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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

… from attending gatherings and in November 1962 was placed under 24-hour house arrest. He subsequently left South Africa …

B-0008464

1874-1965

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

… the train that he was travelling in was ambushed by forces under the command of General Louis Botha. He escaped and …

B-0007943

1910

Stephen Tefu

… sentenced to three years' imprisonment in 1961 on a charge under the Suppression of Communism Act. …

B-0068545

1945

Professor Raymond Suttner

… between 1975 and 1983. He was detained without trial under state of emergency between 1986 to 1988. He was …

B-0068511

1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… the Free State as scrum half against the All Blacks under Maurice Brownlee.Bram Fischer proceeded to study law … Party (SACP). As was to be expected, Bram…

B-0008069

1933

Mildred Lesiea

… and record the experiences of those who had been banished under the state’s draconian security legislation, together … Lesiea’s return to Cape Town, she…

B-0083813

1956

Jennifer Schreiner

… Schreiner, along with thirteen others, were detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act . Her … Schreiner, along with thirteen others, were…

B-0093139

1958-2004

Martin Tose

… classes at the Open School in Braamfontein, Johannesburg under the guidance of Nathaniel Mokgosi between 1975 and … three years until 1980 at Katlehong Art…

B-0122965

1956

Azhar Cachalia

… 1986 he became an attorney, and was detained for six weeks under the State of Emergency Regulations. A few months after … Branch of the South African Police…

B-0007911

1846-1921

James Smith Morland

… he was given a celebratory return dinner by SASA, then under the Presidency of George Crosland Robinson (qv.). His … of the English landscape tradition that…

B-0008646

1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… life inspired artistic ambitions, she studied art briefly under Edward Roworth. Laubser was elected a member of … London, and began her studies at the Slade…

B-0008300

1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… in Mkar, Nigeria , in a leper colony of 16000 people. Under M.P. Loedolff and his wife, this leper colony served … the University of Pretoria's Neurology…

B-0008271

1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… In November, 1961 dos Santos and Joe Louw were arrested under the Immorality Act . They were charged and went to … to a lack of concrete evidence the pair…

B-0008018

1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… laws and exploitative conditions which people experienced under apartheid labour laws. He joined the African National … 13 years until his release by the new…

B-0068219

1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… South African Communist Party  (SACP), Altman was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . As a result she was … worked for the International Defence…

B-0007788

1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… (d.1986). Upon his return he continued his studies under Shaykh `Abdullah Taha Gamieldien (d.1946) and Shaykh … and external forces. Whilst doing his part…

B-0008144

1949

Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso

… still at school, Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes, Sydney Kumalo, Bill Hart and Ezrom …

B-0008497

1937

Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala

… self-taught although in 1964 he studied for a few months under Cecil Skotnes at Jubilee Art Centre and in 1965 and …

B-0008355

Alex Moumbaris

… was later released without charge. Moumbaris was charged under the Terrorism Act in January 1973. He was found guilty … Trade unionist,charged under the…

B-0068118

1948

Berney Perez

… as an office machine technician while studying photography under the tutelage of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez …

B-0093702

1977

Lawrence Ndzanga

… South African Congress Trade Unions (SACTU),was detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 18 November 1976. … detained in 1969 and twice tried and…

B-0144826

1938

Viacheslav “Ivan” Shiryaev

… in Angola, as the First Chief of the Soviet Specialist, under the ANC leadership attached to the ANC Regional … in Zimbabwe. In total, 6 000 ANC combatants…

B-0149421

1909-1972

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

… youth structure, independent of the UGCC, and a newspaper under the name ‘Accra Evening News’ taking aim at local elite … to encourage local farmers through…

B-0125505

Sekgopela Mashile

… a threat to public order’, (and he) was immediately placed under house arrest.  In 1978, while still formally under arrest, he successfully ran for the…

B-0149252

1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… at the brazen escape of these four political prisoners under their very noses. Humiliated by the escape, the police … country. Their children Peta was six,…

B-0095164

1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… and 1960s, is an indictment of the inhumane conditions under which black South Africans were forced to live during … to expose to the world the stark…

B-0007955

1966

Bellington Mampe

… at the Worcester police station.The Act he was detained under and the cause of death were undisclosed. Although Mr …

B-0074813

1913-1970

Debi Singh

… were dropped in December 1957. Afterwards he was placed under ban and was again imprisoned during the 1960 emergency. …

B-0009064

1982

Victor M Mgadi

… according to the Nelson Mandela Foundation was "buried under the name Victor Mokagetla (grave 802) from …

B-0076960