SAHO global search

1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… opened up spaces for possibility for future creative action in a context of production with very specific local …

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… Africa's business.” He believed firmly in affirmative action and black economic empowerment and he will always be …

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1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… as the Quakers. She is the recipient of the Peacemakers in Action Award, awarded by the Tanenbaum Centre for …

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… school boycotts by protesting against the Special Branch's action against teachers. She joined the National Union of …

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… for example sabotage as a substitute for peaceful action. In 1964 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage. He …

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Boy Mvemve

Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…

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1870-1945

Nadirshah Ardeshir Cama

Nadirshah Ardeshir Cama was born in Bombay in 1870. After passing the Intermediate Examination at the University of Bombay, he worked in the Bombay Port Trust…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… he sought other outlets for his talent. Responding to an appeal for teachers from Nigeria, Mphahlele left South Africa …

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… to see me. They asked me if I had been informed that my appeal had been dismissed. I told them I was not interested …

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… of Witwatersrand. 1985 - 1993 - Judge of the Court of Appeal in Botswana 1994 - Honorary Member of the Athens Bar … of Witwatersrand, Judge of the Botswana…

B-0007857

1955

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi

… already established himself in the ANC and Committee for Action and Solidarity for South African Students on campus. …

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1944-1998

Basil Coetzee

… Coetzee became a founding-member of Cape Town Musical Action for Peoples Power (MAPP) a music school in Cape Town. …

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Potlako Leballo

… made a trip to New York to petition for United Nations action against South Africa. In March 1963, a reckless move …

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… banning orders. In 1954 Hodgson served on the National Action Council of the historic 1956 Congress of the People . …

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1909-1972

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

… publication of the party pamphlet “What I mean by Positive Action” … “Positive Action” came to denote a tactical approach to challenging the … civil…

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1847-1914

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey

… fame through a series of victories, notably in the first action at Kraaipan. His relationship with Cronjé was uneasy … was largely De la Rey's brainchild, he…

B-0007987

1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

… campaign was a central part of the programme of mass action formulated around the  'native republic'  programme.) …

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1893-1962

Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma

… to pressure Xuma to endorse a militant programme of mass action. In December 1943, the Non-European Unity Movement … – had become entirely discredited. The…

B-0009245

1959

Mzwakhe Mbuli

… arrest in 1989.    On 1 January 2002, The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein  cut off three years of Mbuli’s … to Mbuli, most of his poetry“consists of…

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1860-1930

Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo

… wives and children, was causing so much suffering that action had to be taken to secure its abolition. It was … after the end of the Satyagraha, he joined…

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1958-1995

Nithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender

… agony of a mother is recorded in the desperate letters of appeal Nora Govender wrote to the President of South Africa, …

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1917-1993

Oliver Tambo

… ANCYL, with Tambo  as the scribe, prepared a Programme of Action, selecting tactics employed by other organisations in … Indian organisations, strikes by the…

B-0009119

1939-2022

Francis Wilson

… of the newsletter Mandela Initiative: Dialogue and action to overcome poverty and inequality.       …

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… after the minister of Justice recently stressed that action would be taken against people who opposed apartheid.' …

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1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… Lenin Club split over political theory and programme of action, especially in relation to the question of who will …

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1967-1991

Vuyani Mabaxa

… Diepkloof. This spurred on the youth of Diepkloof to take action. The Star newspaper of 15 October 1991 reported that …

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1955

Shirley Gunn

… on the organising committee of the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee  (CAHAC), the Housing Committee and she …

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… called for the mobilization of labour unions and strike action alongside his ally Gumede, whose close affiliations … side [it] can contribute strong fast…

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1920-2004

Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale

… and was kicked out because I was against poor education. I appeal to all non-members of the African National Congress …

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