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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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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… After retiring from active politics after the general election in April 2004, Weinberg pursued her interest in …

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1957

Sakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma

… South African Council on Sport (Sacos). The whites-only election of 1974 raised their consciousness of national …

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1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… take a holiday in Harare during the PAC's local government election campaign two years previously, and his negligible …

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… in him defeating Piet Joubert in the 1896 presidential election. Later Kruger did make some concessions to the …

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1930s-2014

David Patrick Russell

Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the…

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1954

Billy Lesedi Masetlha

Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African…

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1966

Themba Godi

Themba Godi was born on 10August 1966 in the Village of Matsavana, Bushbuckridge in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). Godi commenced his primary…

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1968-2019

Carol Moses

Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…

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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…

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Elliot Mngadi

Elliot Mngadi was born in Roosboom around 1918. Alongside Peter Brown also a leading member of the LP, Mngadi spearheaded the cause of black farmers in Natal…

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Jomo Kenyatta

… new political parties. Mboya and Odinga arranged for his election as president of KANU in absentia (he was still under … independence. In May 1963 KANU won…

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1926-2021

Maniben Sita

… provinces, exhorting people to boycott the elections. When Election Day came in August 1984, Sita, along with …

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… Ebrahim started school and he was conscious of the NP's election promise to repatriate Indians. He began to attend …

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… return of the  National Party  to power at the general election of May 1948 meant the ultimate banning of …

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1931-2003

Ebrahim Badsha

Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…

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Elliot Shabangu

Shabangu was an active organiser at the street level for the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in Dube,…

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Albert Dlomo

Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC) at Chesterville in Durban just before it was banned in 1960. He then went underground and embarked on a…

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1952

Molefi Nathanael Oliphant

… for three terms, and then decided not to stand for re-election. In recognition of his monumental contribution to …

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1862-1919

Louis Botha

… now including many English-speaking allies, won the next election, and Botha became Prime Minister of the Transvaal on … polling day in September 1910, Botha…

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