SAHO global search

1901-1969

Phillip Qipu Vundla

Philip Vundla was born in 1901 and attended Healdtown for some years before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser…

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1924

Richard S. Canca

Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from…

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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

… Kenya and to Zimbabwe for a meeting of the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On his return to South … in the formation of the Pan-Africanist Movement…

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Potlako Leballo

… and weakened the lines of authority that remained in the organisation. Calling a press conference, he announced that  … been challenged by other former…

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1929

Peter Hlaole Molotsi

… Christian Association (YMCA), and the African Student Organisation (ASO). There was the Cape Peninsula Students … youth formations, and labour formations…

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1945

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

… suspected him of having been recruited by an underground organisation led by the Afrikaans poet,  Breyten Breytenbach …  who was arrested on the grounds of…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… (SWAPO), which became the preeminent liberation organisation fighting for Namibia’s independence. In 1974, … not a Communist, Socialist or a otherwise worker…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… African Students Organization (SASO), a black student organisation headed by his close friend Steve Biko , while NUSAS remained a predominantly white student…

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1933-2019

Jennifer Davis

Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…

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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… to leave the country to escape imprisonment and keep the organisation alive abroad. de Keyser found herself helping to …

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1947-2008

Mike Terry

… it was recognised that the AAM was needed as a permanent organisation to work towards the eradication of the apartheid …

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Unknown-1987

Cameron Mbulelo Madikizela

… continued to promote the work of the Unity Movement, an organisation of which he was a member for his entire life.  …

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1949-2009

Henry Eric Isaacs

… was elected vice-president of the South Africa Students' Organisation (SASO) at it national conference.In September …

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1955

Gana Makabeni

… found the Council of Non-European Trade Unions, but the organisation was soon beset by internal conflicts, and in …

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… Women (FEDSAW)  in early 1954 and was chosen one of the organisation's four national vice-presidents. She was …

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Stephanie Urdang

… based in New York at the offices of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), which was an activist organisation that…

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1930-2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

… Democratic Lawyers Association (DLA), the first black law organisation in the country. He has been a past chairman of the Global Organisation of People of…

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William Mothipa (Willie) Madisha

… In 2008, COSATU removed Madisha as President of the organisation. He was found guilty of unprofessional conduct … the ANC presidency. The SACP also expelled…

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… of the PAC's external mission, attending meetings of the Organisation of African Unity and speaking before the Special …

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1872-1940

Abdullah Abdurahman

… brothers. It was, as president of the African Political Organisation (APO) that Abdurahman made his most important … The APO, the first substantive Coloured…

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1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced).  Nkosi…

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1914-2016

Selloane Ethel Leisa

… joined the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) , an organisation which aimed to unite women from all walks of … she worked closely with Ngoyi (who was…

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1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… of the Transvaal affiliate of the African People's Organisation (APO), the organisation founded by Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman in the Cape … of the Transvaal…

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1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

… leave the country in 1960 and to carry on the work of the organisation outside South Africa once they were settled. … Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the…

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… post of Secretary General. In 1958, Kaunda broke from the organisation and formed the Zambian Africa National Congress … after Zambia’s independence, serving…

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1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… Letele was elected to the ANC Executive Committee at the organisation's annual conference. He supported the concept of … from jail he was not allowed to…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… Party in 1934 and 1935, and recruited many women into the organisation. She helped organise workers in many different … March to the Union Buildings, but she…

B-0007783

Unknown-2019

Julia Nicol

Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…

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