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1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… and she worked underground with the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)  together with - and among others -  … Suppression of Communism Act . After…

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1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… Louis Trichardt and due to there being no high school for African children in the area; he went to live with his aunt … At the weekends they attended…

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… apartheid. In 1950, at an age of 20 Jele joined the African National Congress (ANC) and actively recruited cadres … In 1970 to 1971 Jele was secretary for…

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1944-1998

Basil Coetzee

… other musicians forged a new and unique identity of South African jazz in the 1960s and 1970s. Coetzee played jazz … the vibrant Marabi and Kwela dance…

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1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… that was formed to protest against the exclusion of African students from outside South Africa attending … Muthal Naidoo and Prem Singh. They produced the…

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1933

Mildred Lesiea

… Province (now Western Cape ), the only official area for African accommodation in Cape Town in the 1930s. She grew up … both Sotho and Afrikaans, although…

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1871-1946

John Langalibalele Dube

… western education by the missionaries and the traditional African society’s way of life. He spent his early schooling … in 1901. The institute functioned as…

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1924-2009

Dennis Brutus

… in his youth, he was also a founder member of the South African Sports Association, an alternative to the White … sports bodies of the time.  As Secretary of…

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1912-2001

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba

… tide of the growing threat of overt racism engulfing South African society, held his first solo exhibition in East … last few years of his life, this great…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… experienced journalist who counted many highly respected African intellectuals and writers among his friends and … to go abroad, and he duly enlisted in the…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… where he became a trade union organiser for the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). In 1967 he was … of furthering the aims of a banned…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… in 1972-1973 at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was instructed in … by Ronnie Kasrils . He was the spokesperson for…

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Vella Pillay

… It was at University that I met a number of Indian and African students as well as several Whites with a Marxist … and the crucial importance of the…

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1919

M. J. M. Williams Shope

… and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years after  World War … Council of Non-European Trade…

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1910-1969

Florence Matomela

… Florence was the Cape provincial organiser of the  African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL)  and vice-president of the  Federation of South African…

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National Congress (ANC) member to…

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1918-1998

Mark Shope

… and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years after World War … Council of Non-European Trade Unions…

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… in business until 1965 when the Durban City Council forced African businesses to move out of the area. Bertha was a … for women in 1931 and 1936. She was…

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1948

Zanemvula Kizito Mda

… a founding member and later became the President of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in 1947. In … the British Broadcasting Corporation’s …

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1964

R. Daniel

… leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the  All African Convention  AAC) and the short-lived African Democratic Party. He died in 1964. …

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1874-1932

Daniel Simon Letanka

… for the next 20 years. A founding member of the  South African Native National Congress  (renamed the ANC in 1925), … in the "bucket strike" of 1918, Letanka…

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1897-1986

Gertrud Theiler

… College in Grahamstown and from there went to the South African College in Cape Town, from where she graduated with a … of which the relating to the nematode…

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1977

Makhaya Ntini

… Roger Telemachus failed a fitness test. He made his South African one-day debut at Perth in early 1998, bowling well in … in the same year and he was part of…

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1869-1945

Thomas Mtobi Mapikela

… he played a prominent role in the founding of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912, and its official … a natural choice to preside at ANC conferences…

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1909

Isaac Bangani Tabata

… serving as a member of its executive. He joined the Cape African Voters' Association and educated himself politically … and attacking government programs…

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1924-1993

Cornelius Judah Fazzie

… the influence of the deputy headmaster who was an ardent African Nationalist .A member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in East London ……

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1963

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane

… (YCS). She was a founder member of the Congress of South African Students  (COSAS), an organiser in the Federation of … Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… was central to the formation of the  Congress of South African and Trade Unions  (Cosatu), and served on the … its inaugural congress. In February 1986 when…

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