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1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… Branch Committee. She earned a living as a hawker. She was one of the leaders against the removals from Cato Manor in 1956, and also one of the leaders of…

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Billy Paddock

… on the Students Representative Council (SRC), becoming one of its Vice-Presidents. Paddock was committed to the … on his position and was considering working…

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1899-1975

Julius Louis Saks

… and the Worshipful Company of spectacle makers, one of the guilds and Liveried Companies established by Royal …

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1930-2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

… at the Springfield Teachers Training College, being part of the first group of teachers to qualify from this … South African Chapter based in Durban. The…

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1918-2002

Wolfie Kodesh

… related to the movement of comrades became evident. He was part of the counter intelligence committee tasked with … Mandela went underground, he spent two…

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Patrick Chamusso

… to red carpet. History always depends on who writes it - one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. … He has also made peace with Sasol, and the…

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1979-2019

Leigh Davids

… She worked to show how gender is not simply related to one’s biological sex but to do with one’s internal sense of identity. In 2018 Leigh was part of an art…

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1867-1946

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

… policies in place to educate and liberate African females. One of Josiah’s fellow-pupils was Charlotte Makanya, who … to personal differences between Gumede…

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1905-1992

Helen Joseph

… African Women (FEDSAW) in the 1950s. In 1955, she was one of the leaders who read out the clauses of the Freedom … of the People. The Women's March on 9…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… Livingstone High School in Claremont , Cape Town. She took part in student politics at Livingstone and was elected to …

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1899-1980

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

… Regina in 1936 and during World War II. Reverend Gawe took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign in 1952, and …

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… and in 1974 the University of Iowa invited him to be a part of the International Writers’ Program. Despite …

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… of South Africa: The Cordoned Heart (which was a part of the exhibition produced by the Second Carnegie …

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1450-1500

Bartolomeu Dias

… João II of Portugal financed Dias’s expedition. Dias took part in Cabral's expedition that discovered Brazil, but … made journeys down the west and east…

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1924-1978

Robert Sobukwe

… Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. His father worked as a municipal labourer and a part-time woodcutter, his mother as a domestic…

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1930-2005

Hamilton Naki

… cleaning cages to more advanced laboratory work. Naki was one of four highly talented technicians in the research … before his death in 2001, and Naki…

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1959

Thandi Modise

… reaction from police. When Modise was shot at by police one day as she was walking down the road, she became … Tanzania . In a camp of four companies, only…

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1940-2013

Adrian Leftwich

… same period through its sabotage campaign. In the early part of 1963 Robert Watson, a student at UCT who had served … anti-guerrilla campaigns, and Leftwich…

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Stanley Silwana

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of … he was jailed for three months in Cape Town after being one of the first…

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he was one of the strongest supporters of the Satyagraha Campaign. … Cachalia's courage. Gandhi himself…

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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and … the GWU decided on arbitration,…

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1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… queues in Athlone as the lorries came and saw that each one got her share without doing herself more. We had to go … locations in certain areas. They were…

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1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

… club that was formed so that its members could help one another and provide social upliftment. This underscored … by virtue of the Suppression of Communism…

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1955-2021

Cecyl Esau

… to listen to broadcasts on shortwave radio and this became one of his hobbies. During the first elections for the … worked as a rural organiser for the UDF…

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1897-1972

Nils Severin Andersen

… been reproduced locally by E Schweikerdt (Pty) Ltd; and one from the collection of King Haakon VII of Norway was … at Durban Art Gallery whiles still a…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… and children whose parents couldn't afford to keep them. One of five siblings, Mulholland was the only one to survive childhood. He then attended Marist…

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1938-2011

Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg

… Party since 1957, and rose through the ranks to become one of its distinguished parliamentarians. Little is known of … his passing away in 2011. During this…

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1925-1968

Patrick Mosell Molaoa

… Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one of the first activists of the African National Congress … in July 1959 he was elected its…

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1953

Ashley La Grange

… two jobs for most of his life. Ashley la Grange was  also one of many photographers that contributed towards the … which allowed him to rent a council flat…

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1932-1968

Benson Tsele

… Rhodesian army. The Um khonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli Detachment, an elite group that had … forces had established bases near the…

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