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1936-2009

Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils

Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936.  She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited Durban, to visit his…

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1935-1981

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge

… of the apartheid government‘s death squads. In 1996, 15 years later the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and …

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…

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1940-2013

Adrian Leftwich

… on the use of explosives. The police left, but returned 15 minutes later to arrest him. He was taken to Caledon … After all, I had remained in my flat for…

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1934

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla

… very first campaign he actively participated in was the 1950 May Day strike, in protest of the Suppression of …

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1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… a Portuguese fort which was within Ndongo territory [15] . The treaty quickly fell apart however. Queen Njinga … Cambridge University Press. Page 207. ↵ [14]…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… United States of America (USA). In 1958 he exhibited 15 paintings at the Second African Studies Association …

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1913-1979

Mary Moodley

… gatherings and meeting with any other banned person. The 15 years of banning, the loss of her son, and the exiling of …

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1963

Jeremy Vearey

… his students for that day. [3] He was put on trial with 15 others for terrorism. Due to the cell structure, they did …

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1930-2013

Amina Cachalia

… Following three consecutive banning orders amounting to 15 years of house arrest, her banning ended in 1978.  She …

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1955-1991

Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo

… everyone as “mzala, mzala”.) In 1972, at the age of 15, he was detained without trial for his role in a school …

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1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant,…

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1932-2008

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… 1948 - Tate Gallery, London, South African Art Exhibition 1950 - Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg, Retrospective …

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… visits contravened the provisions of the Group Areas Act  (1950) he was arrested. It was at this stage that Clegg met …

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… who had been Mphahlele’s classmate at St Peter’s.  In the 1950’s, Mphahlele wrote a series of stories published in Drum …

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… you fight,” he said of joining the liberation effort. In 1950 he completed his law degree at the University of …

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1910-1977

Percy John "Jack" Hodgson

… and was party to the Torch Commando campaigns of the early 1950’s protesting the unconstitutional Separate …

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1924-2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

… much-loved older brother, Michael, died at the age of 15. It is suspected that he died after using an insecticide …

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1927

William Sinclair Winship

… the Association of European Paediatric Cardiologists for 15 years. In 1973, he was the chairperson of the Steering …

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1924-2009

Richard Owen Dudley

… Claremont where he became Headboy. In 1940, at the age of 15, Dudley enrolled at the University of Cape Town to study …

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Marion Monica Sparg

…  until her court appearance at the Rand Supreme Court on 15 August 1986. Sparg admitted to implanting and exploding …

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1936-2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

… Winnie in 1977: in the early hours of the morning on May 15, a police contingent arrived at her doorstep to take her … Mount Nelson Hotel on 13th September…

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1918-2009

Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng

… Town in early 1930s. Mafekeng left school at the age of 15 to support the family.  Her first job was at a “canning …

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1953

Ashley La Grange

"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…

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