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Aubrey Mokoena

… became concerned about the project, it did not attack the organisation directly. It did however use other means of …

B-0149453

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…

B-0068743

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…

B-0007792

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…

B-0007988

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…

B-0125809

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…

B-0008970

1946-2006

Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley

… manner. During the formation of South African Student Organisation (SASO), Moodley was accepted as one of the … prison in 1981and became a member of the…

B-0008636

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…

B-0064875

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…

B-0087605

1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… the youth) were highly receptive to the prospect of a new organisation that could carry their grievances against the … is also credited with launching the…

B-0007855

1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

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

B-0007851

1892-1977

Moses Kottler

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

B-0008275

1931-2016

Lulu Dube

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

B-0123096

1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

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

B-0080525

1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

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

B-0068468

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…

B-0148457

1952-1981

Krishna Rabilal

Krishna Rabilal was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). A quiet…

B-0151749

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…

B-0149489

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…

B-0141670

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…

B-0149242

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…

B-0150644

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…

B-0149460

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,…

B-0099557

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 ,…

B-0008503

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…

B-0008339

1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… was one of the first sitting MPs to join the ANC after the organisation was unbanned in 1990. He left the … Oliver Tambo  for braving arrest to meet the…

B-0009188

1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… (ANCYL) in about 1947 in Newclare and became one of the organisation's organisers. When the Strijdom government … returned to Tanzania, from where he was…

B-0067967

Myron Peter

… Peter also served as the founding member of the Natal Organisation of Video and Allied Workers which led to the … committee to set up and launch a Film and…

B-0008880

1913-1990

Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng

… Youth League (ANCYL). He later aligned himself with the organisation’s Africanist section, which was critical of its … and convicted in 1964 for promoting…

B-0080979

1926-1995

Joe Slovo

… of the Congress of Democrats in 1953 and represented the organisation on the national consultative committee of the … to a multi-party, post-apartheid…

B-0009082