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BiographyArthur William Blaxall
… clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the early 1960s. He came to South Africa …
BiographyLeslie Massina
… who had been gain access into the African National Congress (ANC) at the time of the 1918 "bucket strike", but … 1953 he became treasurer of the Transvaal…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
… his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) … in 1946 to 1948.He was an activist…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… inevitably became involved in the revived Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1970, serving on its executive from the … contributed significantly to the popular…
BiographyGopallal Hurbans
… Vice-President and executive member of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from 1953-1956 and chairman of the Natal … of the NIC and of the Joint Executive…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… the successful negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP) in the early …
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
… worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took place. In 1956, 156 Congress…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a … hometown of Aliwal North. He later…
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
… of Fort Hare, Sigcau joined the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) . She graduated with a BA … who is a member of the national executive…
Potlako Leballo
… studies and became an organiser for the African National Congress Youth League in Lovedale. Following a student strike … his strongly worded attacks on the …
BiographyGeorge Naicker
… He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 … five years. Apart from being a member of…
BiographyFatima Seedat
… Indian community and became a member of the Natal Indian Congress . When the Indian Congress joined forces with the African National Congress (ANC) as a…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure … 1954, he undertook much of the preparatory work…
ArchiveA statement of the African National Congress of South Africa delivered at a Conference of the Continuation Committee of the Lisbon International Conference in support of the peoples of southern Africa, London, 21-23 March 1978
… A statement of the African National Congress, delivered by Secretary General, Alfred Nzo, to a … A statement of the African National Congress of South Africa…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
… both the All African Convention and the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, Sesedi rejected the boycott … at that time the president of the…
ArchivePaper on apartheid presented on behalf of the African National Congress of South Africa to the United Nations Human Rights Seminar on apartheid, held at Brasilia, Brazil, 23rd August - 5th September 1966
… presented by R M Resha on behalf of the African National Congress of South Africa to the United Nations Human Rights … on apartheid presented on behalf of…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
… Town Peace Council. In 1951 she attended the World Youth Congress in Berlin as a member of a South African delegation … 1955 Sonia Bunting was one of the…
BiographySuliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie
… . He was a branch chairman of the Transvaal Indian Congress in Evaton, and was an accused in the 1956 Treason … 1961, while serving as Secretary of the …
BiographyHoward S. Ngcobo
… a time as a salesman. Active in the Natal African National Congress Youth League in the 1950s, he became a member of the national executive committee of the …
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
… She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s … the 1950s and was instrumental in the…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
… Ismael Pahad was a leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congress . He has four brothers, one of whom is Aziz Pahad , …
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
… involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. In 1958 Jassat was…
BiographyPepsi Mahlangu
… Pepsi Mahlangu was the chairperson of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) in KwaThema, Springs. A member of the African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… Act of 1913. At the time the President of the Transvaal Congress and a National Executive Committee (NEC) member of … I broke out in 1914, Makgatho was…
BiographyNarainsamy Thumbi Naicker
… Attorney prominent in the South African Indian Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of … he served as general secretary of the Natal…
BiographyDr Ahmed Ismail Limbada
… Initially, Limbaba was a member of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). He and Karrim Essack, as members, hoped to influence the Natal Indian Congress (NIC)…
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
… began in 1944, when he joined the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). In 1948 he decided to move to … joined the local branch of the African…
BiographyJ. E. Malepe
… A leader of the African National Congress Youth League during the 1940s, he was elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee…
Sadecque Variava
… among others. When Mewa Ramgobin delivered a paper on the Congress heritage, Variava challenged him for wanting to form an ethnic Indian congress – Ramgobin…
Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Alexander was born on 7 August 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, the third of six children[1]. One of her siblings was Neville Alexander…