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1954

Reggie Williams

… US. He created the Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid organisation, which raised awareness about South African …

B-0153000

1938-1996

Motlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho

… of Lesotho in 1966. His Majesty has addressed the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU – now known as the African … – reliance. His Majesty was Patron to…

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1888-1956

Sonja Schlesin

… Millie Polak, (Henry Polak’s wife), decided to start an organisation for Indian women called the Transvaal Indian … Schlesin was invaluable to the law…

B-0068392

1947-2006

Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga

… Malinga was ranked at No. 7 by the WBA (the only other organisation at the time was the WBC, i.e. World Boxing …

B-0100310

1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… Despite being banned Du Toit helped found a welfare organisation known as Kupugani in Soweto . To enable her to …

B-0008034

1918-1975

Thomas Patrick Murray

… Workers' delegation to the annual International Labour Organisation Conference in Geneva on two occasions. He was a …

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… to the National Republican Party to clarify the political organisation's aims, but Hertzog and  Dr D F Malan  rejected …

B-0067328

1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… Moki Cekisani and others initiated the formation of an organisation similar to the Committee of Ten of Soweto. They … President Jacob Zuma at the reburial of…

B-0068165

1963

Robert John McBride

… and helped form the Bechet branch of the Azanian Students' Organisation (AZASO), a student wing of the  United …

B-0067934

1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… student politics (as a member of the South African Student Organisation – SASO ) that she began to actively confront …

B-0080909

1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… African National Congress (ANC) allied Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) , while Blanche was the family …

B-0080449

1935-1975

Edson Sithole

Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was…

B-0153551

1968-2019

Carol Moses

Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…

B-0149622

1904-1980

S .G. Sekano Ntoane

S.G. Sekano Ntoane was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria. He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran…

B-0149450

1923-2011

William Tilden McClain

… African National Congress and befriended members of the organisation. In 1960 he went to Kenya to do research and …

B-0148783

Theophilus Tshangela

Theophilus Tshangela was banished from Kwamaleida in the Amadiba Location, Bizana District [Eastern province, now Eastern Cape] to the Frenchdale Native Trust…

B-0149247

1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… and became active in the South African Students Organisation (SASO)   regional secretary in the Eastern Cape …

B-0148068

1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… Party as well as of the far right Ossewa Brandwag , an organisation he remained loyal to even when he became prime … (OB, translated as Oxwagon Sentinel) and…

B-0009211

1930-2013

Ismail Jacob Mohamed

… it through critical NEUM eyes. It seemed to him that the organisation’s emphasis on national liberation failed to … He delivered an address at a South…

B-0148778

1965

Lesetja Kganyago

Lesetja kganyago was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, in Gauteng Province in 1965. At the age of five, he moved to Northern Province, now known as…

B-0149216

Stephen Zelwane Nkadimeng

… was one of the founders and key leaders of Fetakgomo (an organisation of migrant workers and peasantsof …

B-0148525

1979-2019

Leigh Davids

… Movement Building in South Africa from the transfeminist organisation, Social Health Empowerment (SHE). At the age of …

B-0150017

1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… of the African National Congress (ANC), which was a banned organisation in South Africa.[8] In February 1974, Jenkin and … beliefs united them, and "as…

B-0008202

1942-1993

Chris Hani

… active in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), an organisation founded in 1921 but which had dissolved itself … of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe to…

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1953-1982

Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

… In late 1981, Aggett was detained for his role in labour organisation. He was taken to Pretoria Central Prison and …

B-0007775

1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… the  African National Congress  (ANC), which informed the Organisation of African Unity's documents on negotiations …

B-0008505

1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… delegation that held talks with the liberation organisation in May at Groote Schuur in Cape Town, from which …

B-0007948

1931-2012

Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson

… life imprisonment. As  founding member  and director of an organisation that sought to pursue justice and human rights …

B-0007935

2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Mbeki and three student leaders of South African Student Organisation (SASO), Taole Mokoena, Leslie Gumede and Ralph …

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