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1938-2009

Nosipho Dastile

Nosipho Dastile was born in 1938 in Uitenhage, a town in the Eastern Cape. After finishing school, she worked as a community activist as well as a volunteer…

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1934-2002

Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

… 1992. The elections ignited a crisis. The presidential election was inconclusive. UNITA and eight other opposition … to be signed. After losing a United…

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1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… and it was resolved to go ahead with the strike action. A leaflet was drawn up explaining the events leading to the … assist in speaking to the white women…

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1870-1945

Nadirshah Ardeshir Cama

Nadirshah Ardeshir Cama was born in Bombay in 1870. After passing the Intermediate Examination at the University of Bombay, he worked in the Bombay Port Trust…

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J. E. Malepe

A leader of the African National Congress Youth League during the 1940s, he was elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in…

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Bertram Buxton Xiniwe

Bertram Buxton Xiniwe was born in Middledrift in the Cape, the son of Paul Xiniwe, who subsequently became a well-known hotel operator in King William's Town…

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Hammington Silulami Majija

A graduate of Healdtown, he taught in Rhodesia and the Transkei and later worked as business manager of Contact in Cape Town. A prominent figure in the Liberal…

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1939-2025

Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn

… President Thabo Mbeki .  He monitored Zambia's general election in 1992, as part of Jimmy Carter's team, and ran for …

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1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

Nellie Jibiliza was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active…

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1922-1997

Hettie McCleod

… she was involved in campaigning for Harry Snitcher in the election. Once the election was over, she helped form a Food Committee with …

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1861-1924

Rustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu

Rustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu, also known as Parsi Rustomjee (or “Kakaji”) was born in India in August 1861. He arrived in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) at…

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1955

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi

… Zimbabwe, he led the ANC delegations to oversee the whole election process on the invitation of the Zimbabwean …

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… Africa, he successfully lobbied UN member states for the election of South African candidates to various UN bodies, …

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… of the party and, after the 1999 country’s general election Mangena became AZAPO’s only Member of Parliament …

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Winston Field

Winston Field was born on 6 June 1904, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom, where he was brought up. He moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1921. He…

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1953

Steven Eli Friedman

Steven Eli Friedman was born on 31 March 1953 in Johannesburg. In 1971 Friedman began studying at the University of Witwatersrand. While at University, he…

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Ishmael Mkhabela

Ishmael  Mkhabela began his political activism in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action…

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1962

Joey Fourie

… seat on the Woodstock City Council during a history-making election which gave Woodstock three communist representatives …

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Mr GK Gokhale was the Founder of the Servants of India Society in Poona. On Ghandi's invitiation, he Toured South Africa in October of 1912. He was associated…

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1923-1986

Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida

… union federations. In 1963, however, following his re-election to the NEC at the ANC's Lobatse conference in … later served as the commander of MK. Mabhida's…

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1962

Jacob Koti Dikobo

… Zambia, a position he held until he relinquished it on his election as AZAPO President. Dikobo is also a member of …

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1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… Act) in parliament on 10 and 13 June 1969. She received a reply from the Minister of Police, Mr Muller that ‘it was not …

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1892-1969

Bertha Solomon

Bertha Solomon was born on 1 January 1892 in Minsk, Russia. At four years, she and her older sister were taken by their mother, Sonia Schwartz, to join their…

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Emsley Manne Dipico

Emsley Manne Dipico, activist, politician and former Premier of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, was born in  Greenpoint, Kimberley. Emsley Manne…

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1930-2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

Hassim Seedat, was born in Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1930. His family came to Newcastle as traders in the late 1880s. He attended St Oswalds…

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William Mothipa (Willie) Madisha

Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied to become a teacher…

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1924-2002

Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa

Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…

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1850-1913

Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer

Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer was born in 1850 at Burgersdorp in the Cape Colony. He did his education at the South African College in Cape Town. After completing…

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1940

Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize

Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was born on 12 April 1940 in Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s forced removal from Sophiatown to Meadowlands…

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1941-2010

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche

… contest the Rustenburg Parliamentary seat in the general election of September 1989 as an "independent white man" but withdrew when a right-wing election…

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