SAHO global search

1927-2007

Theo Mthembu

… later at the Adams College at Amanzimtoti where he trained under the legendary Khabi Mngoma.  Mthembu became a …

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Pauline Podbrey

… London. Here Podbrey had to find work and raise a family under difficult conditions, as Naidoo had become very …

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1957

Kate O’Regan

… and several communities facing the threat of evictions under apartheid land policy. In 1988, she joined the …

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1903-1972

J B Marks

… leaders of the 1952 Defiance Campaign , Marks was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . He nevertheless took …

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1959

Thandi Modise

… received political education, sitting in open classrooms, under trees, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania . In a camp of four …

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1952

Popo Molefe

… was chairperson of the Soweto branch of AZAPO. He came under the influence of Joe Gqabi , Nelson Mandela and others, …

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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… the United States, the West Indies, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Under the previous South African government, Judge Kriegler …

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1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… was detained without trial in 1988, released and placed under restriction orders until the State of Emergency was …

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1920-2008

Brian Percy Bunting

… orders from 1952, he was detained in 1960 and placed under house arrest in 1962. But it was in 1963 that he was …

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1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… of “the brutality of the regime.” [6]  Mpofu was arrested under a law called “R252 of Ciskei” and was detained for … of the South African Allied Workers…

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1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… Manufacturers Limited in Mayville. He was a learner under a qualified machinist who was on piece work making … their evening classes at the Technical…

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Mary Malete

… South Africa (HOSPERSA), a hospital workers' trade union. Under the leadership of Frank Sexwale, the chairperson, …

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1923

Lucas Manyane Mangope

… December1977,the homeland celebrated "independence" under the leadership of Mangope and his Bophuthatswana …

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1955

Laura Jean Levetan

… a member of the NUSAS National Council. Laura was banned under the Internal Security Act in 1978, days before the …

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Hargreaves Nkosana Mbodla

… and Development) insisted that ‘the measures taken under the Native Administration Act have been promulgated at … From the book, Forgotten People - Political…

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Rebecca Bunting

… with her husband and Gana Makabeni . They were charged under the " Native Administration Act " for speeches made at …

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… her foster father died unexpectedly her mother was put under strain to support the family, and Head was sent away to … at St Monica’s while attending a…

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Violet Weinberg

… in an interview that her parents believed their house was under surveillance, which brought a lot of tension and fear. … was the first to be detained in…

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1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… Nkondo left Lorenco Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, then under Portuguese rule, to escape poverty and came to South … two days after his release he was re…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… was arrested at his office and detained at Marshall Square under the Ninety Day Act . Kantor was arrested in his office … attempt to prove criminal liability…

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1933

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

… immediately banished to his hometown of Phokwaneand banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . Mogoba was to report … Vester prison. As the transition…

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1929-2008

Billy Nair

… anti-election campaign of 1984. He was detained in August under section 29 of the internal Security Act, just before … of the ANC, Nair was detained in…

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1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… mission school on the banks of the Tyhume River. There, under the tutorship of Dr James Stewart, he studied for the … out to teach, he remained at Lovedale…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… 1960 he was supposed to graduate but he refused. He came under tremendous pressure from the university authorities for … and its affiliate APDUSA, who was…

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1940

James Edward April

… Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court in May 1971 on four counts under the Terrorism Act. Among the charges was that between … in February 1971 until his trial in…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… dedicated his working life fighting for basic human rights under apartheid, and since the collapse of apartheid, he has fought to ensure that those rights,…

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… League, which was headed by Dawood Seedat. The Call was under constant police scrutiny. Dawood Seedat was a most … pamphlets were circulated widely…

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1900-1979

Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers

… the Dictionary of the Afrikaans Language (WAT) from 1927 under the editorship of Professor JJ Smith. After that she is … During this time she continued her…

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David Bruce

… national military service and he refused. They placed him under arrest. He was charged and released on his own … to imprisonment for refusing to do military…

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1942-1987

Job Shimankana Tabane

… his family was forcibly removed to Diepkloof in Soweto under the Group Areas Act. At the beginning of 1961, he … followed the trial. He also began reading…

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