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1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… the emerging leadership of South Africa Students' Organisation (SASO),to whom he became an older advisor valued …

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1930

Zachius Botlhoko Molete

… by imprisoned PAC leaders to head the PAC's underground organisation in late 1960, Molete was re-arrested in 1961 and …

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… Dr Abdullah Abdurahman , leader of the African Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped to form in 1902. …

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18 May1940-2008

Alan Keith Brooks

Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…

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1941-2023

Stephanie Kemp

… Resistance Movement (ARM) , an underground sabotage organisation formed by Liberal Party (LP) members who did not … state repression. As the government…

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Pumzile Majeke

… Local chair of the  South African Students Organisation  (SASO) branch at Fort Hare University in …

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… transforming the ANC into a mass-based militant national organisation. In 1950, the government of DF Malan prepared to … State and was isolated from the day…

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1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… approached to head the newly founded Black Consciousness organisation Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO). He was elected President of the Azanian … African…

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1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… by Dr A. Abdurahman, leader of the African People's Organisation (APO), D Dwanya, Matthew Fredericks, John T … returned home convinced of the need for a…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… University. Eventually that study group became a student organisation - The Durban Students Union, which was … by 1960/63 were on the verge of forming a…

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1940

James Edward April

… for Coloureds, which the South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) resolved to boycott. He joined the South … van der Ross and others, to be a…

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1951

Patricia De Lille

… HIV/AIDS Trust She is also a member of both the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians against Corruption and the … was awarded the HIV/AIDS activist award…

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1953-2005

Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu

… Party. It was originally founded as a semi-clandestine organisation in 1984, but was officially launched in 1990. … Prince Mahlangu claimed that he was…

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… participate in the many campaigns and activities of the organisation. He was principled and hard working, so it came … year suspended sentence. As chair of…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… His role within the SACP, then the only multi-racial organisation in South Africa, made Horvitch a target for the … and with the help of Canon John Collins's…

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1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

… belief that Inkatha should become a democratic, mass-based organisation led to clashes with Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi …

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1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… in 1938 by Gregoire Boonzaier and Terence McCaw. The organisation’s aim was, among other things, to bring artists …

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1931-2016

Lulu Dube

… her death, the ANC released a statement to say that the organisation was mourning her passing and paid tribute to …

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1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… he met students from the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) who were beginning to articulate the …

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… in 1955, of which she became the first president. This organisation aimed at opposing group areas, resettlements and …

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1915-1989

Leo Linda Sihlali

Leo Linda Sihlali was born on 9 September 1915 in Butterworth. He went to primary school in Tarkastad where his mother worked as a teacher. On completion he…

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1927

S. Mac Lepolesa

As a trader in the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national ANC deputy-speaker. He was a…

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1918-1977

Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza

Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza was born in 1918 near Alice in the Ciskie,where his father was tribal  headman.After completing secondary education, he went to Cape Town…

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1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

… South Africa (CPSA) gatherings in 1942, later joined the organisation. This background inspired her deep involvement … as its chairperson alongside Mampe…

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1956

Susan Shabangu

Susan Shabangu was born on 28 February 1956. She attended Madibane High School in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). From 1980, she became involved in politics…

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1923

W Mati

Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in Port Elizabeth. Mati served…

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1956

Kay Hassan

… Manaka and his Creative Youth Association (CYA). The organisation provided participants with a studio to explore … part of the group Art in Motion,…

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1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… Women’s League of the SANNC in 1918. As leader of this organisation, she led a delegation to Prime Minister Louis … the Women’s Reform Club in Pretoria ,…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… his first steps towards SWAPO (South West African Peoples Organisation) within hours after he had walked into the … SWAPO. He initiated the NAMLAW Project, a…

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