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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… to a two-year term under the Suppression of Communism Act. He fled to Swaziland and became part of the PAC's …

B-0068237

1958-2004

Khotso Seatlholo

… arrested Seatlholo and charged him under the Terrorism Act . He had come into the country to recruit and garner …

B-0074550

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… tents on land that was reserved for whites in 1946 as an act of passive resistance. After studying at the University …

B-0078551

1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… an attempt to extract information about her husband. The authorities were furious at the brazen escape of these four … 87 years old in Cape Town surrounded…

B-0095164

1986

Dikkie Mxolisi Johannes Jacobs

… crackdown under the state of emergency. The prison authorities stated that he was found hanged in his prison …

B-0153077

1942-2019

Nomhle Nkonyeni

Nomhle Nkonyeni was born on  9 April 1942 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. She started her acting career at the age of 19 years. In 2002, she…

B-0149590

1935-2009

Cassim Saloojee

… teaching, which he had come to dislike as a result of the Bantu Education system. Saloojee began to meet people that … leave. The family resisted, and said…

B-0068391

1955

Shirley Gunn

… by the security police in 1985 under the Internal Security Act and detained in solitary confinement without trial for … to Culemborg where was charged under…

B-0095599

1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… where he was a member of the Progressive Forum. In 1951, two of Dundee’s sons, Karrim Essack and Dr Limbada … to a banning order under the Suppression of…

B-0080477

1851-1930

William Henry Beaumont

… organising the Pietermaritzburg Reserves under the Militia Act. In 1902 he was appointed as a judge for the Natal … organized the Pietermaritzburg Reserves…

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Marapo Seopa

… to refer to her dead children when she was asked by the authorities about her children for purposes of issuing out …

B-0149246

1976

Fenuel Mogatusi

… July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed but he was …

B-0074827

1910-1960s

Jameson Gilbert Coka

… charged under war measure 145 and the Riotous Assemblies Act.he pleaded guilty to aiding an illegal strike and was …

B-0007951

1920

Isaac Osier Horvitch

… Party. After the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act he became Chairman of the Forum Club, a multi-racial …

B-0008177

1935-1981

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge

… and later convicted under the Suppression of Communism Act for his political activities in the ANC. He served a … years. In March 1976, he was detained under…

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1860-1930

Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo

… under the Ordinance (which later became the Asiatic Act) and to go to jail if necessary. Thambi Naidoo seconded … an agreement that led to the amendment of…

B-0008737

Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa

… was restricted to Pretoria under the Internal Security Act . Mkhatshwa was detained from August to December 1976, … East, Pretoria home. He was detained…

B-0148027

1948

Sumboornam Pillay

… families lived together peacefully before the Group Areas Act tore the community apart. Her father had a major … However, she soon found herself unemployed…

B-0150469

1901

John Stephen Gomas

… the "hostility clause" of the 1927 Native Administration Act.In1931 the Communist Party was in steady decline due to …

B-0080091

1979

Lewis Baker

… charged on three counts under the Suppression of Communism Act ””that they belonged to the illegal SACP, that they took … it was the first case since the…

B-0149398

1949

Lex Mpati

Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…

B-0149238

1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… in Johannesburg under section 29 of the Internal Security Act, following police allegations of an ANC/SACP/ Umkhonto we … Initially charged under the Arms…

B-0065611

1932

Amy Thornton

… where she actively campaigned against the Group Areas Act and Bantu Education Act . Furthermore, she was also involved in study classes …

B-0095146

1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… at St. Mary’s Mission School in northern Namibia until 1951. He then left for  Cape Town  in 1951 and was employed as a railway police officer. In Cape ……

B-0095996

Dr Morris Zwi

South African born, living in London for the past 22 years. He began working in social documentary photography through his need to 'bear witness' and to record…

B-0149762

Dr Morris Zwi

Morris Zwi was born in South Africa and later moved to the United Kingdom. He began working in social documentary photography through his need to 'bear witness…

B-0149600

1995

Enver Hassim

… Owners Association and the Cane Growers Association. In 1951, Hassim attended the Unity Movement’s 7th Conference … allowed to communicate until permission…

B-0080308