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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… awarded him this honour”². After the April 1994 General Election Gwala was nominated as a provincial member of the …

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1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… in 1991 and was elected Secretary of the ANC’s Election Commission in 1992. He was elected the National …

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1952

Mathews Phosa

Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…

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1949

Halton Cheadle

Michael Halton Cheadle was born on 30 July 1949. He received a BA Honours and BProc from UNISA. Cheadle then completed a Bachelor of Law from Witwatersrand…

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1940-2020

Paul David

Devadas Paul David ( Paul David) was born on 26 August 1940 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) into a devout Catholic family.  His…

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1969-1989

Robert Anthony Basil Waterwitch

… Court. Their mission was part of a broader anti-election bombing campaign which sought to target various election sites across the Cape Peninsula in an…

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1960

Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender

Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…

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1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… the HNP in 1941, having become the HNP candidate for a by-election in King Williamstown. He became chairperson of the … Vorster and his wife. He was the AP…

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1961

Julius C. Malie

He began his education in Basutoland, he later studied at Lovedale and the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked at various times for the YMCA, the South…

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1903-1972

John Beaver "J.B" Marks

John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province).  His father was a railway worker and his mother, a…

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1926

Tlou Theophilus Cholo

Tlou Theophilus Cholo was born in 1926 at Kgakana Village, Polokwane. A son to a trade unionist, his father worked in Johannesburg where he was an active…

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1949

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

… is known of his membership of the SACP.  Following his election as Secretary General of the ANC in 1997, he pulled … He insisted on returning to NUM…

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1933-2019

Jennifer Davis

… movement. In 1994, Jennifer served as an official election observer in South Africa’s first free elections and …

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1913-1999

de Villiers Graaff

… strength then declined steadily until the 1970 election when, following rifts in the NP, it unexpectedly …

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… Dhlomo resigned his lecturing post in order to stand for election to the KwaZulu legislative assembly, representing …

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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… of responsibilities with monitoring and reports. After his election as President in 1994, Nelson Mandela implied that he …

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… on its working committee. In 1991 he did not stand for re-election as COSATU Assistant General Secretary. He was an …

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1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… families, was pushed into the ANC’s 2000 local government election manifesto by the Congress of South African Trade …

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1960

Letlapa Mphahlele

Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…

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Aubrey Mokoena

Mokoena was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was brought up by Anna Khomo…

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1877-Unknown

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala

… not avail himself of private study." Prior to the general election of 1924, Masabalala accompanied Kadalie at the …

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Tim Bruwer

Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… Secretary for Finance and Administration in the SWAPO Election Directorate. Shortly before his death he was elected …

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1950

Charles Nupen

… in the oversight of South Africa’s first democratic election. In 1995/1996 Nupen left IMSSA to assist in …

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1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… anomination to stand for Rondebosch in the general election. He did not expect to win the seat, but triumphed …

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… in 1981, and became a PFP MP for Rondebosch in a 1986 by-election. He worked as a city councillor for Cape Town from …

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1957

Cedric Nunn

… photographers documenting South Africa’s first democratic election for the  Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) . …

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1946-2011

John James Issel

… in the Western Cape. Following the first democratic election in 1994, he became a member of the Western Cape …

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… its share of the vote in Gauteng substantially in the 2014 election with Maimane at the helm, but the ANC retained …

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1892-1985

Dr James Sebe Moroka

… of the ANC itself but a member of the ANCYL, and his election would be unconstitutional, the Youth League was … ANC had split into three factions. In a hotly…

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