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1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… autobiography. Ann-Marie was a member of the ANC’s welfare committee in London from 1988 until 1991. On her return to …

B-0095164

1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… Defence and Aid Fund, as well as the UN Special Committee against Apartheid. In January 1990, Ernest Cole was …

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1881-1951

Pixley ka Isaka Seme

… and shaping policy directions. A faction of the Executive Committee of the Transvaal ANC, led by Kgatla chiefs, accused … of the anti-Seme faction in the…

B-0009017

Madi Gray

… Through Bertil Eger, her partner, she also joined the Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau … worked on special projects with the…

B-0068704

1931-2015

Reggie Vandeyar

… they initiated political classes and established a News Committee. Vandeyar was elected Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee. In 1964, a group from the…

B-0068000

1940

Ela Gandhi

… been arrested. She was a member of the Detainees Support Committee in Durban. Ela's first banning order lasted was … Prison. She was a member of the…

B-0008090

1933-2020

Denis Theodore Goldberg

… daughter Hilary was living on a kibbutz in Israel where a committee had been established to put pressure on the South … for the ANC and also represented it…

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1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

… Party  (SACP), Miles joined the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSAC). She picketed on Saturday mornings and …

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1995

Enver Hassim

… in several positions, including as member of the head committee and the executive of the All Africa Convention, of …

B-0080308

1929-2010

Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews

… Communist Party  (SACP) in 1957 and served on its Central Committee from 1962 until 1970. However, he subsequently … law practice in Gaborone in 1976 where…

B-0008499

1944

Subbiah Moodley

… were Moodley’s passion – he was chairman of the Science Committee and found Einstein’s theory of relativity ‘far more …

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1923-1986

Moses Mabhida

… . Mabhida became a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) around 1956, and in 1958-1959 was acting …

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1952

Bheki Cele

… South African Democratic Teachers Union ( SADTU ) [9] . In 1984 Cele’s political activities caught the attention of the … this time, he served as Chairperson…

B-0151812

1932-2018

Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha

… he served on a number of special committees, including the Committee of Public Accounts from 1970-74. In 1975 Botha was … Dr Mulder enabling P.W. Botha to…

B-0007878

1908-1982

Ellen Phyllis Hellman

… 1954 to 1965. As chairperson of the important Research Committee, she set high standards for precise research and …

B-0008151

1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… Africa. In 2001, he became a member of the Scientific Committee of the Council for the development of Social …

B-0094070

1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… Buthelezi nominated Arenstein as one of his negotiating committee with Pretoria. Thus, Arenstein also served as a …

B-0007794

1892-1956

Manilal Gandhi

… official positions because of time, he served on the committee of the NIC and through Indian Opinion supported the …

B-0008091

1913-1998

Father Trevor Huddleston

… highest award, the Order of Freedom 1 st Class, in 1984. Huddleston also received the Dag Hammerskjold Award for Peace in the same year. In June 1984, in…

B-0008180

1923-1986

Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida

… . Mabhida became a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) around 1956, and in 1958-1959 was acting …

B-0141669

1918

Shapurji Sorabji

… Registration Act. Several young Indians volunteered, and a committee chose Sorabji. He entered the Transvaal on 24 June …

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1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… congress in 1955 and Ronnie was part of the catering committee serving tea and rolls. He joined the underground  … time, he worked representing the COD on…

B-0008914

1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… Ebrahim helped form the South Africa Non Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) in the early 1960s, and was the Acting …

B-0096554

1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… Isaacs resumed his duties as chair of the Education Committee in prison and later the chair of the First Aid … Teacher, Robben Island prisoner, chair of the…

B-0080352

1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… Kearney also addressed the very first Release Mandela Committee meeting in Durban in the early 1980s. With all the …

B-0125558

1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… and their representatives in Johannesburg, the Reform Committee, increased the pressure on Kruger, but the failed …

B-0064847

1948

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

… ·         Mofolo-Plomer Awards, Fools and other stories , 1984 ·         The Noma Award for the Best Book publish in … 1998 – Current ·         Member of…

B-0094715

1939

Marcus Solomon

… served as its librarian and treasurer and on its bursary committee. He met CPSU members such as Peter Meyer, Audrey … Solomon, was an activist in the Cape…

B-0141664

1893-1962

Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma

… more outspoken. In his 1935 statement to an official committee on African education, Xuma accused the Government … abolished the upper House of Chiefs,…

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