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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… together to form the ANC Youth League. Dr A.B. Xuma at about the same time called together a group of African …

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… for, so do we … The British Government is much concerned about the Polesand has gone to war on that issue   but it has …

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1927-2019

Adelaine Florence Hain

… skills on the job. She also wrote popular news snippets about town events through the eyes of two fictional boys … A diminutive figure, barely five feet tall…

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Shirish Nanabhai

… he had put the escape out of his mind and “forgotten about it”. While sitting at the table of a senior officer, another walked in to talk about the…

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1793-1876

William Cock

… mouth on the west opened, giving a navigable stretch of about three- quarters of a mile inland from the sea. Cock … British Settler at Cape Town, and so…

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1872-1940

Abdullah Abdurahman

… government intervene in the anti-Asiatic legislation about to be tabled by the Union government. This move was … white supremacist policies and had few…

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1934-1985

Sipho Samuel Hashe

… to convene secret political classes to educate students about the Freedom Charter and the policy of non-racialism. …

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1956-1979

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu

… execution, various bodies became increasingly vocal about the death sentence, especially political executions. … She told the TRC that she had heard news…

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1881-1969

Daniël Francois Malherbe

… a return to faith, which is succeeded by another trilogy about pioneer life that praises the efforts of a young nation …

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1942-2020

George Hallett

… enacted scenes from the films, Hallett would be thinking about the camera angles, composition and dramatic lighting …

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1920-2004

Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale

… management for some years. He has protested vigorously about the lack of heating in the refugees’ rooms. Many of …

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1925-1985

Alex la Guma

… La Guma’s next work was The Fog of Season’s End, a novel about ordinary people’s underground struggle against racial …

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20 January-1967

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)

… a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young African men of his … to be remembered on his own terms. The act…

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1913-1999

de Villiers Graaff

… colleagues gave up in frustration, exclaiming: "Div talks about nothing except his Friesians." In the 1948 NP landslide …

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1918

Shapurji Sorabji

… he joined the struggle, I must confess, I had my doubts about his ability to go through it. But he soon made his mark …

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1958-2021

Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy

… join the struggle for freedom to enrich himself or to brag about his struggle credentials. Dr Ponnusamy will be …

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1919

Olive Peace Landman

… Livingstone High, Cape Town, in 1944. After being informed about a forthcoming vacancy by Eric Ertnzen, a teacher and …

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1962-2007

Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza

… to inform and educate farm labourers in the Midlands about HIV. He also did fundraising work for the Jambo Arts …

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1974

Stella Nyanzi

… of twins), she is a medical anthropologist who has written about sexuality, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. She is also a …

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Mary Butcher Turok

… this conference she also formed a part of the discussions about African unity, the struggle for African independence …

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1895-1970

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… They proposed instead a consultative council consisting of about six or seven members who would advise the government on … to which he clung strongly. He…

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… that his friends at Queenstown ‘are as keen as mustard about you.’ Burton ended up running as the South African …

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1888-1956

Sonja Schlesin

… was never tired. --- Bapuji (Gandhi) has spoken volumes about Miss Schlesin in his History of Satyagraha in South …

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1967-1988

Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza

… (TRC) provided families the prospect of learning the truth about their relatives’ deaths. The TRC received amnesty …

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1952-1981

Krishna Rabilal

… it the language of the oppressor. He felt so strongly about this that he refused to study Afrikaans on principle. …

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1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… and reparation of the  damages and losses of war. About a quarter of a million burghers and Africans in the … with Milner and they engaged in lengthy…

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1946-2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala

… his wife greeting him at the door with, ‘Have you heard about Tiro? He’s been killed’ (Gwala, 1984). Gwala chose not … involve themselves in social conflict…

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1929-2017

Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada

… Men of Year Awards: Honoured Legend, 2016   Books by and about Ahmed Kathrada include: 1999 – Letters from Robben …

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1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… national Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) which he read about in a newspaper that his mother had brought home from … at the time, the police were informed…

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1780-1867

King Faku ka Ngqungqushe

… and Ngezana. The fight between the two Bomvana chiefs was about the rightful heir to the throne of chieftaincy which …

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