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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… (from which the Ladysmith group took its name). In the mid-1950s, Nkabinde established himself to the EMI Studios and …

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… the African Iron and Steel Workers’ Union. By the early 1950s she was an active trade unionist and shop steward for … against the extension of passes to…

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Elliot Shabangu

… committees for house-to-house visits during the early 1950s. In the late 1960s Shabangu became a member of SACTU’s …

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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… Youth League (ANCYL) when it was found in 1944. In the 1950s he was very active in the ANC'S unsuccessful campaign …

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1906-1967

George John Golding

… took a lead in challenging the government's efforts in the 1950s to remove Coloured voters from the common voters' roll. …

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1925-1987

Stanley Basil Lollan

… few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South … Coloured People's Organisation in…

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1925

Tamsanqa Tasque Tshume

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited … in New Brighton location in Port…

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1946-2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala

… passed in 1950. As he matured to adolescence through the 1950s and the early 1960s, the Nationalist controlled … Act, Act No 45 were among the many acts…

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s. Together with Billy Nair , Dlamini also ran trade union classes in Durban in the early 1950s,…

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

… Ngudle returned to Cape Town. Sometime during the 1940s or 1950s Ngudle witnessed bulldozers demolish black-owned homes … way for a White suburb. It was at…

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1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… in the Natal African National Congress (ANC)in the 1950s,and a defendant for the entire. He attended Marianhill … doctor, national treasurer of the ANC Youth…

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Dan Tloome

… He remained a leader in this federation until the mid-1950s, also serving for some time as secretary of the African …

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… the finest pieces of social and labour journalism of the 1950s. Having grown up in a politically conscious home, … organiser and, like her, a communist…

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1918-2000

Ismail Chota Meer

… which he completed in 1946 and qualified as an attorney in 1950s. He became in involved in radical politics when he …

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1919

Isaac Zakes Nkosi

… marabi and kwela are the most important. Founded in the 1950s, mbaqanga soon took on a political dimension. Zakes … recorded an album titled Our Kind of Jazz…

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… ship taking evacuee children to South Africa. In the early 1950s, she married the Russian emigrant photographer Leon … through his petitioning at the UN in…

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1939-2018

Hugh Masekela

… in the harsh political climate of South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s. Masekela’s music therefore portrays the …

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1923

James “Jobe” Hadebe

… During the ANC boycott of Bantu Education schools in the 1950s, he played a leading part in efforts to organise … Provincial Secretary of the ANC, in the…

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1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… beverages at the time were sold in a “¼ pint”. During the 1950s, Quarter was a member of the Transvaal Indian Youth … played in supporting the liberation…

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1923-2013

Denis Mayer

… Bolts in Boksburg, part of the Anglo-Vaal Group. In the 1950s he marched in the Torch Commando with fellow South … of the Security Branch that he was a…

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Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to … and the apartheid state came into the…

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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… members by appealing to them for African unity. The 1950s saw an increasing working together between the African … village called Pomeroy in Northern Natal…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… Pop Festival. Galeta first met Hugh Masekela in the late 1950s when he was a member of a group called ‘The Jazz …

B-0068433

1928

James Randolph Vigne

… in the radicalization of the Liberal Party in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He became a founder member of the …

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1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… 1 ). This series of photographic essays, set in the 1950s and 1960s, is an indictment of the inhumane conditions … “Soweto – A South African Myth -…

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… surname. He got into property development and in the late 1950s He met his first wife, Lillian Jacobs. Stein was …

B-0064870

1931

Raymond Ackerman

… people miss out on, is social involvement. Way back in the 1950s and 1960s, people were talking about this, where as …

B-0007770

1927

C. M Kobus

… the Cape before qualifying as a lawyer in 1954. In the mid-1950s he served as national secretary of the  All African …

B-0008268

1920-2004

Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale

… He married, and settled in Jabavu, Soweto . During the 1950s, Sejake was a leading member of the South African … Sejake joined the ANC and was active…

B-0094641

1908

Edgar Arthur Deane

… of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the 1950s. In 1962 he attended an international labor conference …

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