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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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1949

Sadecque Variava

… African Students (NUSAS). In September Variava stood for election to the SRC, and became the first ever first-year … president of the Gauteng branch of Azapo…

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1921-1980

Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula

Mayatula was born in 1921 in Willowvale in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late…

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Klaas Matlala

Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]…

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1922-1998

Robert Mokxotho Matji

Robert Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he…

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1912-2002

John Jack Curtis

… the newly formed Progressive Party and in 1960 stood for election to the Johannesburg City Council. In 1966, he stood …

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1927

William Sinclair Winship

William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…

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1909-2002

Leslie Rubin

The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), then a multiracial district of the…

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1924-2009

Richard Owen Dudley

Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…

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Marion Monica Sparg

Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…

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1918-2013

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

… as the majority of the students had not voted in the election. This was due to a boycott of the elections over … National Party (NP) narrowly won a Whites…

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1960

David Dabede Mabuza

… defeats. Nothing epitomises this more than his recent election as Deputy President of the ANC at the 54th ANC …

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu). After his election as Fosatu president in 1982, Dlamini was involved in …

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1929-2010

Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews

… list for the National Assembly in the April 1994 general election and was elected to Parliament. In May he was …

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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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1847-1935

Mary Matilda Brown

Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform and was a campaigner…

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1945-2005

Faith Gasa

Faith Gasa was born on 1 January 1945 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). She graduated  with a diploma in nursing in 1967. Gasa…

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1955-2021

Cecyl Esau

… utter rejection of the apartheid state on 20 August 1984, Election Day. Unfortunately, Esau could not witness the …

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1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… a non-racial, democratic South Africa” A1968 draft leaflet in Afrikaans warned about Tom Swartz and explained …

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1929-2007

Harriet Ngubane

Harriet Ngubane was born in 1929 at Inchanga, a rural area near Pietermaritzburg, kwaZulu-Natal (KZN). She was brought up as a Roman Catholic but grew to…

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1941-2021

Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane

Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…

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1938-1982

Joseph Zenzele Mavi

Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in…

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1913-1998

Father Trevor Huddleston

… order to cast his vote in South Africa’s first democratic election. In 1995 Huddleston became the founding Patron of …

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1872-1940

Abdullah Abdurahman

Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…

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1931-1990

Kgalabi Jafta Masemola

 Kgalabi Jafta Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many others, was born at Bon Accord near Pretoria on 12 December 1931. He…

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1933

Abdul Samad Minty

Abdul Samad Minty was born on 31 October 1933 in Hartebeesfontein, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). Minty grew up in Johannesburg where he…

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1928-2012

Joe Mkhwanazi

Joe Mkhwanazi was born on 8 March 1928 in Mandlanzini at the Empangeni District in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). After matriculating at Dumisa Secondary School,…

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1958

Jack Mkhuseli

… UDF Million Signature Campaign and the campaign against election of the House of Representatives in the tricameral …

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1958

Mkhuseli Khusta Jack

… UDF Million Signature Campaign and the campaign against election of the House of Representatives in the tricameral …

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1932-2016

Mewa Ramgobin

… with many others, launched one of the most successful election boycott campaigns in the history of South Africa. …

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