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1932

Irene Menell (nee Manderstam)

… Menell (nee Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and secondary … and education in Black townships…

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1900-1976

Emil Sachs

… Council (SATLC). In March 1927 he was appointed as the part time Secretary of the Witwatersrand Middlemen Taylors' … especially the role of Sachs in the GWU…

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1924-1960

Ephraim Chaka

… bicycle every day to work. Chaka worked as a block-man at one of the local butcher shops. Ephraim Chaka's bicycle that … the last time he saw his father…

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1957-1980

Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)

… the communities and activists. Jabane and Tsotsobe were part of the unit that carried out one of MK’s most daring operations; an attack on Booysens … was…

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1899-1995

Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana

… and journalist. In 1926 he joined the CPSA, becoming one of its most loyal African adherents in the years that … from 1945, of Inkululeko, the Communist…

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1945-2025

Theresa Solomon

… several civic organisations, which eventually merged into one umbrella civic organisation, the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee (CAHAC). CAHAC was one of…

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1957-2006

Monty Johannes Motloung

… in the use of explosives and military combat. He was part of a group of ten, prepared for operations in the …

B-0008669

1880-1919

Cecilia Makiwane

… the first black professional nurse. In 1912, Makiwane took part in what was probably the first women’s anti-pass …

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1906-1996

Laduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela

… collation of his texts into a Bantubibel in 1977 in part addresses Christianity and its rejection of traditional …

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1936

Luli Callinicos

… youth, and wrote several protest letters to newspapers as part of a concerted campaign after the banning of the African …

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Robert Moffat

… He went to other regions as far as the Ndebele Kingdom, part of modern-day Zimbabwe. Some of his experiences in the …

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1927-2013

Francois Roux

… chalk and charcoal. From 1970 to 1978, Roux served as a part time lecturer in painting at the Cape Technikon and …

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2013

Ephraim Nkwe

… that they were free and would not be detained.  Nkwe was part of a SAYCO delegation that visited the African National …

B-0095834

1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… work at an architect’s office, while studying architecture part-time at the University of the Witwatersrand. After …

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1953

Fanie Jason

… the Kumbh Mela religious festival. Jason has taken part in various exhibitions nationally and internationally …

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… (WASA)], he was served with a three year banning order as part of a government crackdown on the media. Sisulu was a …

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1925

Gertrude Shope

… Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to boycott Bantu Education . She moved …

B-0068449

1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… South Africa in 1918, at the age of 12, from India. He was one of six children, with two sisters, Zubeida and Aysha and … that they join in order to…

B-0068942

1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… through high school and all nine trained to be teachers. One is a professor of English at Harvard University, United … passes. This was the first decisive…

B-0068743

1940

James Edward April

… , Barney Desai and Duma Nokwe from the ANC. April was part of a small group that left for Czechoslovakia in June … to travel south. The plan was for two…

B-0007792

1944

Kaizer Motaung

… and his former team Atlanta Chiefs. Kaizer Chiefs is now one of the biggest teams in the country. Motaung also … His first son, Thabo, died in 2012. He was…

B-0096409

1906-1999

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)

… caste connotations, and became known as Dr Goonam. During one of her visits, a child allegedly remarked “Oh mummy, the … became involved in the Natal Indian…

B-0008116

1931-1994

Lucas Ted Sithole

… up in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was one of ten sons of a Zulu lay priest in the Zion Christian … himself Ted or Teddy, a name reflected…

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1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… were impressed by Milner's intensity, whereas he for his part immediately understood the fundamental unity of South … protests against their exclusion from…

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1952-2004

Sipho Gumede

… this on his new label, Sheer Sound . In 1999 Sipho formed part of the backing band during American jazz pianist Joe … – Humanity From Me to You Blues for my…

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1957

Cedric Nunn

… Will Separate Us) held in Bern in 1983. In 1994 he was part of a team of photographers documenting South Africa’s … – A series of portraits of young parents…

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Myron Peter

… in the nearby coloured township of Wentworth. The ASH was part of the county wide initiative of black activists in the … spearheaded by the Black Community…

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Boy Mvemve

… he too still wonders to this day. Sisulu reckons that one reason they were both not blown to pieces could have had … hurt them more than the bomb itself…

B-0149403

1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

… to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. In … she loved and of the people she met. The…

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1920-1973

Robert M. Resha

… that he was a particularly active member of the ANC and one of the leading activists in the Sophiatown Anti-Removal … is busy creating situations of divide…

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