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1942

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma

… in Natal. As was common for aspirant MK cadres at the time, he also planned to leave South Africa for military … The plan’s components included: 1.Resolving…

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Billy Paddock

… serve in the South African Defence Force (SADF) . At the time of his call-up (which had been deferred because of his … in 1982. He based his stand on the…

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David Anderson

… and served the purpose of some of the publications at the time, one of them being Drum Magazine . Anderson left with … including the Boston Globe and the…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… schooling in South Africa but studied for a short time in India. He became politically active in the mid-1920s … in South Africa. He entered the political…

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Tim Bruwer

… role in opposing the South African government of the time. More recently Robert Kaplan, a psychiatrist in … referred to Dr  Hendrik Verwoerd , Prime Minister…

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Helen Newton Thompson

… of White English speaking women used their silence to challenge them. [10] As a member of the Black Sash Helen …

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1957-1990

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… loved him and he was very confident.”As a teenager of his time, he preferred African-American fashions, especially … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele …

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… while still a student, she was detained for the first time under the 90-day detention law, for forty-five days. … to eat for weeks. Neame was again detained…

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Dan Tloome

… this federation until the mid-1950s, also serving for some time as secretary of the African Milling Workers' Union. … of the ANC in Johannesburg in 1945 and…

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… executive for about five years,working some of that time as its full-time secretary-general. During the 1950s, he was arrested … and others, which lasted…

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Veerammal Naidoo

… the difficulties of prison life. She was pregnant at that time and she took her infant daughter Seshammal with … about three months before her death. During…

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1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… read you can’t help being curious about this”.  By the time he was four the family moved to a two bedroomed cottage … I was 15 years old.  A laatjie.  This…

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Connie Mofokeng

… of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one … still attend classes. In 1979 she…

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1938-2000

Margaret Singana

… the United Kingdom and the United States. During this time Margaret also starred in Sponono, a production by Alan … showed in New York. The recordings that…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… at an architect’s office, while studying architecture part-time at the University of the Witwatersrand. After qualifying in 1936, he worked full-time as an…

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1910

Stephen Tefu

… Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in  Pretoria  at a time when the party was at a low ebb. Shortly after joining, … with a procession by unemployed…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… be treason’ and worked for the Women’s’ League.  At the time Joseph was one of the accused in the infamous  Treason Trial . At the same time dos Santos was…

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1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

… to fight them till the end. This was in 1939 and at the time she was a primary school pupil at St Thomas Practising … the school's debating society and, as…

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1916-2015

Sarah Carneson

… Rubin worked as a tailor and, unusually for the time, employed Coloured and Africans along with Whites as … in a whirl of organisational activity. She worked…

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1942

Jeanie Noel

… that was not common in coloured communities at the time. She attended St. Theresa, a catholic primary school and … ever was before when she was finally…

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1963

David Tsolwane Uhuru Hlongwane

… welding course at Kmetcon Welding School. Around the same time he learned about the Community Arts Project (CAP) while … CAP organiser Derek Joubert invited…

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1929-2017

Emma Thandi Mashinini

… child was two years of age, Mashinini took on a full-time job working in Henochsberg's clothing factory, and … Union (GWU) , which was headed by Lucy Mbuvelo…

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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

… he drew inspiration from the townships where he grew up. Time spent talking with older members of the community in … graduating from Rorke’s Drift,…

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1956

Murphy Morobe

… 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist … role in the Soweto Uprising , and it was the…

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1952-2008

Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa

… Mandela’s sworn statement was read in court, the first time his words were legally heard in public since the  … Robben Island , and completed his law degree…

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1952-2008

Colonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa

… Mandela’s sworn statement was read in court, the first time his words were legally heard in public since the  … Robben Island , and completed his law degree…

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1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… so I could help augment the income at home. It was a tough time we were going through.” In 1954, Blanche married the … the National Party (NP) declared the…

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1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… In 1960, Ngatane’s work was publicly shown for the first time in the ‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Exhibition, at the … he held his second exhibition in…

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1962

Greg Marinovich

… Newspapers as a photographer and sub-editing part-time at the  Financial Mail . South Africa was about to … He had begun to work regularly for the  AP,…

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