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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… forces captured him. He was duly tried and sentenced to death on 9 August 1968 before being imprisoned at the Khami …

B-0068219

1939-2024

Breyten Breytenbach

… alone in a cell directly adjoining Pretoria Central's death row. Resident in Paris, he currently divides his time …

B-0007886

1933

Allister Sparks

… Apartheid opponent, Steve Bantu Biko , had been beaten to death by the police in 1977. He later exposed how the …

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… left South Africa for Britain where he lived until his death in 1979. In 1998 a film about Williams titled ‘ The man …

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1795-1840

King Dingane ka Senzangakhona

… from which he reigned until 1840. Following the death of both Shaka and Mhlangana and Dingane’s subsequent … due to return shortly to receive the news of…

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1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… water’. Verwoerd became Prime Minister in 1958 after the death of J.G. Strijdom, realising his republican dream two … at his desk in the House of Assembly…

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1933

Audrey Coleman

… Commission (TRC) on the work the detention and death of people under the Apartheid government. …

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Magade Madapu

… in the burning down of approximately 193 huts, one death and several injuries between 30 April and 3 May 1960. …

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Mzondeki Makhunga

… of Ntunja Mngomezulu in this area. In 1965, after the death of Chief Zombizwe, Ntunja Mngomezulu was appointed …

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William Tyabashe

… in the burning down of approximately193 huts, one death and several injuries between 30 April and 3 May 1960. …

B-0149260

Jack Monamudi Matsepe

… by ‘leftist elements.’  It had already led to the death of Lucas Scott, a ‘Bantu Information Assistant’ in the …

B-0148450

1976

Bhungwana Saul Mngomezulu

… related to his banishment order, in 1965, after the death of Chief Zombizwe, Ntunja Mngomezulu was appointed …

B-0148443

1966

Fred Khumalo

… Kunene and Paddy Harper), The Longest March, Dancing the Death Drill, and the short story collections, Talk of the … in 2007 for the Alan Paton Award and in…

B-0149713

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

1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… by Vorster and his wife. He was the AP candidate in the 1948 election, but because of his association with the OB and … out penalties for sabotage ranging…

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Esmé Berman

… Los Angeles but returned to Johannesburg in 2003 after the death of her husband. Another book of note by Berman is …

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1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… build a rest house for wayfarers in his memory after his death in 1904. His wife passed away in 1905. Joosub never had …

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1930-2005

Hamilton Naki

… apparently hinted at Naki's involvement shortly before his death in 2001, and Naki himself claimed, at one stage, to …

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Dawid Kruiper

… of the North Council, Gordon Cassim, said Kruiper's death was a great loss to the Khoi San nation and South …

B-0087604

1950

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

… qualities. Saoli continued producing work until his death on the night of 20 May 1995. Saoli’s works can be found …

B-0008985

1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… referred to as the Ogoni Nine. Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death. And despite international protestation regarding the …

B-0098638

1921-1985

Florence Mophosho

… she died in Lusaka on Women's Day, 9 August 1985. Her death was a great loss to the ANC and liberation struggle in …

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1803-1894

Rev. Aldin Grout

… in Natal following the  Great Trek . Following Dingane’s death in 1840, Grout set out to obtain permission from Mpanda …

B-0008127

1948-2019

Stephen Joel Chifunyise

… Stephen Joel Chifunyise [i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe …

B-0149653

1969

Jacob Monakgotla

… after his detention. A district surgeon certified that his death was from natural causes(thrombosis) and no inquest was …

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Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana

… in the burning down of approximately 193 huts, one death and several injuries between 30 April and 3 May 1960. …

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1928-2007

Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)

… acting Chief of the Ndebele on three occasions until his death on 6 June 1964, bought Leeuwkraal on behalf of the … the most trying times of the incessant…

B-0150936

1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… was a fearless fighter for freedom, human rights and his death had weakened South Africa’s democracy, political … said on Wednesday [22 June 2011] after the…

B-0007798

1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the …

B-0123071

1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… he remained in exile for 30 years. Ten years after the death of his first wife Selina, Kunene married his second …

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