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1941-1997

Welcome Mandla Koboka

… Fort Hare. In the 1990s Koboka taught art at the Federated Union of Black Artists and in Orlando, Soweto . …

B-0098965

1961

Janet Mary Cherry

… Cherry was elected General Secretary of the  National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). At that time, she … also served as a voluntary worker for the…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… as General Secretary of the Transvaal African Teachers' Union (TATU), thereby maintaining a lively contact with … articles for publication in the official…

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1927-2005

Kalushi Drake Koka

… resign. In 1972 Koka established the Black Allied Workers' Union  (BAWU) after the BCM-aligned South African Students’ … Organization  (SASO) resolved to…

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1950

Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper

… Black universities move away from the radical  National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS). In 1969 Cooper was … In July 2012, Dr Cooper received the…

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1929

Peter Hlaole Molotsi

… Organisation (ASO). There was the Cape Peninsula Students Union (CPSU), the Cape African Students Association (CASA), the Natal African Students Union (NASD)…

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1939

Marcus Solomon

… Island. Solomon played rugby for the City Suburban Rugby Union, which was Christian Coloured, in contrast to the Muslim Western Province Rugby Union. However…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… the UK and was a member of the Transport General Workers’ Union while working as a bus conductor in London. He was …

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1959-1985

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

… also the CP. Their father was a member of the Workers Union in the 1960s, he was hung in 1964.  Nomkhosi was a …

B-0008564

1955

Gana Makabeni

…  (ANC). Using as a nucleus the African Clothing Workers' Union, of which he was secretary from 1928 to 1955, he led …

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… the area. Bertha was a member of the Industrial Workers’ Union (ICU) and took part in campaigns against passes for …   Tailor, member of the Industrial…

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1950-2017

Glynn Griffiths

… started a strike by walking across the “us and them” union demarcation line in the darkroom, having no knowledge of the strength of union control in the…

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1966-2012

Sicelo Shiceka

… organiser for the Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers' Union and a year later, he was elected provincial secretary. … 1989: Organiser, Paper, Printing,…

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1861-1951

Sefako Mapogo Makgatho

… the key figure in the formation of the African Political Union (APU) and the Transvaal Native Organisation, both of … native commissioner in Marabastad, near…

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1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

… the youngest person chosen president of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS).In june 1980 he was …

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

… 1925 he joined the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  of  Clements Kadalie  and soon became one of its …

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1895-1962

Elliot Tonjeni

… and was active in the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union and the  African National Congress . He left the CPSA … active in the Industrial and…

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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… "praise-songs". Vilakazi became the first African in the Union to receive the degree of doctor of literature. He died …

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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… KwaZulu-Natal) and continued as an organiser for a textile union and as member of the ANC. He became a resident of …

B-0008255

1954

William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr

… [v] . After this, Hofmeyr went on to join the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) where he became … the NUSAS Wages Commission, where he…

B-0068071

1901-1969

Phillip Qipu Vundla

… mid-1940s he was an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union and also served on the National Anti-Pass Council in … Organiser for the African Mineworkers…

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1917-2004

Villa Baker

… political activities were shaped by events in the Miners Union. Her biological father`s estate provided money for high … the local shop steward for the…

B-0097304

1934-2011

Abdool Kader Hassim

… of a group at Natal University called the Durban Students Union. At University, he was actively involved in politics. … By 1964, he was a member of  African…

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1937-2002

Justice Gizenga Mpanza

… Durban in 1954, he went to Lakhani House, where the trade union offices where situated. Here he met Stephen Dlamini who … (ZIPRA), an armed wing of the…

B-0067866

1955

Shirley Gunn

… work, she became involved activities of the trade union movement in the Clothing Workers’ Union. Gunn became part of community organisations that …

B-0095599

1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… of law and order and with the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA) and the Non-European Unity … majority of the leaders of the African…

B-0080477

2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… (SOYA) and when APDUSA ( The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa ) was established in the 1960s … to teaching. He became an active member of…

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Violet Weinberg

… refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti-Semitism led to discrimination and … political activism started in 1930 at the…

B-0095161

1956

Sydney Sekwati Choma

… ) since July 1975. He received military training in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1976 and was …

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