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1836-1914

Joseph Chamberlain

… his supporters portrayed the Liberal Party’s ambivalence about the merits of a war against the Boers as tantamount to … in South Africa After the peace was…

B-0123405

1949

Lefifi Tladi

… the music score on Giant Steps, a 2005 documentary film about his life. In the same year, he released another CD – a … host poetry and art workshops in South…

B-0122542

1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… who were based in Johannesburg at Dorkay House, which was about the only institution where free cultural activity was … and police had arrested him. Govender…

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1963

Jeremy Vearey

… at John Ramsey High School. His teachers taught him about black consciousness and were heavily influenced by the … teachers, Vearey was exposed to different…

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1877-Unknown

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala

… quite well-known. He was appointed ICU organiser-in-chief about 1922 but apparently did not remain long in this …

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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… who introduced Turner to Mewa Ramgobin and other activists about the same time as they were reviving the Natal Indian … a public outcry. Rick Turner’s…

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1936-1973

Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi

… South Africa. It was written specifically to speak to and about the realities facing young black south africans whilst …

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1891-1955

Dora Nginza

… known as Friends of Dora Nginza raised concerns about the state of her grave in the dilapidated cemetery. The …

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1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… to 1993. Adam was on the steering committee that brought about the National Women’s Coalition (NWC) and in addition …

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1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

… who was an aspiring boxer. Matlala was so passionate about boxing that he decided to turn professional in 1979. At …

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1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… Under M.P. Loedolff and his wife, this leper colony served about 78 clinics, some as far as 500km away. Kok was in …

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… to ‘indecency with the intent to commit immorality’. From about the middle of 1961 dos Santos worked for Helen Joseph , …

B-0008018

1970

Leleti Khumalo

… The Zulu (1999), written and directed by Mbongeni Ngema, about King Cetshwayo and the Battle of Isandlwana, fought …

B-0067755

1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… and no seats in Parliament.Mabasa  has been very vocal about his views, even travelling to the United States, …

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… Abrahams, Nxumalo had the sense that great things were about to happen in Africa and that a responsible and …

B-0068169

1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… 1952, Worcester had taken lead in the Western Cape, with about 800 defiers who signed up and Asa's home was the centre …

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1933

Rebecca Lan

… increasingly Zionistic after World War II . After learning about the movement in England, Norman Lourie founded Habonim … youth movement. Habonim aims to…

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1982

Jabulile Nyawose

… of Shadrack Maphumulo , in 1977, which they had read about in a daily newspaper.  The members of the cell feared that the police might discover the…

B-0149401

1955

Lloyd Spencer

… painters of the Dutch Golden Age. In the 1980s he wrote about photography for publications such as Ten-8 and New … liberation for Spencer which allowed him…

B-0149881

1922-2004

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

… persuade me to come back to Umtata. We had many arguments about this, and I patiently explained to her that politics … 2005. Makaziwe maintained that her…

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1959

Gideon Mendel

… working on Drowning World, an art and advocacy project about flooding, his personal response to our climate crisis. …                Living with Floodwaters,…

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… this description by a police informant: A girl of about 16 years of age, has a silly look, and appeared to me … who lived near your kraal, and if so state…

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1909

Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya

… was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe,the son of a …

B-0141672

Kausobson Kausob

… Yzerbek. Because the local inhabitants still complained about raids by Kausob and his followers, Warden again visited …

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Mohamed Farouk Asvat

… of his milieu, making him one of the few who can write about these traumatic times with such lucidity and lyricism. … University Of Albuquerque “Farouk Asvat…

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1933

Audrey Coleman

… be intimidated, she spoke openly to everyone that she met about the government’s efforts to prevent her from carrying …

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1963

Mike Hutchings

… a Kodak instamatic camera that his sister had when he was about 5 years old. He borrowed it and went to a game park, …

B-0149882

1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… defiance to the ban, on 25 June 1974 Myeza led a crowd of about 10 000 people at the Curries Stadium in Durban. In the …

B-0121056

Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… heard a voice urging him to pray. He did not know anything about praying except for having heard from the elders that …

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1929-2017

Emma Thandi Mashinini

… wrote a book, Strikes have Followed me all my Life, about her experiences in Pretoria Central Prison, Jeppe …

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