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1951-2025

Rashid Lombard

… which he was the Festival Director. Lombard promoted South African jazz music. Jazz Rocks, a book of his jazz … International Jazz Festival, which paid…

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1916-1988

Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld

… many of his neighbours were violently opposed to South African participation in the war against Hitler. After a time … later, in 1955, he became the first…

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1949

Gill Marcus

… 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in Johannesburg … went into exile where she spent her…

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1939

Manfred Zylla

… event, up to 3 x 2 meters in size, depicting typical South African characters and scenarios. Zylla's artistic … a period of eight months. They satirized…

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1954-2008

John Matshikiza

… then combined stage acting in London with activism for the African National Congress (ANC). In the early 1970s he helped … also lived in the United States,…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) the liberation army of the African National Congress (ANC) and leading figures of the … to becoming a Member of Parliament, he was…

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Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… Stofile entered politics in 1963 as a member of the African Students' Association, an  African National Congress  (ANC) front organisation but only … sport…

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1932-2008

Miriam Makeba

… could mix.  It was the scene of kwela music, marabi and African jazz and big band music became popular.  Miriam … group, the Skylarks, which combined jazz…

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1900-1976

Emil Sachs

… elected to the national executive committee of the South African Trade and Labour Council (SATLC). In March 1927 he … founded a film company that brought…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… very confident.” As a teenager of his time, he preferred African-American fashions, especially drawn to hippie … and had a vibrant social life. Mashinini…

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

… During the early 1950s a large majority of South African activists were banned by the Apartheid regime. One of … Abrahams was also the Western Cape secretary…

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

… to 1937 a member of the executive committee of the  All African Convention , of which his brother,  D. D. T. Jabavu , … KIand CWU,which he regard as the only…

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1956

Christopher Nceba Faku

… was elected as regional organiser of the Eastern Cape  African National Congress  (ANC) and also held an ANC/South African Communist Party (SACP) local…

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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… and was a prize winner of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures. He was a distinguished Zulu … were traditional "praise-songs"…

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… became a supporter of the Africanist faction within the  African National Congress  (ANC). Arrested in March 1960 for … has contributed to various…

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… black students and the white-led National Union of South African Students. He completed a BA degree in 1956 and later … mission, attending meetings of the…

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… United Nations in 1946 as a representative of the South African Passive Resistance Council. In 1948 he was among the … abortive attempt to prove sedition in…

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1939-2022

Francis Wilson

… worldview. He mentions the liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) as some of his circle of … for many years (until 2001) was the director…

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… no difficulty in obtaining a passport from the South African government'. When told he would not get a passport, … 12 1937 - July 14 1965. Journalist, Nieman…

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1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… to her only child and few years later. She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, participating as a … League and a leading member of the…

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1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… in South Africa and a self-confessed traitor," the South African government minister Ben Schoeman unwittingly bestowed … the University of Cape Town. He…

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1967-1991

Vuyani Mabaxa

… In 1982, Mabaxa became a member of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and was actively involved in its … school going youth only. Following the…

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1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… the Afrapix office, which was first based at the South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso … to 1999. McKenzie was the Johannesburg head…

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1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… prospects for a viable career, Gqobose joined the South African Military Service in 1941, and served in South Africa, … attainable for black people in the…

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1928-2016

Clarence Mlami Makwetu

… found work in Cape Town where he joined the African National Congress Youth League 1954. Makwetu was … by the  Defiance Campaign of 1952  organised by the …

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Billy Paddock

… 1970s, Paddock was a member of Archbishop Tutu’s  South African Council of Churches-sponsored delegation to Europe, … need for the world to apply pressure on…

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1930-2017

Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba

… Indian Congress (TIC). In 1959, he joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) recruited by Ahmed Kathrada . … United Democratic Front (UDF) and…

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