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1942

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

… Going into exile After the banning of the ANC, the organisation decided it would be better for the Mbeki to go … wedding, according to ANC rules, had to be…

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1877-Unknown

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…

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1933-1980

Tennyson Xola Makiwane

Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…

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Gibson Magwaza

Gibson Magwaza, from Nongoma District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] was banished for coming into conflict with Chief Cyprian Dinizulu and the state.  A document…

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1933

Rebecca Lan

Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…

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1926-2024

Zuleikha Mayat

… Women’s Cultural Group (WCG), a forward-thinking women’s organisation that sought to bring about social change. The … and religions annually (the WCG was the…

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1956-2010

Cheryl Ellen Gillwald

Cheryl Ellen Gillwald was born in Welkom in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 December 1956. She matriculated in 1974 at Roedean in…

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1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… After his release, Myeza joined the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO). He was elected as to serve in the AZAPO …

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1943

Sindiwe Magona

… capacities to the work of the United Nations (UN), an organisation she served for 20 years. Even in retirement, she …

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1930-2007

Elize Botha

… African Academy for Science and Art and also became the organisation’s first woman chairperson two years later. She …

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1920-2008

Brian Percy Bunting

… He was received an award from the International Organisation of Journalist in 1960 and the Lenin Centenary …

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1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… She was elected Deputy Secretary General of the ANC at the organisation’s 53rd National Conference at Mangaung , Free …

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1940-1981

John Marinus Ferus

… (ANC) flag was openly raised for the first time since the organisation was banned in 1960. …

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1933

Audrey Coleman

Audrey Coleman was born in 1933. When she was twenty years old she married businessman Max Coleman. They had four sons, and became active members of the…

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James Maci

James Maci, from the Maci Tribal Area, Harding District, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] was banished on 12 October 1959 to the Kalkspruit Native Trust Farm No. 812,…

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William Mosehle Sekhukhune

… the state. He was accused of being a leader of a secret organisation that fermented opposition and incited murder and …

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1966

Fred Khumalo

… a member of PEN SA – a branch of the PEN International organisation – which is a worldwide organisation of writers that aims to grow and strengthen …

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1901-1975

Vivian Fitzsimons

For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… he occupied this position when the government banned that organisation. He took the government to court over the … social worker in the Students' Health and…

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… African Business Development Corporation, a non-profit organisation, which helped to create half-a-million jobs in …

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1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… in the formation of the Afrikaner Volkswag, a conservative organisation that hoped to rescue Afrikaner cultural identity …

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1950

Peter Jones

… launch the campus branch of the South  African Students' Organisation (SASO), in 1970. This biography is an extract …

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1915-1984

Thelma Gutsche

… member of the Simon van der Stel Foundation, a non-profit organisation that was established in April 1959 and sought to …

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1915-1972

William Frederick Nkomo

… Dag Hammarsköld, Secretary-General of the United Nations Organisation, visited South Africa and Nkomo and  Dr A.B. …

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1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

…  when it was formed in 1959, but played a role in the organisation. He attended the founding meeting that was held …

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; Sasol; Schlesinger Organisation, London, UK; SANG; Stuyvesant Foundation, …

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… activists,he joined the South African Colored People's Organisation (SACPO) in 1957.A period in the early 1960s he …

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1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… school. He joined the South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) in 1963 and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in …

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1935

Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs

… the African National Congress (ANC) , and helped draft the organisation's Code of Conduct and statutes. After recovering …

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1966

Jodi Bieber

… at the Market Theatre photographic workshop, a non-profit organisation founded by David Goldblatt. Her photographic …

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