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1931-2019

Babette Brown

… Years (1998), Combating Discrimination: Persona Dolls in Action (2001), and Equality in Action: A Way Forward with Persona Dolls (2008). Brown often …

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Unknown-2019

Julia Nicol

… Gays against Oppression/Organization of Lesbian and Gay Action (LAGO/OLGA). Together, the partners were instrumental …

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S. S. Tema

… the defeat of  A. B Xuma  and passage of the  Programme of Action in 1949 , he withdrew his support for what he regarded …

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… played a leading role in forming the Chatsworth Housing Action Committee (CHAC), an affiliate of the Durban Housing Action Committee (DHAC) that built non…

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… CJ held that the Act was lawful and enforceable. On appeal, the Appellate Division (AD) under Centlivres CJ …

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1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… and 12 years respectively, the judgment was rescinded on appeal, and all the defendants were freed on 15 December 1989 …

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Mkhubo Mngomezulu

… to testify for fear of his or her lives, which made legal action difficult.  The administration had fallen apart due to …

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Mzondeki Makhunga

… to testify for fear of his or her lives, which made legal action difficult.  The administration fell apart due to the …

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William Tyabashe

William Tyabashe, Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana andMagade Madapu, all from the Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], wereissued with banishment…

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1976

Bhungwana Saul Mngomezulu

… to testify for fear of their lives, which made legal action difficult.  No one was also willing to be acting …

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… met with the family to explain and apologise for this action. However, security police amnesty applicants denied … Clement Payi, Lucky Qulu, carried out…

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1950

Peter Hain

… In 1969 Hain helped to introduce the tactics of direct action to the sports boycott movement.Between 1969-1970 he …

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1949-2014

Jabu Sithole

… Sandile Thusi, Ndaba Gcwabaza and others in the Joint Rent Action Committee (JORAC) and the Durban Housing Action Committee (DHAC) organising communities…

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1933

Rebecca Lan

Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…

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Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana

Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana, Magade Madapu and William Tyabashe, from Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], were issued with banishment orders on…

B-0148504

1862-1919

Louis Botha

… Peace Conference at the end of World War I. A great man of action, he was renowned for his simplicity, humanity, quick … political party, it was based on…

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1928-2009

Suliman Moosa Esakjee

… the Congress of the People and Secretary of the Transvaal Action Committee in 1955. He also served as the Secretary of … to defend the people of Sophiatown…

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1926-1996

Harold Wolpe

Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…

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1876-1932

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

… and produced three books, including a detailed and moving appeal against the Land Act, Native Life in South Africa, … of the SANNC deputation that travelled…

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… and journalists. In 1989, Nofemela made a last-minute appeal for clemency the day before in order to escape being …

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… from Christian Aid would soon be sent. As a result of this appeal Thompson was arrested and detained and by the time his …

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1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

… course, no trial, no public hearing and no possibility of appeal. Mafeking’s banishment occurred as a result of the …

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1867-1946

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

… a deputation to be sent to England to protest the Bill and appeal for help against it, Gumede strongly opposed the move, … War I brought about renewed hopes…

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1961

Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng

… In April 2000, he was appointed a Judge of the Labour Appeal Court, followed by his appointment as the Judge …

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1925-2010

Ethel Walt

… Trust, and the driving force behind the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC) , an organisation committed to … in a car accident two weeks prior. Always a…

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1977

Aaron Khoza

… who suffered death or distress as a result of police action during the 1976 student disturbances.He died in a …

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1938-1982

Joseph Zenzele Mavi

… council crushed the strike,which was the largest labor action against a single employer in South Africa …

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Mark Shinners

… Congress(PAC) . This was shortly after the PAC Positive Action Campaign against pass laws , which led to the …

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1963

Deseni Soobben

… UDF , violence torn  KZN  Midlands and civil protest action which were distributed across the world. She …

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1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… increased his political activities through the church. His appeal quickly spread beyond the 2.8 million "Coloured … said it was a matter of urgency that they…

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