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1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… families, was pushed into the ANC’s 2000 local government election manifesto by the Congress of South African Trade …

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1960

Letlapa Mphahlele

Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…

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1877-Unknown

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala

… not avail himself of private study." Prior to the general election of 1924, Masabalala accompanied Kadalie at the …

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Aubrey Mokoena

Mokoena was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was brought up by Anna Khomo…

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2008

Alfred Toto Metele

Alfred Toto Metele was born to farmworker parents,in the farming area of Qumhra, Eastern Cape. He attended school at Mooiplaas, outside East London, where he…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… Secretary for Finance and Administration in the SWAPO Election Directorate. Shortly before his death he was elected …

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1950

Charles Nupen

… in the oversight of South Africa’s first democratic election. In 1995/1996 Nupen left IMSSA to assist in …

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1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… anomination to stand for Rondebosch in the general election. He did not expect to win the seat, but triumphed …

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… in 1981, and became a PFP MP for Rondebosch in a 1986 by-election. He worked as a city councillor for Cape Town from …

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1957

Cedric Nunn

… photographers documenting South Africa’s first democratic election for the  Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) . …

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1946-2011

John James Issel

… in the Western Cape. Following the first democratic election in 1994, he became a member of the Western Cape …

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… its share of the vote in Gauteng substantially in the 2014 election with Maimane at the helm, but the ANC retained …

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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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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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