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Barney William Ngakane

… he acted as chairman at the consultative conference of African leaders held in Johannesburg. A field secretary for … he acted as chairman at the consultative…

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1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the Transvaal in …

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1909

Frank Modiba

… and garment factories. In June 1955, he served as an African National Congress (ANC) delegate at the Congress of …

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Stephen Mini

… He was an early leader of the  African National Congress  (ANC), serving at times as head of … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African…

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1890-1983

Magdalena Gertruide Sauer

… the Old Supreme Court in Adderley Street into the South African Cultural History Museum in the early 1960s. … E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of South…

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1922-1978

Shulamith Muller

… was admitted as an attorney in 1948. She joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the early 1940s and was … daily news briefing [online] 7 July…

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1928

Christina Jasson

… to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) National Conference. …

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… in 1986. [xiv] The Green Belt Movement launched a Pan African Green Belt Network in 1986, which introduced over 40 individuals of various African states to…

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1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… Daane was born on 17 December 1937. A White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when … and H.A.R.T (adoption schemes for the people…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… from urban areas because of his involvement with the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and other political … and strategically it was important for…

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1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

… Indian Youth Congress and later in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), established in 1954. After the death … , an organisation of progressive…

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02-October1937

Rev. Mzwandile Maqina

… Church of Africa.In 1971 he was elected president of the African Independent Churches Association (AICA),but AICA …

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1928-2018

Archibald Mncedisi Sebeko

… Ray Alexander Simons among others. In 1954 he joined the African Laundry Workers' Union. … 2011]| Ontario Public Service Union , ‘OPSEU honours South African…

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one … Journalist, Secretary of the Cape…

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Bisho Jarsa

… story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth . Bisho was one of a group of … in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, then…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… Cape (now Eastern Province) was elected as the South African Students Organisation (SASO) General Secretary and … car immediately after the shooting and…

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1915

Reverend Beyers Naudé

… the destruction of Black family life under the South African migrant labour system. In 1961, Naudé became acting … University Christian Movement, the…

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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… with British imperialism in South Africa or with the South African (Anglo-Boer) War 1899-1902  that was fought to … off depression. In 1883, she wrote  The…

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1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… the organisation as a liberation movement in favour of the African National Congress (ANC) as the only representative of … from the Non-Aligned Movement, the…

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1947-2006

Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga

… November 1947 at Steadville, Emnambithi. A renowned South African boxer, Malinga’s career was inspired by Titus … moved up to middleweight in 1977, he won…

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… revisiting issues dealing with the dynamics of a universal African life. Ka-Mkame applies a personal synthesis of … and night coexist. And in its entirety…

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South African College qualified as an advocate when he was only 23 … rapidly and General J C Smuts, the…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… though only 37, succeeded him. He was the first South African born editor of the  Cape Times  and among the first … Norton was called to the Bar of the…

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1963

Robert John McBride

… Brothers - the prison letters of George Jackson, about an African-American associated with the Black Panther movement, … Here he met Vincent James, active in…

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1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… ) and through student politics (as a member of the South African Student Organisation – SASO ) that she began to … (FHR), the Women’s Development Foundation …

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1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… among SACP members in exile. Gwala joined the  South African Communist Party  (SACP) in 1942 and the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) two years…

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1900-1975

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

… Pretoria. De Villiers visited various countries as a South African delegate and did postdoctoral studies overseas. She …

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1951

Sabata Manaka

…  died of natural causes in Angola . He was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). …

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1940-2002

Caiphas Nxumalo

… TAG (Rorke's Drift Fine Art School in Retrospect). UZ: (African Perspectives Symbolism and Religion). Collections: …

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