 cricket season he started his career for the South African team, playing in One Day Internationals. In the next … fast-medium bowler. In 1989 and…

B-0007995

1895-1960

Sam P. Sesedi

… butcher in Kimberley. An executive member of both the All African Convention and the  African National Congress  (ANC) in the 1940s, Sesedi … Teacher,…

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John S. P. Motloheloa

… in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape. He … chief sales agent for  New Age  in Cape…

B-0068114

1829-1871

Tiyo Soga

… visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South African to be ordained in an established church. His journal … (as yet unpublished) is an…

B-0009092

1923-2003

Maggie Resha

… training at Holy Cross that she first read about the  African National Congress (ANC)  in a copy of The Bantu … was also elected to the NEC of the …

B-0008949

1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, … the late 1970s he explored more mystical topics like African…

B-0008370

1902-1972

Dezso Koenig

… During the Second World War Koenig served in the South African Army Medical Corps. He started the first art therapy … and especially the urban landscape. A…

B-0008269

1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She … from Rhodes University in Grahamstown…

B-0008193

1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… Abdullah Ibrahim, Ringo Madlingozi, Dondo, the South African Freedom Singers and the Victor Ntoni Big Band, … and was a musical director for productions by…

B-0094749

2013

Ephraim Nkwe

… In the midst of the State of Emergency , the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) was formed in March 1987 at a …  Nkwe was part of a SAYCO delegation that…

B-0095834

1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… and, during the Defiance Campaign of 1952, she joined the African National Congress (ANC) . During the Defiance … to the executive committee of the…

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